Rockland

Rockland is a bilingual neighborhood positioned respecting forty kilometres 25 mi east over downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, piece of the city of Clarence-Rockland. Rockland has a populace of 11,099. The Clarence region began increasing among 1840 together with the improvement regarding the road after l'Orignal-Bytown. Before then, farmers relentlessly cleared wooded house according to stand capable in imitation of cultivate land, their only ability regarding survival. In 1868, a younger entrepreneur, William Cameron Edwards, decided in conformity with establish a sawmill at the McCaul point.

The commencement about a hyperlink according to the Grand Trunk Railway observed among 1888 to permit timber or craft to remain transported. Edwards, whichever held bushes rights between the area and used to be additionally the preceding postmaster, named the location because of the stone habit of its landscape. In 1889, the mission served by the dean Caron beside Clarence-Creek grew to be a parish. The first dean regarding the recent parish was Siméon Hudon, partial about Québec City. The first school awakened within 1875 whilst the forward high-school born of 1905.