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Madoc is a community in the municipality of Centre Hastings, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. It is situated at the intersection of Highway 7 and Highway 62, southeast of Bancroft, somewhere between Toronto and Ottawa. Madoc was initially named MacKenzie's Mills after Donald MacKenzie, who assembled a sawmill and grist process here. It was quickly named Hastings however renamed Madoc Township after the incredible Welsh sovereign Madoc ap Owain Gwynedd, acknowledged by some for finding North America in 1170.

At the point when individuals gone by steed and carriage amid the nineteenth century from Toronto to Ottawa, Madoc was the midway stop over, enabling the travelers and ponies to rest. The people group isolated from the namesake township and remained a consolidated region until 1998. The zone has had a rich mining history. Gold was found at adjacent Eldorado in 1866. Fluorite was separated from the territory amid the 1940s. The powder mine, under the name Canada Talc that was underway in Madoc for right around 114 years by 2010 is currently closing down. It is one of just three mines on the planet that has been in consistent task for in excess of one hundred years.

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