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It was called Sayles' Mills, Sovereign's Mills, Lodersville; the name was changed to Waterford when a post-office opened around 1826. [57] Waterford became the northernmost marketplace in Norfolk County; complementing Simcoe as its center marketplace. [56] The village would become incorporated in 1878 when its population reached 1100 people. [56]
The Heritage Village is an open-air museum that includes restored or reconstructed buildings and structures, including the 19th century Backhouse Homestead, Backhouse Mill, church, carriage shop, barn with agriculture equipment, drive shed with buggies and wagons, two log houses, schoolhouse, saw mill and farm and 19th century industrial equipment.
East Windsor is a neighbourhood that lies immediately east of Downtown and Walkerville areas but not as far east as Riverside neighbourhood. It borders Walker Road to the west, where the Windsor station (Ontario) is located at its northwestern tip, and Tecumseh Road East to the south. The eastern border is an S-curve that starts around Pillette ...
The village would become incorporated in 1878 when its population reached 1100 people. [ 4 ] Settlement of this area, with rich soil and large forests, within Townsend Township, started in 1794, and by 1782 Paul Averill was operating saw and grist-mills on Nanticoke Creek.
Toby Barrett, was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the district of Haldimand—Norfolk, where Port Dover is located, from 1995 until 2022, and is part of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. [39] Eddie Sargent was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1963–1987, and part of the Liberal Party of Ontario.
Simcoe is an unincorporated community and former town in Southwestern Ontario, Canada near Lake Erie.It is the county seat and largest community of Norfolk County. [1] Simcoe is at the junction of Highway 3, at Highway 24, due south of Brantford, and accessible to Hamilton by nearby Highway 6.
Riverside is a neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Windsor, Ontario. It is best defined by the waterfront road, Riverside Drive, which runs parallel to the Detroit River . The western boundary is approximately Westminster Boulevard running easterly to Rendezvous Shores and the Windsor/Tecumseh town line.
Until the E.C. Row Expressway was completed in the early 1980s, Highway 18 followed Sandwich Street (pictured here passing beneath the Ambassador Bridge).. Highway 18 was an 76.0-kilometre (47.2 mi) route that travelled along or near the shoreline of the Detroit River and Lake Erie between Windsor and Leamington in Southwestern Ontario. [4]