Alma, Ontario
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Alma is an unincorporated rural community in Mapleton Township, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada.[1][2]
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 Script error: No such module "convert". 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
- James Scarth Gale (1863 – 1937), Presbyterian missionary, educator and Bible translator in Korea.[12]
- George Alexander McQuibban (1886 – 1937), physician and member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. McQuibban lived in Alma and had a practice there.[13]
Gallery
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Alma, 1910
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Houses on Peel Street, 1910
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Alma, 2017
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Historic locomotive near the former railroad station
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