Highlands East, Ontario
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Municipality of Highlands East | |
| Country | Canada |
|---|---|
| Province | Ontario |
| District | Haliburton County |
| Established | 2001 |
| Government | |
| - Type | Township |
| - Reeve | Dave Burton |
| - Governing Body | Council of the Municipality of Highlands East |
| - MP | Barry Devolin (CPC) |
| - MPP | Laurie Scott (PC) |
| Population (2006)[1] | |
| - Total | 3,089 |
| Time zone | EST (UTC-5) |
| - Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| Postal code span | K0L 3C0 |
| Area code(s) | 705 |
| Website: Municipality of Highlands East | |
Highlands East (2006 population 3,089) is a township located in Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada.
Contents |
[edit] History
The township was incorporated in 2001, upon the amalgamation of the former townships of Bicroft, Cardiff, Glamorgan and Monmouth.
[edit] Communities
Cardiff is a former mining community; the mines opened in 1956 and closed several years later. The chief mineral being mined in Cardiff was uranium. Cardiff is located on Highway 118 between the towns of Bancroft and Haliburton. The Cardiff Elementary School is a small school. The community also has a Royal Canadian Legion hall, a Catholic and United Church, as well as an outdoor pool which is popular during the summer. The entrance to the townsite, off of Highway 118, is marked by a large metal sculpture of a dragonfly.
Gooderham is bordered on the south by the Irondale River and Pine Lake to the north. It is located on a now defunct railway line, which has been since converted into a trail network.
Wilberforce was established as "Pusey," a station on the Irondale, Bancroft and Ottawa Railway, and named for railway president Charles J. Pusey. This little railway had initially been built to carry iron ore from open pit mines at Irondale. Although the mines had closed, the railway had high hopes of extending to Bancroft and even higher hopes of reaching Ottawa. At Wilberforce where the railway skirted the southern shore of Pusey Lake, the Wilberforce Lumber Company put up a sawmill. In 1909 the Wilberforce mill was leased to James Lauder and Joseph Spears, of Toronto. The IB&O Railway was taken over by the Canadian Northern Railway in 1912. Messrs. Lauder and Spears along with Lucien B. Howland, (the former General Manager of the IB&O), looking for new business opportunities, acquired a sawmill on the new CNR line north of Parry Sound, Ontario. The three men eventually established the community of Lost Channel in the Parry Sound District, and went bankrupt in the process.
The township also contains the smaller communities of Cheddar, Cope Falls, Deer Lake, Dyno Estates, Essonville, Harcourt, Highland Grove, Hotspur, Ironsides, Maxwells, Pusey, South Wilberforce, Tory Hill, Upper Paudash, Ursa and Ward.
