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In the first years of the 19th century, mills helped to establish a settlement here. Then came the completion of Kingston Road and harbour improvements. Known originally as Hamilton, Cobourg was incorporated as a town in 1850.

A store established here around 1819 by Joseph Keeler, a prominent local merchant and early settler, provided the nucleus around which the community of Colborne began. The settlement thrived as more businesses started. The arrival of the Grand Trunk Railway in 1856 spurred further growth and, three years later, Colborne was incorporated as a village.

After the end of the American Revolution, loyalist refugees came to Canada. One group came from New York State and landed near here at Cataraqui, now known as Kingston.

Turcot moved to Ottawa at the age of 20 to take a job in the civil service. Later, she became a journalist and writer, and also worked in broadcast journalism. She was active in several French-Canadian cultural organizations as well as a collector of Franco-Ontarian folk tales.

Originally from near Bordeaux, France, Jeanne Branda felt a calling to become a nun and a teacher. In 1899, she joined the Dominican Sisters of Nancy, where she took on the name Sister Marie Thomas d’Aquin. She moved to the United States and then, while visiting Ottawa in 1914, agreed to head the Jeanne d’Arc Institute.

This Scottish-born master mason came to Ottawa to work on the entrance locks of the Rideau Canal and the first bridge that spanned the Ottawa River to connect Ottawa and Hull (now Gatineau). McKay built his residence, Rideau Hall, in 1838 — which was purchased by the Government of Canada to become the official residence of the Governor General.

The longest street in the world was built by Ontario’s first lieutenant governor, John Graves Simcoe, to connect his recently founded Town of York with the naval base at Penetanguishene on Georgian Bay.