Palermo
Hagartown
Former hamlet
Palermo United Church
Palermo United Church
Palermo is located in Regional Municipality of Halton
Palermo
Palermo
Location of Palermo, Ontario
Palermo is located in Southern Ontario
Palermo
Palermo
Palermo (Southern Ontario)
Coordinates: 43°26′05″N 79°46′39″W / 43.43464°N 79.77748°W / 43.43464; -79.77748
CountryCanada
ProvinceOntario
Regional municipalityHalton Region
TownOakville
Established1805
Renamed1836
Amalgamated1962
Founded byLawrence Hagar
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
Postal code
L6M

Palermo, founded as Hagartown, is a former hamlet in Halton County (today Halton Region), Ontario, Canada, within the town of Oakville.

The hamlet was located around what is now the intersection of Dundas Street and Bronte Road.[1] The settlement was established in 1805 by Lawrence Hagar, a settler to Upper Canada from Pennsylvania.[2] The village was named Hagartown until 1836 when it was renamed to Palermo in honour of Horatio Nelson, Lord of Palermo.[2]

In 1869, the population was 300.[3] In 1875, the village had an iron foundry, two stores, and a hotel. At that time its population was 150.[4] By the 1870s, the village also had a wagon shop, blacksmith shop, harness shop, brick school house, churches, a telegraph office and drill shed.[1] The village, along with other villages in Trafalgar Township, became part of Oakville in 1962, when the township was amalgamated into Oakville.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b Broadbent, Heather; Humphreys, Barbara (23 November 1994). "RE: TOWN OF OAKVILLE - INTENTION TO DESIGNATE 2495 BRONTE ROAD, OAKVILLE, ONTARIO" (PDF). Ontario Conservation Review Board. Government of Ontario. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 April 2012.
  2. ^ a b Unterman McPhail Associates (March 2010). "New North Oakville Transportation Corridor and Crossing of Sixteen Mile Creek - Appendix F: Cultural Heritage Assessment". Regional Municipality of Halton. p. 17. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
  3. ^ McEvoy, Henry (1869). The Province of Ontario gazetteer and directory: containing concise descriptions of cities, towns and villages in the province, with the names of professional and business men and principal inhabitants, together with a full list of members of the executive governments, senators, members of the commons and local legislatures, and officials of the Dominion, and a large amount of other general, varied and useful information, carefully compiled from the most recent and authentic data. Robertson & Cook. p. 373. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
  4. ^ Lovell's gazetteer of British North America: containing the latest and most authentic description of over six thousand cities, towns, and villages...: with a table of routes. Lovell [printing and publishing co.] 1875. p. 244. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
  5. ^ "History Geography Oakville". Virtual Walk Directory. Archived from the original on 22 April 2012.

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Communities of the Regional Municipality of Halton, Ontario
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