Timeline of Port Dover, Ontario history

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This is a timeline of the history of Port Dover, Ontario, Canada.

Contents

Timeline

Early history

20th Century

21st Century

2000s

  • October 13, 2000 – The first Friday the 13th celebrations for motorcycle riders in the 21st century was held on this date.
  • 2001 – Nanticoke and all other municipalities within the region were dissolved and the region was divided into two single tier municipalities with city-status but called counties.
  • May 15, 2001 – The decimated youth demographics of Port Dover start to endanger the future of Port Dover Composite School. [10]
  • 2004 – The Stanley Cup came to Port Dover (with Jassen Cullimore) when the 2003–04 Tampa Bay Lightning won the Cup. He was the fourth NHL player to present the Stanley Cup to this small hockey town on the shore of Lake Erie. [11]
  • 2005 – The Canadian Coast Guard stationed the Cape-class motor lifeboat CCGS Cape Lambton in the community. [12]
  • May 2006 – A boom in wind turbines begins throughout Norfolk County. [13] Plans to build wind turbines in the Port Dover area by 2013 were eventually eliminated by a county-wide ban.
  • 2009 – Certain segments of the American horror film Survival of the Dead were filmed here in Port Dover. [14]
  • March 4, 2009 – U.S. Steel announced the closure of the Stelco Lake Erie Works in Nanticoke, Ontario due to the increasingly worse effects of the global economic slowdown. [15] While it may have decreased the local pollution levels, the lockout has affected at least 12,000 Canadian jobs; leaving people with little or no disposable income to spend on consumer items.

2010s

  • April 23, 2010 – Stelco Lake Erie Works finally re-opened after the eight-month lockout; bringing back approximately 1100 people into the company. [16] Approximately 400 people never got their jobs back at the steel mill simply because they were either too old, moved on to other careers, turned to welfare, or went back to college.
  • Summer 2010 – Most other local jobs lost during the global recession of the period were eventually restored; resulting in a major drop in the local unemployment rate for the summer of 2010. [17]
  • January 31, 2013 – Port Dover Composite School was official closed on this day due to government cutbacks and demographics issues. The Canada 2011 Census reported that there are 1,800 fewer children and teenagers in the Port Dover area as opposed to the Canada 2001 Census. [10]
  • April 15, 2013 – The union vote ratification for Stelco Lake Erie Works is set to expire on this date. [18] [19] This brought 12,000 Canadian jobs into immediate danger as they were through most of 2009 and 2010.
  • April 28, 2013 – Negotiations between the President of USW Local Union 8782 and the Director of Human Resources of U.S. Steel Canada failed; resulting in a lockout that prevented all Stelco employees from working. [20]
  • May 14, 2013 – Norfolk County has banned the placement of new wind turbines; county official feared the region becoming "industrialized" and "unnatural" within the course of 100 years. [21] Wind turbines built before 2013 are permitted to stay until they no longer function properly.
  • June 13, 2013 – Despite the lockout at Stelco Lake Erie Works, 2600 people have officially joined the workforce between June 2012 and June 2013 in Norfolk County. Increasing reliance on the economy of the Greater Toronto Area and the globalized economy at large has served to slowly bring Port Dover residents (along with other Norfolk County residents) back into the workforce. [22]
  • September 1, 2013 – 71% of voting union members at the Stelco Lake Erie Works appeased to the company's way of thinking and signed a five-year contract that would guarantee work until September 1, 2018. While basic salaries have remained the same, there has been a cut in vacation premiums that allowed them to get paid while on vacation. [23]
  • September 5, 2013 – The old PDCS building was converted into an elementary school called Lakewood Public School. They begin to receive their first batch of students from grade 1 through grade 8. [24]
  • September 1, 2018 – The current collective bargaining agreement for Stelco Lake Erie Works expires on this date. Union members may sign another CBA or go on lockout pending an authorized union vote. [23]

References

  1. "The Founding of Port Dover". Ontario's Historical Plaques. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
  2. "The history of the War of 1812". The official war of 1812 bicentennial site. Archived from the original on 2010-02-07.
  3. Gilbert Collins (2006). Guidebook to the Historic Sites of the War of 1812. Dundurn. ISBN   9781550026269 . Retrieved 2010-01-05.
  4. "Robert Nichol, c. 1774–1824" (PDF). Ontario Heritage Trust. 2009-09-24. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-15.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Dover's changing times [ permanent dead link ] at InPortDover.com
  6. Simcoe Composite School and Norfolk County 1969–72 (Pentax SV / 50mm f1.8 lens) at PBase
  7. Assel, Raymond A. (1980). "Maximum Freezing Degree-Days as a Winter Severity Index for the Great Lakes, 1897–1977". Monthly Weather Review. 108 (9). American Meteorological Society: 1440–1445. doi: 10.1175/1520-0493(1980)108<1440:MFDDAA>2.0.CO;2 . ISSN   1520-0493.
  8. Canadian Geographic . June 1980.{{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. "CanLII – 1985 CanLII 69 (S.C.C.)". Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII.org). 2009-09-03. Retrieved 2009-09-24.
  10. 1 2 "PDCS will close at end of semester". The Simcoe Reformer. Archived from the original on 2013-10-02. Retrieved 2012-10-21.
  11. "Stanley Cup Journals 2004: 37". Hockey Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2006-07-27.
  12. Theresa Nichols (2005-08-11). "Lloyd St. Amand Announces the Dedication of the Cape Lambton in Port Dover Ontario". Canadian Coast Guard. Archived from the original on 2012-03-06.
  13. Wind Power in Ontario Archived 2014-08-10 at the Wayback Machine at IESO.ca
  14. "Survival of the Dead: Uncle Creepy's Pictorial Diary of the Dead". DreadCentral. 12 September 2012.
  15. Powell, Naomi (4 Mar 2009). "Stelco's Hamilton and Lake Erie plants idled". The Toronto Star. Hamilton. Archived from the original on June 16, 2010. Retrieved 25 May 2010.
  16. Steel Market Update (15 April 2010). "USW Ratifies Contract with U.S. Steel". Archived from the original on 2011-08-09. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
  17. Daniel Pearce (July 2010). "Major drop in Norfolk unemployment rate". Simcoe Reformer. Archived from the original on March 25, 2012. Retrieved March 14, 2012.
  18. "Stelco ratification confirmed". Steel Market Update. 15 Apr 2010. Archived from the original on 2011-06-09. Retrieved 31 May 2011.
  19. "U.S. Steel ends lockout at Ontario plant". The Canadian Press. CBC News. 16 Apr 2010. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
  20. Jodi L. Koch (U.S. Steel Canada). "Signed Letter of Intent to Lock Out" (PDF). Retrieved 31 August 2012.
  21. "Norfolk Seeks End to Turbine Development" . Retrieved 2013-05-15.
  22. Daniel Pearce (June 2013). "Optimism being felt in Norfolk". Simcoe Reformer. Retrieved June 13, 2013.
  23. 1 2 Steelworkers head back to work after agreeing to five-year deal with U.S. Steel Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine at the Brantford Expositor
  24. Celebrating a new adventure at Lakewood Elementary Archived 2013-12-12 at the Wayback Machine at Grand Erie District School Board