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Beaverton was first settled in 1822. It was called Calder's Mills (after an early miller Duncan Miller and Alexander Calder), Mill Town and Milton until it was renamed Beaverton when the post office was opened in 1835. By 1869, Beaverton was a village with a population of 700 in the Township of Thorah Township in Ontario County.
The Village of Beaverton, originally part of the township, was incorporated as a separate municipality in 1884. Part of the Trent–Severn Waterway was constructed through the northern portion of the Township and opened in 1907.
The Midland Railway of Canada was a historical Canadian railway which ran from Port Hope, Ontario to Midland on Georgian Bay.The line was originally intended to run to Peterborough, but the competing Cobourg and Peterborough Railway was completed in 1854 and the owner's plans changed.
Brock is a township in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada. Brock Township is also a former municipality and geographic township prior to the amalgamation that formed the current municipality. The Trent–Severn Waterway forms part of the northern border of the municipality, which enters Lake Simcoe through Ramara Township ...
The third tornado, an F0, touched down near Beaverton, Ontario, and moved through Rice Lake, Ontario. [261] A fourth tornado, an F1, moved through Hastings, Ontario. [262] A fifth probable tornado struck Otonabee Township, Ontario, resulting in significant damage to buildings, destroyed crops, and killed livestock. [263]
Malcolm Bethune became the minister of Knox Church in 1889 and, a year later, his son Norman was born in the manse. The Bethune family remained in Gravenhurst until 1893, when they moved to Beaverton, Ontario. Thereafter, the house was occupied by a succession of ministers.
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Built by United Empire Loyalist settlers, it is the oldest surviving Methodist building in Canada and is associated with the role played by Methodists in Upper Canada’s early development; a significant element of the history of the United Church of Canada: Old Stone Church [115] 1853 (completed) 1991 Beaverton