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r L>, (ji]) N . mrerstx1t)f'tuA"ao way car -.2:.//;, orthnmberland County's obviously named for their natu- rer: nrtrarinCanurk, 1 N,ir,r?ii farm land and ral surroundings. Camborne is l the ports of Cobourg Cornish for "crooked hill.” and Port Hope drew United I . t English in/len?,? top the r _ Empire Loyalists (UEL) from ii, ‘ ' CHAR-LES namesakes m Northumberland, _ - _ the American Thirteen Colonies " ” with Alnwick honoured MI i, I after the War 0131312 and while ' suitably after the castle in Mt! ' At l boundaries have changed It Nnrthumbetland, UK. BewclIley - k . . ' I over time, the county's present 3E.tlll1E.t? 5 was founded in 1333 by William population is about 82,000 with Bancks hailing from Bewdley, .- V l an expanse of 735 square, miles ofBelgium. The township of England, who attempted 'i'"igk , l . . y C ' _ (1,905.97 sq, km.). Hamilton that surrounds pres- to establish a "gentlemen's 'll _ ., - , t . - I Il - , Today there are seven large ent day Cobourg was designated colony." In this county you also . _ I j I , , . - municipalities and believe it or for Henry Hamilton, again a LG have the Britishness of brickley, 4. . _ . , ' - Bt not some 65 smaller villages, of Quebec from 1732-1785. Carmel, Castleton, . .5 Ill " - a; _ . I hamlets and 'curners' within The town otBriehton was . Carmel, Easteltou, " l I " ' ' .e _ . Northumberland. What may founded in 1851 and styled Codringtorl, Crowe Bridge, " IN Ite ‘3, . , surprise you is the history of after the larger port of Brighton, Dartford, Dunnette Landing, _ " - & - ' " . rd , sro, - . Bl . their dubbing, England. More surprisingly, English Line, not to forget (I , I . "" LN l IN Fat . , ' The Municipality of Port nearby Presqu’ile beach was Griffis Corners, Gore's Landing, 'd I JI / . Ill - _ . ' f A; ' I, Hope, " example, dates back baptized by French explorer Godolphin, Grafton, Hastings, , _ . " - l - l, ' ' ' _ "A l r, r to about 1779 when native Samuel de Champlain on his Healey Falls, Hilton, Hoards '_' I,“ k , " UiiN m _ Cayugas called it Ganaraske for second expedition to Canada in Station, Myersburg, Roseneath, airaMi 5:73}, . l M . , a ll iii ' I I . the river that runs throughit. By 1608. Salem and more. a, , . Bi' 'lt' x“ T ll e " " q 1793, UELs were settling in what Cramahe Township wag-:0 There's the page: in Percy, d 'IBiggilE - . y “a ill -, ' - I . , _ , ' became Smith's Creek. Oddl named for Hector T eop i ius PercyBoom, Pe erwicks, Pur y . ' f I .F I , , - " h. g _ - if. , enough, after the War of 181;, de Cramahe, another LG of and the well known Precious . , - Aral/4“ all Ihviiiiiiiiiiall , INRli, 'tSl-h') - . hi). , _ it was briefly called Toronto, Quebec. It's biggest village is Corners. ' l .'gllliN , '\' tm 3” I 35 rs _ E - & th but was renamed Port Hope by Colborne. originally termed Scottish heritage is a close "e a if: " f. . Bl . - £3 4 I © . 1817. The village became part of Keeler's Creek after Joseph second in county designations. , It, lit . . 'em _ 2' I. - the District of ihswcastletDN) in Keeler who opened a store Baltimore, for example was " qt , ' M... 'ha q. "e . , , I.” , 1849 along with neighbouring there in 1819, but it was later penned for settler John McCarty tal, 'ill lllllFtii , = , __ ' ' "MN ' - ., BE ' Durham County. renamed for Sir John Colbome, who emigrated from Baltimore, /2il, Mllglitt' ' " ”a. w. T; ' l " . Traditionally settled by LG of Upper Canada in 1829. County Cork in 1805. Other "tagile, . Ait ' , I Bi Jr tlr! i l, ' a _ , English, Irish and Scottish, pri-' Alderville First Nations, locations showtheir Gaelic [ff 'm ' if , I ' I A. I l- me; ' ' I , marily, it seems odd that at least a sub-nation ofthe Ojibwas tilt, as in Bumbrae, Burnely, a MI I I . - ah, all LI “I , ' , " l k, " , , . r, three Northumberland com- and formerly known as Indian Connelly, Dundonald, Fenella, M . g I . " r" 3 , - i i , , I, ' ll, i " il _ " munities - Cramahe, Hamilton Reserve 37, has been home to MaCracken Landing and Sli, ll 1lilt " , a , t . , PA , i - - I 18 - " . . i and the former HopeTownship the Mississaugas since the early Sunnybrae. " ' " “Elia , ' M. I h"a8 I ' ' II " ' ' ' were titled after Lieutenant- 1800s and is autonomously Wicklow has Irish roots while '%ralt was??? tn, X2%" l J" x ' , Brit g; _ tt Governors (LG) of Quebec. governed. Little Germany and Kellers M, 'ar _ "RI - l ___r y Ega' . aie . - M' Though the present day omce of The Municipality of Trent denote a Germanic decent and in?" a; We; 1 , ' KT _ - Ail I: W' , & i ih LGs in Ontario came into being Hills was created in 2001 by Haldimand has an English- i-l It . XEM it a ’ MI' . I . A_ I ' I after Confederation in 1867, the amalgamating Campbellford Germanbackground. Shiloh is ' , I . “ QM! = tit j ' a I , Eh post remained a continuation and its neighbours, but the simply biblical. ,o- " , , - "f .. _ Fd be ' is It ' -- {/1- MS i. . ' ofthe first governorships of town tracesits history as far So what is in a al " 't’ I“. "T ’ " we ra, "i, . . _ Ittrrt- = -. - " -, irdlll " Upper Canadain 1791, which back as the early 13005 when Northumberland name? Well, Mi ll! , fy",- no" I * n, T; T "a" , . - " 1llRitgli8 . all”: - f ' , it. had branched out of LGs in the again UELs were drawn to the to name it, a wealth ofhistory *0 a “g (' yr; , N ' l r'au' I' . l 7 _ W, I [it,t't 'ieti2 ' Milglllg! ‘ l? r“ Province of Quebec. area by large land grants along that makes us proud ofeach T " i. W, "‘, it} t r".c,!iiill'r' _ ' _ K, ail 'tlit RI Eh" _ .. 'dh, ‘4" t ' The town of Cobourg and the Trent-Sevem waterway. and every part. By the way, the m. . kT tWi' x, 5,,_" r" "j' "'l _ , ' . J" 1tt , a. the county seat began asa Seymour Township was settled origin of name Beale comes a... , _ ‘ F a ‘-‘ _ J“ ' ' ‘ V ish; _ _ ' ' . small group of villages like by Scottish brothers, Lt. Colonel from Northumberland, UK, that ' Wg0tliMbAND, a . _. _ Hardscrabble and Amherst Robert and Major David meant "bee hill." R, sTRENQT 'Nilg)tr, ,', and was briefly titled Hamilton Campbell and known then as Charles Beale is aformer _ _ , ..~ I .. -.- , 'r _ = " q I _ . ': before being integrated into Campbell's Ford. educator, historian, freelance " q ' trey-II 7 4’1? ' , the DN_Irl an unusual move, Many patronymics like Cold writer and author anarrly E. _ .. V L I it was called Cobourg in Springs,Green Acres, Gully, MacDonald - Interpreter of Old . , 1818 after Leopold ofSaxe- Luughbreeze, Spring Valley and Ontario. He can be reached at ' . _ % I Coburg-Saalfeld, a future king Woodland,m suggest a few, are unvw.charesbeaie,ca or an twat .