Brockville

Brockville is a Canadian city in the province of Ontario. Brockville is located 75 km north-east of Kingston in the Thousand Islands region on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River. The city was named after the British General Isaac Brock and the headquarters of the administrative unit Leeds and Grenville United Counties.

History

The first settlement Brock Villes found in 1785 by American refugees instead, which later became known as United Empire Loyalists, and at the side of King George III. participated in the American Revolutionary War. Around 1810, the city was dubbed by the government of Upper Canada as Elizabeth Town. The Canada celebrated as a hero and savior of General Isaac Brock was worshiped mainly because of its success in securing the surrender of Fort Shelby. It is not historically accurate picture, for whatever reason, the town changed its name. However, it should be noted that from 1812 onwards more and more citizens letterhead of official letter referred to the city as Brockville, what has remained thus obtained. On January 28, 1832 Brockville was the first self-governing city of Ontario and thus even two years earlier than Toronto.

The city was chartered Brockville 1962.

Policy

City ​​Government

The city government Brock Villes consists of nine elected councils that represent a Ward respectively, and a mayor. Current mayor is David L. Henderson.

Twinning

There is a city partnership for California town Ontario.

Buildings and monuments

The main attraction of the place is the now disused Brockville Tunnel, a railway tunnel, the south entrance is located south of the town hall. Its construction began in September 1854, on 31 December 1860 he was released for rail transport. He was the first railway tunnel in Canada. It was used until April 1966 moves with lower constructed diesel locomotives. After selling the line and the system for the symbolic price of one dollar, the tunnel was shut down. The first 279 m of the 527 m long tunnel are open during the tourist season to the public. Display boards in the tunnel walls remember his story. Near the tunnel entrance is a decommissioned red railroad car from the Canadian Pacific Railway.

The town hall from Brockville is located in a house built 1862-64, called the Victoria Hall. The simple building with high arched windows supports a flat, bright green roof with a centrally directed toward King Street West Clock Tower. Two small chimneys protrude sideways up from the roof.

North of the town hall in front of a small park stands the courthouse ( Brockville Court House ). The representative, neoclassical building replaced a brick building dating back to 1809 /10 and built in the years 1842-1844 according to the plans of the Toronto architect John George Howard. The input consists of a square buttress, at the head of a Justice is secured from wood.

In the park in front of the courthouse there is a fountain and a bust of the patron saint of the city, General Isaac Brock. Southeast of the park there is a built in 1878 and the Baptist Church built in 1879 in the northwest corner of First Presbyterian Church.

In the historical center of Brockville, the city museum ( The Brockville Museum ). It displays exhibits relating to industrial, agricultural and social development of the city.

Traffic

Brockville is located approximately 340 km east of the city of Toronto and 210 kilometers west of Montreal, which are connected by Highway 401. About the Steward Boulevard ( Highway 29 ), the city is connected with this important thoroughfare in the east-west direction and lies about 110 km south of the federal capital Ottawa. The St. Lawrence River is at this point the natural border between Canada and the United States with the New York State. Although a direct road from Brockville with the U.S. does not exist, but there are 40 km west the Thousand Islands Bridge and 25 km east of the Ogdensburg -Prescott International Bridge two international bridges that lead into the United States.

The regional company Brockville Transit covers the public bus system of the city and provides special transfer buses for disabled people. About the company VIA Rail Brockville is connected to the railway network of the Quebec- Windsor corridor. In Brockville, the railroad Toronto -Montreal (Kingston Subdivision ) of the Canadian National Railway, formerly Grand Trunk Railway, with the Brockville Subdivision (Smith Falls- Brockville ) of the Canadian Pacific Railway (formerly Central Canadian Railway) crosses. The section from the intersection point to the St. Lawrence River through the Brockville tunnel is shut down. At the end of the track one of the Canadian Pacific ferry service to Morristown was (New York).

Moreover, in the place the chain today disused railway line of the Brockville Westport and North - Western Railway from Westport.

Personalities

• Nathan Phillips (1892-1976), 52nd Mayor of Toronto
• Alyn McCauley ( born 1977 ), ice hockey player