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Brighton is a town in Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada, [1] approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi) east of Toronto and 100 km (62 mi) west of Kingston. It is traversed by both Highway 401 and the former Highway 2 .
Presqu'ile Provincial Park is a park in southeastern Northumberland County on the north shore of Lake Ontario near the town of Brighton in Ontario, Canada. [3] The park occupies an area of 9.37 km 2 (3.62 sq mi).
Ernestown, Ontario's station is boarded up and abandoned. Brighton's station is Memory Junction. Little remains of the Kingston, Ontario outer station ruins but the exterior limestone shell. Two original stations on the Toronto-Sarnia line still stand, of which one (the Georgetown GO station) remains in passenger use.
William Wilson Webb (28 July 1827 - June 30, 1894) [1] was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Northumberland East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal member from 1871 to 1874. Webb was born near Colborne in Upper Canada, the son of an Irish immigrant.
The schooner or gunboat HMS Speedy sank in a snowstorm in Lake Ontario south of the future site of Brighton, Ontario, and west of Prince Edward County, on 8 October 1804, with the loss of all hands. The sinking changed the course of Canadian history because of the prominence of the citizens of the tiny colony of Upper Canada lost in the ...
East Northumberland Secondary School (ENSS) is a secondary school in Brighton, Ontario, Canada. The school was the topic of a song performed by Miley Cyrus called "East Northumberland High", written by ENSS graduate Samantha Moore. [1]
On July 9, 1930, the Department of Highways, predecessor to the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, assumed the 32 km (20 mi), [2] gravel-surfaced Brighton–Campbellford Road. [7] Unemployment relief measures carried out in 1931 and 1932 resulted in the construction of Highway 7 between Peterborough and Ottawa . [ 8 ]
The Brighton Applefest was created in 1975 by the merchants of Brighton, Ontario, Canada to promote the Brighton area, and the apple-based culture around it. [1] In 2020 and 2021, the festival was cancelled due to Covid-19. [2] [3] It returned in 2022. It is now Brighton's largest yearly event, taking place annually during the last full week of ...