Alma, Ontario

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Alma
Unincorporated rural community
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Alma (Ontario)
Coordinates: 43°43′49″N80°30′08″W / 43.73028°N 80.50222°W / 43.73028; -80.50222 Coordinates: 43°43′49″N80°30′08″W / 43.73028°N 80.50222°W / 43.73028; -80.50222
Country Canada
Province Ontario
County Wellington
Township Mapleton
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
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Alma is an unincorporated rural community in Mapleton Township, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. [1] [2]

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History

Pioneers began settling along the Elora Saugeen Road, which forms the main street of Alma, during the 1840s. [3]

Alexander MacCrea and his wife settled here in 1848, and built a store. The "MacCrae's Corners" post office was established in 1854, and MacCrae was postmaster. [4] [5]

In 1854, the settlement's name was changed from MacCrae's Corners to "Alma", after the Battle of Alma. [3]

James Ledingham and his family moved to Alma in 1864, and built a saw and chopping mill. [6]

In 1865, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church was established in Alma. The church moved to a new stone church in Alma in 1892. [3]

The Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railway built a line through Alma in 1870. [4] The line was eventually taken over by Canadian National Railway, and was abandoned in 1983. [7] The Alma railroad station has since been destroyed. [8]

After the railway was constructed, Alma became "a bustling service centre for the local settlers and travellers". [5] Alma was noted for having a post office, wagon maker, weaver, telegraph office, shoemaker, grist mill, several saw mills, several stores, three churches, and four hotels. In 1879, the population was 250. [5] [9]

Wallace Cummings Park in Alma was constructed in 2003 on 25 ha (62 acres) of donated land. The park features a playground, walking trail, toboggan hill, picnic shelter, community hall, wetland boardwalk, and garden labyrinth. [10]

Education

Alma Public School, part of the Upper Grand District School Board, is located in Alma. [11]

Notable people

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References

  1. 1 2 "Alma". Natural Resources Canada. October 6, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Mapleton". Statistics Canada. November 2, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 "About". St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. Retrieved April 16, 2017.
  4. 1 2 "Alma". Rural Routes Ontario. March 29, 2009.
  5. 1 2 3 Campbell, Jean (September 11, 2015). "Alma". Drayton Community News.
  6. ↑ "Biographical Sketches of Early Settlers of Wellington County". Wellington County GenWeb. Retrieved April 16, 2017.
  7. ↑ "The Wellington, Grey & Bruce Railway". Trainweb. December 30, 1997.
  8. ↑ Brown, Ron (2016). Dundurn Railroad 6-Book Bundle. Dundurn. ISBN   9781459736818.
  9. ↑ The County of Wellington Gazetteer and Directory for 1879-80. Armstrong & Delion. 1879. p. 89.
  10. ↑ "Labyrinth & Memory Arboretum Project". Labyrinth Planning Committee. Archived from the original on May 30, 2017. Retrieved April 16, 2017.
  11. ↑ "Alma Public School". Township of Mapleton. Retrieved April 16, 2017.[ permanent dead link ]
  12. ↑ Han, Peter (April 1, 2014). "Sent By God". Presbyterian Record.
  13. ↑ "News". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 36 (3): 324–330. March 1937. PMC   1562069 .
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