Actinolite is a community on the Skootamatta River in eastern Ontario. Actinolite is in the Municipality of Tweed, in Hastings County, on Highway 37 just south of Highway 7 and north of Tweed. It is well known for the Log Cabin Restaurant; not for the cuisine, which is unremarkable, but as it is a major stopover point for coach bus runs between the Belleville and Ottawa areas.
When it was first founded in 1853, it was called Troy. A number of sawmills were built on the river here. In 1859, it became Bridgewater. In 1895, it was renamed Actinolite after the mineral actinolite that was being extracted from open-pit mines near the town.
The climate of Ontario varies greatly, as might be expected from its wide range in latitude and the relationships of the Great Lakes to the southern peninsula of the province.
Ontario is thus pre-eminently an agricultural province, though the growth of manufactures has increased the importance of the towns and cities, and many of the farmers are seeking new homes in the provinces of Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
In the discussions from which sprang the federation of 1867, Ontario was the one province strongly in favour of the union, which was only rendered possible by the coalition of her rival leaders, J. Macdonald and George Brown.
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