Cramahe, Ontario
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Cramahe is a rural township located in Northumberland County in southern Ontario, Canada. It is situated just off Ontario Highway 401 approximately 140 km East of Toronto. It was named for Hector Theophilus de Cramahé, who was Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec. The township's seat and largest town is Colborne.
History
Joseph Keeler opened a store on the site of present-day Colborne about 1819. A community began to grow as other small businessmen followed suit. With the opening of harbour facilities in the 1840s and the arrival of the railway in 1840, Colborne became an important service centre for the region.[1] Cramahe was incorporated as a township in 1850. In 1858, the Village of Colborne seceded from the township as a separate municipality. On January 1, 2001, both municipalities were reamalgamated to form an expanded Township of Cramahe.[2]
Communities
The township of Cramahe comprises a number of communities, including the following communities:
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- Banford Station
- Browns Corners
- Castleton
- Colborne
- Dundonald
- East Colborne
- Edville
- Greenleys Corners
- Griffis Corners
- Loughbreeze
- Morganston
- Ogden Point
- Purdy Corners
- Salem
- Shiloh
- Spencer Point
- Tubbs Corners
- Victoria Beach
- Victoria Park
Colborne
Originally named Keeler's Creek, Colborne (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) is the largest and main population centre of the township. It was named after Sir John Colborne, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, by Joseph Abbott Keeler in 1829. Colborne was incorporated as a village in 1858 with a population of approximately 700 people. In 2001, Colborne and Cramahe Township were amalgamated as part of municipal restructuring to form an expanded Township of Cramahe. At the time of dissolution, Colborne Village had a population of 2,040 over an area of Script error: No such module "convert"..[3]
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Demographics
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Mother tongue according to the 2021 Canadian census:[6]
- English as first language: 94.6%
- French as first language: 0.9%
- English and French as first language: 0.2%
- Other as first language: 3.5%
Notable people
- Israel Wood Powell - Colborne born Member of The House of Assembly of Vancouver Island and British Columbia's First Superintendent of Indian Affairs
- Marcus A. Kemp - Colborne born member of the Wisconsin State Senate
- Charles Smith Rutherford - Colborne born recipient of the Victoria Cross for actions at the Battle of the Scarpe during the First World War
- William Arthur Steel
- Ed Greenwood
See also
References
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External links
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- Visit Cramahe
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