Palermo, founded as Hagartown, is a former hamlet in Halton County (today Halton Region), Ontario, Canada, within the town of Oakville.
Palermo
Hagartown | |
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Former hamlet | |
 Palermo United Church | |
  Palermo Location of Palermo, Ontario  Palermo Palermo (Southern Ontario) | |
| Coordinates: 43°26′05″N 79°46′39″W / 43.43464°N 79.77748°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Ontario |
| Regional municipality | Halton Region |
| Town | Oakville |
| Established | 1805 |
| Renamed | 1836 |
| Amalgamated | 1962 |
| Founded by | Lawrence Hagar |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| Postal code | L6M |
The hamlet was located around what is now the intersection of Dundas Street and Bronte Road.[1] The settlement was established in 1805 by Lawrence Hagar, a settler to Upper Canada from Pennsylvania.[2] The village was named Hagartown until 1836 when it was renamed to Palermo in honour of Horatio Nelson, Lord of Palermo.[2]
In 1869, the population was 300.[3] In 1875, the village had an iron foundry, two stores, and a hotel. At that time its population was 150.[4] By the 1870s, the village also had a wagon shop, blacksmith shop, harness shop, brick school house, churches, a telegraph office and drill shed.[1] The village, along with other villages in Trafalgar Township, became part of Oakville in 1962, when the township was amalgamated into Oakville.[5]
References edit
- ^ a b Broadbent, Heather; Humphreys, Barbara (23 November 1994). "RE: TOWN OF OAKVILLE - INTENTION TO DESIGNATE 2495 BRONTE ROAD, OAKVILLE, ONTARIO" (PDF). Ontario Conservation Review Board. Government of Ontario. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 April 2012.
- ^ a b Unterman McPhail Associates (March 2010). "New North Oakville Transportation Corridor and Crossing of Sixteen Mile Creek - Appendix F: Cultural Heritage Assessment". Regional Municipality of Halton. p. 17. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
- ^ McEvoy, Henry (1869). The Province of Ontario gazetteer and directory: containing concise descriptions of cities, towns and villages in the province, with the names of professional and business men and principal inhabitants, together with a full list of members of the executive governments, senators, members of the commons and local legislatures, and officials of the Dominion, and a large amount of other general, varied and useful information, carefully compiled from the most recent and authentic data. Robertson & Cook. p. 373. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- ^ Lovell's gazetteer of British North America: containing the latest and most authentic description of over six thousand cities, towns, and villages...: with a table of routes. Lovell [printing and publishing co.] 1875. p. 244. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- ^ "History Geography Oakville". Virtual Walk Directory. Archived from the original on 22 April 2012.