Acton (Ontario)

Acton is located in south central Ontario, at Black Creek, a tributary of the Credit River. On 1 July 1950, she was built as a city. From 1 January 1974, it became a borough of Halton Hills and part of the Regional Municipality of Halton. The population in 2001 was 7,767 people. Acton is 7, approached on the road between Brampton and Guelph, Ontario, and is regularly by the GO Transit bus service on the line from George Town ( Go Transit) at the Ontario Provincial Highway.

Leather city

The town is commonly known as Leather City known since it has an intense leather processing industry flourished between the 19th and 20th centuries. During this time, Acton was the largest community in the region around Halton Hills, much larger than the nearby Georgetown, which has more than twice the population of today. The area of Acton was well suited for the leather industry because of the large amount of trees that could be found in this area.

The nickname is now only used by the Olde Hide House, a large leather goods dealers in an old warehouse and Beardmore Leather in the old town. The city has simultaneously Fairy Lake, a landscaped man-made lake, which lies outside the reach of many places of Acton, and Prospect Park.

Geographical Location

The water power of the Black Creek was crucial for the positioning of the city and the mill, which is there to this very day in operation, even if you have changed basic things. Acton is located near the watershed between the Credit River and the Grand River, which is located west of the local area where the Blue Springs Creek springs.

Population

The city was presented in June 2005, according to CBC Radio briefly as a " really white community." Acton was largely Protestant religion was completed by the regional Zusammenlegungsakt of Halton 1974. He explained the entire Halton Region as a separate school zone, which contributed to the uniqueness of the city, as she was the only indigenous community, which had no Roman Catholic school.

The mixing of the population changed in the 1990s, as new developments prevailed after water and economic restrictions eased after they had passed about 30 years. Development areas in the north and east of the city will be expected to exhibit population growth of up to 10,000 people.

What the natives

It is significant that in older books and papers that describe this region, not only one but two names for the residents of Acton exist. The term " Actonit " was used by people who moved to Acton to distinguish from the original inhabitants of the Actoniern who lived there since childhood. The first name, however, was increasingly being used more, since more and more people moved in the 1960s from the outside to Acton, but the ancient inhabitants mention this term still occasionally.

Celebrities Acton

• Donald Mann
• Mazo de la Roche
• Judy Fong Bates

Swell

Acton's Early Days (1939 ); privately published by The Acton Free Press, last reprint 1978