Category Archives: Georgetown

  A number of years ago the cemetery was vandalized and out of the approximate 35 burials, only a handful of headstone are able to be restored. They are trying to locate family descendants. The identified headstones are: 1.  Evan … Continue reading →

Georgetown Street Names *Academy Road:After the Georgetown Academy, a private school near the old Smith and Stone Factory. *Albert Street: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Goth (1819-1861) married Queen Victoria in 1840. Alcott Drive: Gordon Alcott, town resident, founder of Little N.H.L. … Continue reading →

The Daily Leader – Toronto, 25th March 1854 New Paper Mill The Barber Brothers, so well known for their manufacturing enterprise, are putting up a new and extensive Paper Mill on the Credit, near Georgetown. It is a stone building, … Continue reading →

Property in Georgetown The Daily Leader – Toronto, 15th March 1854 At a sale of village lots near the Railway station, at Georgetown, Esquesing, the property of Geo. Kennedy, Esq., on the 9th inst., the prices ranged from 30 pounds … Continue reading →

Hamilton Spectator May 14, 1859 – A Day In Georgetown (From a Correspondent)            As Parliamentary news does not fill your columns, and it is likely your valuable sheet will not be as crowded as heretofore, I take the opportunity … Continue reading →

On the serpentine ridges that bank the west branch of the River Credit, in the township of Esquesing (an Indian word signifying “The land of the Tall Pines”), County of Halton, twenty-nine miles due west of Toronto, on the main … Continue reading →

Georgetown: A Busy Manufacturing Community The Georgetown Herald, Wed. December 17, 1913 Of the smaller urban centers of Ontario, perhaps none is better known or more thriving, considering its size, than the beautiful and progressive village of Georgetown. There is … Continue reading →