Wellington, Ontario

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Wellington
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Wellington
Location in southern Ontario
Coordinates: 43°57′08″N77°21′02″W / 43.95222°N 77.35056°W / 43.95222; -77.35056 [1]
CountryCanada
Province Ontario
County Prince Edward
Government
  Mayor (of county)Steve Ferguson
   MP, Prince Edward—Hastings Shelby Kramp Neuman
   MPP, Prince Edward—Hastings Todd Smith
Area
  Total
7.02 km2 (2.71 sq mi)
Elevation
[2]
78 m (256 ft)
Population
 (2016)
  Total
1,932
  Density280/km2 (710/sq mi)
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern Time Zone)
  Summer (DST) UTC-4 (Eastern Time Zone)
Postal codes in Canada
K0K 3L0
Area codes 613, 343
Website prince-edward-county.com/wellington/

Wellington is an unincorporated place and community in Prince Edward County in eastern Ontario, Canada. It has a population of 1,932 according to the 2016 Census. [3] The community is located on the shore of both Lake Ontario and West Lake in the southwest of the county. Sandbanks Beach, the northernmost of Sandbanks Provincial Park's beaches, is located in the Village of Wellington, where it is called Wellington Rotary Beach.

Contents

It is separated from the Sandbanks Provincial Park by a canal through the beach to Wellington Harbour.

Demographics

Canada census – Wellington, Ontario community profile
2016 2011
Population1932 (+3.9% from 2011)1860 (+2.9% from 2006)
Land area7.02 km2 (2.71 sq mi)6.99 km2 (2.70 sq mi)
Population density275.4/km2 (713/sq mi)265.9/km2 (689/sq mi)
Median age64.8 (M: 65.4, F: 64.3)62.2 (M: 62.1, F: 62.3)
Private dwellings1074 (total) 1008 (total) 
Median household income$61824
References: 2016 [4] 2011 [5]

History

Daniel Reynolds' House, c. 1786 or 1792 Daniel Reynolds House - Wellington ON.jpg
Daniel Reynolds' House, c. 1786 or 1792

Prince Edward County's first non-indigenous resident, Daniel Reynolds, first colonized the area in the 18th century and settled in Wellington, where his house remains today along Main Street. [8] Reynolds was nicknamed "Old Smoke" by local First Nations, hence the community was first known as Smoke Ville. When a post office was established in the 1830s, the village was renamed Wellington after the Duke of Wellington.

Arts and Culture

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Child at Play on Wellington Beach

The Wellington Heritage Museum is located in the heart of the village, and was built in 1885 as a Quaker Meeting House. A key exhibit is the Douglas A. Crawford Canning Industry Collection, as more than 75 canning factories operated in Prince Edward County from 1882 to 1996. [9]

Attractions

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Patio at the Drake Devonshire

The Wellington Farmers' Market [10] is the largest open-air market in the region, and is open from Victoria Day to Labour Day.

The Toronto boutique hotelier The Drake Hotel opened a location in Wellington in the fall of 2014. [11]

Sports

The Wellington Dukes of the Ontario Junior Hockey League (Junior A) play at the Essroc Arena (capacity 1,600), part of the Wellington and District Community Centre. [12] The Prince Edward County Minor Baseball Association plays all its games in Wellington, [13] and the rep teams of the Quinte Royals Baseball Club (Midget and Minor Midget age group teams) play their homes games at the Wellington Field of Dreams. [14] [ failed verification ] There is also a skating club [15] and an equestrian centre [16] in the community.

Infrastructure

Transportation

The main road in the community is County Road 33 (formerly Ontario Highway 33), known as the Loyalist Parkway. The road goes northwest to Trenton (part of Quinte West) and east to Picton.

The Prince Edward County Railway from Picton to Trenton ran through the community. It was opened in 1879, was extended to form the Central Ontario Railway in 1882, became part of the Canadian National Railway in 1923, and operated until 1985. The route through the community today forms a rail trail portion of the Millennium Trail.

Education

English language public elementary education from JK to Grade 8 is offered at C.M.L. Snider Public School in the Hastings & Prince Edward District School Board. [17] Students must travel to nearby schools in Belleville for separate school French Immersion education, or to Picton for French-language public elementary education. Both Belleville and Quinte West are about 25 minutes by car north of Wellington. Picton is about 20 minutes east of Wellington.

Secondary students travel to Prince Edward Collegiate in Picton for English language public secondary education, or to Bayside Secondary School in Quinte West for French Immersion public secondary education.

Media

Since 1992, the community has been served by the independent Wellington Times newspaper. The paper is available at over 50 retail locations across the County, and has a circulation of approximately 4,000. [18]

Notable people

References

  1. "Wellington". Geographical Names Data Base . Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 2016-02-10.
  2. Taken from Google Earth. Accessed 2016-02-12.
  3. Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (2017-02-08). "Census Profile, 2016 Census - Wellington, Retired population centre [Designated place], Ontario and Ontario [Province]". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
  4. "2016 Community Profiles". 2016 Canadian census . Statistics Canada. August 12, 2021. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
  5. "2011 Community Profiles". 2011 Canadian census . Statistics Canada. March 21, 2019. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  6. Kornwolf, James D.; Kornwolf, Professor James D.; Kornwolf, Georgiana Wallis (2002). Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America. ISBN   9780801859861.
  7. Brown, Ron (31 May 2010). From Queenston to Kingston: The Hidden Heritage of Lake Ontario's Shoreline. ISBN   9781459704787.
  8. "Daniel Reynolds House (c. 1799) – Wellington". Prince Edward County. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
  9. "Wellington Heritage Museum". Prince Edward County. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  10. "Wellington Farmers' market". Archived from the original on 2022-08-16. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
  11. Dixon, Guy (2014-09-14). "The Drake Devonshire – a hip country outpost". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  12. "Arena". Wellington Dukes. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  13. "About Us". Prince Edward County Minor Baseball Association. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  14. "Quinte Royals Baseball". Archived from the original on 2019-01-12.
  15. "Prince Edward County Skating Club" . Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  16. "Haderway Farms" . Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  17. "C.M.L. Snider School". Hastings & Prince Edward District School Board. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  18. "About". The Time. Retrieved 2016-02-12.