Wiarton

bub — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:49:58 -0500

As promised, and I never said it would be soon, the Journey begins again of our tour of S.B.P. . This time we head past the old bookstore in Clavering(Can someone tell me where the train station was years ago in Clavering? Was this it??) along the straight and narrow Highway 6, past the cut off to Zion, and you will enter one of the prettiest towns you can imagine, Wiarton.

The name Wiarton is said to have been taken from the birthplace of the Governor General at the time, Sir Edmund Walker Head. The areaâ€™s lots were not put up for sale until 1868, putting it behind the earlier settlements on Colpoys and Oxenden, with the earliest settler being James Lennox,living in his little log shanty.
Wiarton evolved from a rural market point, to a community of mills, and businesses in a very short while. There was even three times a week stage coach runs to Owen Sound, in 1876, now THAT was progress!
A large influx of people to the area started, when rumours of a railway soon to come to the town started. The inevitable building of schools and churches resulted.A special act of parliament was needed to allow Wiarton to officially incorporate as a town, because the town itself was split between 2 counties, Bruce and Grey. Wiarton actually came into existance with a NET DEBT of 13,000 dollars, quite a bit of money in those days.

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Wiarton