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- “UXBRIDGE, a parish, market town, and ancient municipal borough in the hundred of Elthorne, county Middlesex, 15 miles N. W. of London. It is the terminus of a short branch line of the Great Western railway.
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Uxbridge is located on the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, Mississauga and Chippewa ( Ojibwe) (see also Anishinaabe). At the time of European settlement, the Mississauga and Chippewa inhabited the area between Lake Ontario and Lake Simcoe, including what became Uxbridge.
The first white settlers in Uxbridge, in about 1806, were Dr. Christopher Beswick and 12 Quakerfamilies from Pennsylvania. They were soon joined by Scots, Germans and Pennsylvania Dutch. Incorporated as a town in 1885, Uxbridge’s principal economic activity in the 19th century was as a service centre for local agriculture. The municipality was repu...
Despite white settlement throughout the 19th century, by the early 20th century Mississauga and Chippewa in the Uxbridge area still hadn’t signed treaties with the provincial or federal governments. In 1923, commissioners representing both governments hastily arranged two treaties in order to extinguish the First Nations’ title to the land. Known c...
Residents of note include local manufacturer Joseph Gould, an ally of William Lyon Mackenzie. Gould named the settlement after Uxbridge, England. Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of the “Anne” series, wrote more than half her published works while residing in Leaskdale, a hamlet just north of the town.
Uxbridge (/ ˈ ʌ k s b r ɪ dʒ /) is a suburban town in west London, England, and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Hillingdon, 15.4 miles (24.8 km) northwest of Charing Cross. [2] Uxbridge formed part of the parish of Hillingdon in the county of Middlesex.
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Prior to 1865, Roman Catholic services were held in Michael O’Neill’s house, near the site of the CIBC’s present location. The first Mass was held at the new church named ‘The Sacred Heart of Jesus” on February 3 rd, 1865. The total cost for the new church and furnishings was $2,000.
Uxbridge is a township in the Regional Municipality of Durham in south-central Ontario, Canada. [3] The main centre in the township is the namesake community of Uxbridge. Other settlements within the township include the following: [4] It was named for Uxbridge, England, a name which was derived from "Wixan's Bridge". [5]
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