George's Brook-Milton, Newfoundland and Labrador

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Coordinates: 48°13′00.35″N53°57′43.27″W / 48.2167639°N 53.9620194°W / 48.2167639; -53.9620194 Coordinates: 48°13′00.35″N53°57′43.27″W / 48.2167639°N 53.9620194°W / 48.2167639; -53.9620194
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Time zone UTC-3:30 (Newfoundland Time)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-2:30 (Newfoundland Daylight)
Area code(s) 709
Highways NL Route 230A.svg Route 230A
NL Route 231.svg Route 231

Milton is a small town and former service district on Smith Sound, Trinity Bay, in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Formerly a logging village, it is situated on the shores of the inner reaches of Smith Sound the community is on Route 230A, which starts at Clarenville and continues to the intersection at Route 230.

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History

The community was originally settled in 1868 after two previous "wintering-over" by Wm. James Adams and his four sons and three of his four daughters. They came to the area from Old Perlican on the east side of Trinity Bay. Originally named King's Cove, it changed its name to Milton (it is believed after the poet John Milton) in the 1920s. It has always been a logging town and at its height in the 1930s possessed four water-powered and 8 gas-powered saw mills. The only remnants of its logging history is found in the name of the small brook that runs through the town called THE SAW PIT BROOK". At another point in its history it was also a siding for the branch railway line to Bonivista. This element was run by Mr. Herbert Adams.

The family was originally settled by this Adams clan (who descended from the Scottish Highlands) and descendants of these four brothers are still scattered throughout the community to this day. The community has seen 6 generations of the family make its home here.

Other industries that have existed here were a Brick Manufacturing plant (the only one in NL until its closure in the 1970s). It was also the starting point of the cross country explored Wm Epps Cormack and his traveling companion Joseph Sylvester where they began their trek across the provinces interior in 1832.

Most importantly, a series of "transatlantic cables have in the past landed in the general area (the first telegraph cable was landed at Heart's Content in 1866 and the first international telephone cable in Clarenville in 1955). [1] The current Greenland Connect cable landed in Milton itself in 2009, connecting Eastlink network to Greenland and thence to far Northern European network exchange points via Iceland. It provides an alternative to the more southerly Hibernia Atlantic cable from Halifax or Emerald Express and is on a route that could in theory connect to Russian or Far Eastern destinations via Arctic great circles, to complete a global transocean fibre loop.

Incorporation

In 2017,George's Brook and Milton voted in favor of joining to incorporating into the town of George's Brook-Milton. [2] The provincial government approved the incorporation in 2018. [3]

Today the community functions as a bedroom community to the Clarenville area. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20160523184710/http://www.thetelegram.com/Living/2009-09-09/article-1441185/TELE-Greenland-opens-transatlantic-fibre-optic-cable-station-in-Milton/1
  2. ↑ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/george-brook-milton-town-vote-1.4128910 [ bare URL ]
  3. ↑ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/georges-brook-milton-incorporated-request-town-1.4501615 [ bare URL ]
  4. ↑ "History of Milton". Unofficial Clarenville and Area Website. Kevin Elliott. Archived from the original on 2013-04-21. Retrieved 20 April 2020.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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