Clifford, Ontario
Template:Use Canadian English Script error: No such module "Settlement short description".Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".Expression error: Unexpected < operator. Clifford is an unincorporated community in the Town of Minto in Wellington County in Southwestern Ontario, Canada.[1] It is on Ontario Highway 9 and Coon Creek, a stream in the Saugeen River drainage basin.
The village of Clifford was founded around 1855 as Minto Village.[2] After the opening of the post office in 1856, the settlement was renamed Clifford by the first postmaster Francis Brown after Clifford in West Yorkshire, England. Clifford was incorporated as a village in 1873. In 1999, Clifford was amalgamated with Palmerston, Harriston and Minto Township to create Minto.
The first telephones in the community were installed in 1890 by Bell Canada.[2] Wightman Telecom, based in Clifford and owned by the Wightman family, has owned and operated a communication system in Clifford since 1908, with a telephone system that was originally operated out of a kitchen in Howick Township. Wightman bought out Bell's operations in Clifford, Ayton and Neustadt in 1928. The firm continues to operate the system since March 2016[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"..[2][3]
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Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Clifford had a population of 875 living in 377 of its 389 total private dwellings, a change of Script error: No such module "Percentage". from its 2016 population of 823. With a land area of Template:Cvt, it had a population density of Template:Pop density in 2021.[5]
Notable people
Athletes
- John Kruspe (1944 – ), professional Canadian football player for the Montreal Alouettes, Ottawa Rough Riders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League
Musicians
- Tara Dettman (???? – ), music artist and songwriter known for the song King Of My Heart, nominated in 2006 at the GMA Canada Covenant Awards
Politicians
- Absalom Shade Allan (1843 – 1928), represented Wellington West in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1886 – 1894
- Arnold Darroch (1898 – 1974), Reeve of Clifford from 1936 – 1944 and represented Wellington North in the House of Commons of Canada from 1949 – 1953
- Hugh Elliott Eaglesham (1873 – 1938), member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1934 – 1938
- Edwin Tolton (1856 – 1917), represented Wellington North in the House of Commons of Canada from 1900 – 1904
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