Bewdley, Ontario
Bewdley is a compact rural community in the township municipality of Hamilton, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada, with a population of about 650 people. The community was founded by William Bancks, whose ancestral home was Bewdley in England. It is located on the western end of Rice Lake about 15 kilometres (9 mi) north of Port Hope.
History
The area was inhabited by native settlers before the town's foundation. The first land grant was in 1794 to Nellie Grant, the daughter of a colonial administrator. The early local name for Bewdley was Black's Landing, named for local tavern owner William Black. Early on, there were sawmills which drove settlement in the area.
William Bancks came to the area in 1833 and tried to organize the creation of a gentlemen's colony and a sawmill. The town is known for its monument to Joseph M. Scriven, writer of "What a Friend We Have in Jesus". He preached upon the village streets around the 1860s, and is buried nearby.
References
- ^ "Bewdley". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- ^ "Toporama (on-line map and search)". Atlas of Canada. Natural Resources Canada. 12 September 2016. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
- ^ "Ontario Geonames GIS (on-line map and search)". Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry. 2014. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
- ^ Catharine Traill (1986). Canadian Crusoes: A Tale of the Rice Lake Plains. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 258. ISBN 9780773573413.
- ^ John Parsons (2000). Where I First Saw the Light: Shearstown and Butlerville and St. Mark's Anglican Church, 1898-1998: a Personal, Spiritual and Temporal Memoir. Grassy Pond Pub. p. 393. ISBN 9780968809600.
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