Orangeville, Ontario
| Orangeville | |||
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 Main entrance of the historic courthouse |
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| Location in Ontario | |||
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| Province : | Ontario | ||
| County : | Dufferin County | ||
| Coordinates : | 43 ° 55 ′ N , 80 ° 6 ′ W | ||
| Area : | 31.16 km² | ||
| Residents : | 27,975 (as of 2011) | ||
| Population density : | 897.8 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern Time ( UTC − 5 ) | ||
| Postal code : | L9W | ||
| Area code : | +1 519 and 226 | ||
| Foundation : | 1863 (village), 1873 (town) |
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Orangeville is a municipality in Dufferin County in the Canadian province of Ontario and is also the County Seat of Dufferins. The place is on the agriculturally intensively used plain between Lake Erie in the south and Lake Huron in the north, about 40 km northwest of Toronto . The Credit River , which flows into Lake Ontario, has its source in the municipality . There are no significant surveys in the municipality.
history
The area of today's Orangevilles was sold to a land developer on October 7, 1820 and settled from around 1829. The population increased steadily; the administration of the settlement was organized by Orange Lawrence, who bought 300 acres of land in the south of the parish and opened a mill, a tavern and a shop in the village, as well as the school and the post office. When the place was named a village in 1863 , the villagers chose it to give the place its name. In 1873 the place was made an independent town . At that time the place had 1,458 inhabitants.
In April 1871, the TG&B Railway opened its station in Orangeville, which led to significant population and economic growth in the place. Passenger traffic was only stopped 100 years later, in 1971. Today Orangeville is primarily used as a dormitory for nearby Toronto.
sons and daughters of the town
- Oscar Douglas Skelton (1878-1941), historian
- Bert Wilson (1949–1992), ice hockey player
- Laurie Graham (* 1960), ski racer
- Greg Ireland (born 1965), ice hockey coach
- Michelle Ruthven (* 1967), ski racer
- Mike Flanagan (* 1968), ice hockey player and coach
- Adam Joseph "Edge" Copeland (born 1973), wrestler
- Alyscha Mottershead (* 1991), soccer player
- Christopher (* 1990) and Alexandre (* 1991) van de Hoef , DJs; Artist name: DVBBS
- Brett Ritchie (* 1993), ice hockey player
- Nick Ritchie (* 1995), ice hockey player
