Harrow

Harrow is a network positioned in the metropolis of Essex, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. First called Munger's Corners after John Munger, the first postmaster, the metropolis changed into renamed by way of John O'Connor in 1857 for the one-of-a-kind Harrow School in London. Hiram Walker, of Canadian Club Whisky repute, is credited with putting Harrow on the map. Walker constructed the railway, which delivered grain from the south end of the county into the city for use in his distillery.

The tracks remained for over one hundred years, and had been eliminated in 1992. The line became the Chrysler Canada Greenway, a part of the Trans Canada Trail. Walker's distillation operations remained in Harrow till 2009, while the Canbar, Inc cooperage closed. Though early settlers had been normally German, a thriving network of Portuguese came later and still stay. Today Harrow is a network located alongside scenic County Road 20 that offers stores and places for antique hunters. Attractions consist of Colio Winery and historic John R. Park Homestead.

Harrow has prepared and hosted an annual agricultural fair each Labour Day weekend for over one hundred fifty years, and lots of people from Essex County and other parts of Ontario attend. Highlights of the truthful encompass a mom calling contest, a pie public sale, "bossy" bingo and a tractor pull. The Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Greenhouse and Processing Crops Research Centre is also located in Harrow. Atlas Tube, a unit of Zekelman Industries, owned with the aid of the Zekelman own family, makes its domestic on the outskirts of metropolis.