Newcastle, Ontario

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Newcastle is a community in the Clarington municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada. The community inherits the old name of the current municipality that belongs to him.

Newcastle is located about 80 km east of Toronto, and about 18 km east of Oshawa and Bowmanville on Highway 401. It is also the southern end of Highway 35 and Highway 115. It has been named as one of the best small towns in Ontario, by Comfort Life , a pension website that lives in Canada.

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History

Newcastle was founded as a city in 1856. It remained a small community until the 1990s, when new housing construction began and the population quickly swelled. Newcastle had a prison in the late 1800s. The map of Newcastle from those years has not been found. Many tried to locate this prison, but it was believed that it was destroyed or destroyed by elements. There's a jail cell in the Newcastle Community Hall.

Newcastle is surrounded by farms that raise cattle, pigs, apples, grains, and corn. The city has a beautiful meeting hall, donated by the Massey family, a public high school (Clarke), two public elementary schools (Newcastle Public School and The Pines Senior School), a Catholic primary school (St. Francis of Assisi) post office, church, several plazas, some small parks, six restaurants, Tim Hortons, recreation complex, ice rink, new fire hall, two grocery stores (Foodland and No-frills), professional offices, hardware stores, Ontario, and the golf course (Newcastle Golf Course).

Post office history

The first Post Office opened at Newcastle in 1845 with John Short serving as Postmaster. Since 1845, there have been a total of 10 Postmasters in the village - Charles Gray being the last in 1991. With Gray's retirement, the Canada Post closed the Post office in accordance with its policy, then closed many smaller Post offices. The Guardian Drug Store initially used the franchise to handle the retail mail business for the city, but this is now run by Shopper's Drugmart. Rural routes and Suburban Letters for residents are now handled from the Bowmanville Post Office.

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Leading individuals

Joseph E. Atkinson (December 23, 1865 - May 7, 1948) is an editor and activist for Canadian newspapers. Under his leadership, Toronto Star became one of Canada's largest and most influential newspapers.

Daniel Massey, whose agricultural farming business eventually formed Massey-Ferguson.

Early settlers using sticks and spears could capture as many as 100,000 salmon in one night from the flowing water into Lake Ontario. One person who has a great influence in the village is Samuel Wilmot. He became interested in salmon as early as 1860 and built a "fish hatchery" in Newcastle - one of the first in the world. Wilmot would eventually become the head of a fishery for Canada, and in the 1890s he ran a small power station that supplied Newcastle with his first electric power - from sunset to about 12:00 pm.

Louis G. Lalande (March 11, 1935 -) is a retired pipefitter and community volunteer. In 1999, when he opened a booth for the Knights of Columbus annual charity raffle near a bank in a mall in Oshawa, he thwarted a bank robbery by attacking the assailant about his head and shoulders with an iron folding chair. The attacker's gun pointing at that moment turned out to be an early pistol, but this was unknown to Lalande and the residents of the bank at the time. Lalande was later awarded the Medal of Bravery, and the Carnegie Medal for Heroism.

The 1980 Chalk Circle rock band was formed in the village. They have hits in Canada with songs like April Fool , Me, Me and Me and Sons and Daughters , a song about the negative effects of free trade with US.

A member of Canada's national women's ice hockey team, Tara Watchorn, won the gold medal at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.

Susan Kane Doyle, Author of the National Prize Winner, Cooking Style, and the longtime cook editor of Ontario Out of Doors, award-winning Pete McGillen also lives in the village.

Charles Brent-Bishop of the Episcopal Church, born in Newcastle in 1862.

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City of Newcastle, 1973-94

The name "City of Newcastle" was used from 1973-94 for the municipality now called the Clarington Municipal. The name was changed in 1994 to ease the long-standing confusion between the municipality as a whole and the community of the same name. This community is commonly known as the "Village of Newcastle" to distinguish the two. It is also a puzzling fact that Bowmanville has a larger population than the "Village of Newcastle", and also accommodates the former Newcastle city office, leading some to believe the city should be called "Bowmanville" instead of "Newcastle" during that time. period.

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Popular attractions

• Docville Wild West Park is a wild western mock town that offers its use to filmmakers and other paid visitors.
• The Newcastle Santa Claus parade held on a Sunday night every November begins in 2005.
• Allin & amp; Botanical Gardens The State Market is Apple's farm that has been supplying products since the early 1900s.
• Algoma Orchards has moved from Whitby to Hwy 2, west of Newcastle in 2009. The large packaging and storage facilities built and the retail store including the bakery are part of a large complex.
• The Drug Shopping Mart store is built in the main southeast corner of the village in 2010-2011. This location holds many businesses within the last 100-150 including foodstuffs, florists, furniture, bakeries, women's clothing stores, offices and apartments on the 2nd and 3rd floors. The complete building is torn down and a house behind it to create new complexes in season hot 2010. The demolition was very unpopular among the population. The new complex has pharmacies, cosmetics, groceries and other drugstore and post office items. Shopper was in a different location in the previous city to move.
• The Rona hardware store is a tenant in the southwest corner of the main for many years and moved south to Toronto St. in 2009. They also opened the Wood Center in September 2012. The site at King Street was empty until July 2011 when the Home Hardware store was opened.
• Art gifts are art galleries, shops, and nonprofit teaching/learning facilities featuring local artists' work. Art gifts feature works by artists in various media, including paintings, pottery, woodcarvings, photography, music, and more.

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Nearby places

• Newtonville, east
• Orono, north
• Bowmanville, west
• Bondhead, south

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References

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External links

• Newcastle in Canada's Geographic Name

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