Georgetown

Georgetown is a network in the metropolis of Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada and is part of the Regional Municipality of Halton. The town consists of numerous small villages or settlements inclusive of Norval, Limehouse, Stewarttown and Glen Williams close to Georgetown and every other big populace centre, Acton. In 2016, the populace of Georgetown changed into 42,123. It sits at the banks of the Credit River, approximately 60 km west of Toronto, and is part of the Greater Toronto Area.

Georgetown changed into named after entrepreneur George Kennedy who settled within the place in 1821 and built several mills and different groups. By 1650, the Hurons have been worn out by using European sicknesses and the Iroquois. The region turned into now open to the Algonquian Ojibwa. By 1850 the remaining Mississauga natives have been eliminated to the Six Nations Reserve, in which the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation Reserve was mounted. Commencing in 1781, the British government purchased blocks of land from the Mississauga Nation.

In 1818, they bought land that later became the townships of Esquesing and Nassagaweya. The assignment of laying out the townships fell to Timothy Street and Abraham Nelles. Charles Kennedy became hired via Nelles to survey the northern a part of Esquesing Township in 1819, and Charles Kennedy obtained a enormous parcel of land as fee for his paintings. The brothers of Charles Kennedy, John, Morris, Samuel and George, all acquired land near each another inside the Silver Creek Valley. Charles Kennedy constructed a sawmill in a vicinity where Main Street meets Wildwood Road today.