Alexandria (Ontario)
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| Province : | Ontario | ||
| County : | Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry United Counties | ||
| Coordinates : | 45 ° 19 ′ N , 74 ° 38 ′ W | ||
| Area : | 642.4 km² | ||
| Residents : | 3209 (as of: 2011) | ||
| Population density : | 5 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern Time ( UTC − 5 ) | ||
| Postal code : | K0C | ||
| Mayor : | Grant crack | ||
Alexandria is a small town in the extreme southeast of the Canadian province of Ontario . It belongs to the county of North Glengarry in Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry County . At the 2016 census it had 2,845 inhabitants.
It is located 84 kilometers southeast of Ottawa and 87 kilometers west of Montreal (both as the crow flies) on the Garry River .
Both of Canada's official languages, English and French, are spoken in the city. Two thirds of the population are French-speaking Canadians.
history
Glengarry County was settled by families from Glengarry in the Scottish Highlands after the American War of Independence . The men had fought on the Royal British side in the war. In 1804, the Catholic priest Alexander Macdonell came from Scotland with other "Glengarries" and settled at Saint Raphael’s in South Glengarry . On the river Garry (named after the river of the same name in Scotland) he built a water mill and a dam for the water supply in 1819 . The mill was called Priest's Mill by the people . In the following years a settlement developed around the mill. It was named Alexandria in honor of the founder, who became the first Bishop of Kingston in 1826 .
Alexandria has been the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Alexandria-Cornwall since 1890 . Episcopal Church is St Finnan's Cathedral . In 1903 the settlement was elevated to a town.
On January 1, 1998, the former parishes of Kenyon, Lochiel and Maxville were combined with Alexandria to form the new parish of North Glengarry.
Infrastructure
Alexandria has three elementary schools and two high schools, the Glengarry District High School and the Catholic École secondaire "Le Relais" .
In the north of the city there is a VIA Rail Canada station on the Montreal – Ottawa railway line , which is listed as a cultural monument in the Canadian Register of Historic Places. In the northeast there is also a small private airfield with an attached parachutist base.
The local newspaper is called The Glengarry News .
Web links
- The Canadian Encyclopedia - Alexandria, Ont. (English)
- Glengarry on the Web (English) ( Memento of 6 February 2007 at the Internet Archive )
- Information about the Alexandria aerodrome with aerial photo ( Memento from May 25, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- École secondaire Le Relais Home Page of the French School (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Census Profile, 2016 Census Alexandria [Population center], Ontario and Ontario [Province] , accessed May 29, 2018
- ^ JA MacDonell: A Sketch of the Life of the Honorable and Right Reverend Alexander MacDonell , Alexandria ON 1890, p. 35 , annotation
- ^ Raisin Region Conservation Authority: Garry River System , p. 2
- ^ Main Street Glengarry County , pp. 6, p. 13
- ^ Canadian Register of Historic Places - VIA Rail / Canadian National Railways Station Alexandria, Ontario , accessed May 29, 2018