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Brussels is a community in Huron County, Ontario, Canada, located within the municipality of Huron East. It was originally called Ainleyville. The name was changed in 1872 when a branch line of the Grand Trunk Railway from Guelph came through the town. Brussels has seen the population grow over the years, in 1954, the population was 827.
Zurich, Ontario, is a community in southwestern Ontario, Canada, in the Municipality of Bluewater in Huron County, about six kilometres inland from Lake Huron, on Ontario's west coast. Zurich was founded in 1856 and is known for its Swiss heritage, reflected in some of the architecture. They have four churches of various denominations, a large community centre, a general store, a hardware store, a Case Tractor dealership, St. Boniface Elementary School, and a Liquor Control Board of Ontario retail store.
The Maitland River is a river in Huron County, Perth County and Wellington County in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. The river is in the Great Lakes Basin and empties into Lake Huron at the town of Goderich. It is 150 kilometres (93 mi) long, and is named after Sir Peregrine Maitland, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada from 1818 to 1828. It was formerly known as the Menesetung River.
Huron—Bruce is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1953.
The London District was a historic district in Upper Canada. It was formed in 1798 from parts of the Home and Western Districts, and lasted until its abolition in 1850.
The Cass River is a 61.5-mile-long (99.0 km) river in the Thumb region of the U.S. state of Michigan. It drains large portions of Sanilac and Tuscola counties and smaller portions of Genesee, Huron, Lapeer, and Saginaw counties.
Hensall is a community in Bluewater, Ontario, Canada with a population of 1,173. It is located in the centre of Huron County's agricultural land, and is home to three large processing facilities: Thompsons Limited, Hensall Co-op and Cook's Division of Parrish & Heimbecker Ltd., where thousands of tons of beans are annually processed, packaged and shipped worldwide.
The Township of Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh is a municipality in Huron County, Ontario, Canada. It was formed as an amalgamation of the former Ashfield, Colborne and West Wawanosh townships in 2001, in an Ontario-wide local government restructuring imposed by the government of that time. The three former townships now comprise the wards of the amalgamated municipality.
The Huron Historic Gaol was established as the Huron County Gaol for Upper Canada's Huron District. Clearing of the land began in Goderich, Ontario in 1839 and the jail was constructed between 1839 and 1842 using stone from the Maitland River Valley and from Michigan. The octagonal jail was designed by Thomas Young, modelled after Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon design for prison construction, common in mid-19th century Britain and North America.
Molesworth is a small community located in the town of Huron East in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Molesworth was founded in 1852 by John Mitchell and his family, who operated a general store which served the influx of settlers to the area. Mitchell also acted as Justice of the peace.
Donnybrook was a village in the southwestern part of the Canadian province of Ontario.
Egmondville is a historic former village now part of the community of Seaforth in the municipality of Huron East, in Huron County, Ontario, Canada. The community was founded in 1845 by Constant Van Egmond (1808-1884), the eldest son of Anthony Van Egmond and named in honour of his father.
Ethel is a hamlet located in northern Huron County, Ontario, Canada and has a population of nearly two hundred. It is in the municipality of Huron East in Grey Township. Ethel is home to the Grey Township Fire Department, the Ethel Community Hall, the former Ethel United Church, Ethel Mennonite Church, the Ethel Ball Park and North Woods Elementary School.
Wroxeter, Ontario is a community in Howick Township, part of Huron County.
Kingsbridge, Ontario is a small rural community in southwestern Ontario within the municipality of Ashfield–Colborne–Wawanosh in Huron County. It is approximately 22 kilometres north of Goderich on the Bluewater Highway where it intersects with Kingsbridge Line. The area around Kingsbridge was settled in 1839 by Irish immigrants from County Kerry, Ireland. During the 1840s and 1850s many more Irish families, mostly from Kerry, although some from Counties Clare, Cork, and Tipperary, settled in the vicinity. Kingsbridge was named for John King, who constructed a bridge in the area in the 1850s. The community's primary landmarks include St. Joseph's Church, an elementary school, and the former St. Joseph's convent. The community overlooks Lake Huron and is surrounded by rich farmland.
St. Augustine is a community in the municipality of Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh, Huron County, Ontario. St. Augustine is east of Dungannon, south of St. Helens and north of Auburn.
McGaw is a ghost town in the municipality of Ashfield–Colborne–Wawanosh in Huron County, south of Carlow, Ontario, Canada.
Walton Raceway is an off road vehicle motorsport park located just outside the hamlet of Walton, part of the Municipality of Huron East in Huron County Ontario, Canada. It is on a 200-acre site which includes several ponds, wetlands, reforested areas, hardwood forest, rolling hills and an agricultural acreage owned by the Lee family since 1965.
Cranbrook is a community and unincorporated area in the municipality of Huron East, Huron County in southwestern Ontario, Canada, It is located at the intersection of McNabb Line and Cranbrook Road in geographic Grey Township.
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