Newtonville

Nortonville is a network located within the Municipality of Clarington, Ontario, Canada. It is located approximately 30 km of Oshawa and about 10 km west of Port Hope on the former Highway newtonville is the most easterly network in Clarington and in Durham Region and become inside the southeastern part of the antique Clarke Township till 1973. Nortonville’s first Post workplace opened in 1835 when the village became known as both "Clarke" named after Clarke Township, which it become part of and "Newton".

It become located on the corner of Kingston Rd. Highway 2 and the 8th Side road. The first Postmaster changed into Thomas Hymers, and the 1st mail service changed into John Carscadden, who carried mail from here to Kendal in 1857. The village had eight Postmasters since the inception of the Post office. The final Postmistress turned into Joyce Carroll in 1991. At this time Canada Post's mandate become to close some of the smaller rural Post offices.

Since then the village has been placed on a Rural Route transport taken care of in Port Hope. A retail postal outlet exists these days at the shop in the centre of Nortonville. The save was damaged by fireplace in 2008 and has considering that been rebuilt. On June 10, 1940, Norman McLeod Rogers, Minister of Defense and confidant to Prime Minister Mackenzie King, died in a plane crash near Nortonville en course from Ottawa to Toronto.