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Encyclopedia > Bell Ewart, Ontario

Bell Ewart is a village located within the town of Innisfil, Ontario, on the shore of Lake Simcoe. Masouleh village, Gilan Province, Iran. ... Innisfil is a town located on the western shore of Lake Simcoe, immediately south of Barrie and 80 km north of Toronto, Canada. ... Lake Simcoe is a lake in southern Ontario, Canada, the fourth largest lake in the province. ...


History

Bell Ewart was a station on the Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Rail Road. The village was laid out in 1854 and soon rose to a place of importance, as a port of transfer between lake steamers and the railroad. After the railway was completed as far as Allandale, a mile long branch was constructed from south of Lefroy, to Cook's Bay, where the railway established its wharves and warehouses. This place was named for James Bell Ewart, a Dundas industrialist who purchased lands around the proposed railway terminus, as an investment. Mr. Bell Ewart died a very short time later. As well as being important for lumber shipments from various points on Lake Simcoe a large sawmill was established there in 1854 by Henry W. Sage. The Northern Railway of Canada was a historical Canadian railway located in the province of Ontario. ... 1854 (MDCCCLIV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Paddle steamers - Lucerne-Switzerland Left: original paddlewheel from a paddle steamer on the lake of Lucerne. ... Cooks Bay is the southernmost bay in Lake Simcoe Cooks Bay is a bay in Canada. ... Dundas, Ontario, Canada held a town charter between 1848 and 2001. ... Lake Simcoe is a lake in southern Ontario, Canada, the fourth largest lake in the province. ... A sawmill is a facility where logs are cut into boards. ... Henry W. Sage (31 January 1814 - 1897) was a wealthy New York State businessman, philanthropist, and early benefactor and trustee of Cornell University. ...


By the time the railway had extended its line beyond Orillia in the 1870s, the village of Bell Ewart had lost its importance as a railway terminal. Only after the sawmill accidentally burned down in 1879, that the rails of the branch line were removed. The Welcome sign to Orillia Orillia, pronounced ōrĭlēə, is a city located in Simcoe County in south-central Ontario, Canada, on Lake Couchiching. ... A branch line is a relatively minor railway line which branches off a more important through route. ...


Later on the rails at Bell Ewart were re-laid to serve the Ice Harvesting Industry. One entrepreneur of this business established his firm as the Belle Ewart Ice Comany, adding the second "e" to the name Bell, because he liked the way appeared on his company letterhead. Any use of the corruption of the name Bell Ewart in reference to anything other than the Ice Company, would certainly be an insult to James Bell Ewart, the namesake of this place. An ancient ice house, called a yakhchal, built in Kerman, Iran during the middle ages, for storing ice during summers. ... For the computer game previously called Entrepreneur, see The Corporate Machine. ... Letterhead is a group of sign and decorative artists that meet during the year for hand lettering rallies and to exchange lost tricks of the trade and accumulated skills. ... If a person, place, or thing is named after a different person, place, or thing, then one is said to be the namesake of the other. ...



 
 

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