Havelock-Belmont-Methuen
| Havelock-Belmont-Methuen | |
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| Township (lower-tier) | |
| Township of Havelock-Belmont-Methuen | |
Municipal office in Havelock
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 Havelock-Belmont-Methuen
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| Coordinates: 44°34′N 77°54′W / 44.567°N 77.900°WCoordinates: 44°34′N 77°54′W / 44.567°N 77.900°W | |
| Country |
 Canada
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| Province |
 Ontario
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| County | Peterborough |
| Settled | 1823 |
| Incorporated | 1998 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Township |
| • Reeve | Ronald Gerow |
| • Federal riding | Peterborough |
| • Prov. riding | Peterborough |
| Area | |
| • Land | 543.59 km2 (209.88 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 4,523 |
| • Density | 8.3/km2 (21/sq mi) |
| Time zone | EST (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| Postal Code | K0L 1Z0 |
| Area code(s) | 705 |
| Website | www.havelockbelmont methuen.on.ca |
Havelock-Belmont-Methuen is a township in central-eastern Ontario, Canada, in Peterborough County. It was formed on January 1, 1998, through the amalgamation of Belmont and Methuen Township with the Village of Havelock.
The region's history began with an influx of settlers after Belmont and Methuen Township was surveyed in 1823. The community of Havelock, which was named after British general Sir Henry Havelock, was incorporated as an independent village in 1892.
Early settlers built their homes in an area of dense forests, numerous lakes and rivers within the rocky Canadian Shield. They survived by means of fishing, logging and farming.
By 1869, Blairton was a Village with a population of 500 in the Township of Belmont County. The village was in the immediate vicinity of the richest iron mines in the Dominion and miners and laborers were in great demand. The village was a Station of the Cobourg Peterboro and Marmora Railroad. The land in the vicinity was almost all taken up. There were stages to Norwood and Marmora.
Later in the nineteenth century and continuing to the present, mining became an important economic activity. Early businesses in Havelock included a post office, store, bakery, a blacksmith and a millinery and were located south of the current village on high ground at the intersection of County Road 30 and Old Norwood Road. In 1881, the Canadian Pacific Railway surveyed a right-of-way through the area north of Havelock and a year later laid rails and surveyed and filled the swampy land to make room for a larger village. The current village of Havelock was developed on the filled land by the tracks north of the former village site and was incorporated in 1892. In the fall of 1884, the first full passenger train stopped at Havelock, from Toronto on its way to Smith's Falls. Havelock was an important freight depot from the 1880s to the 1960s. The railway is now run by Canadian Pacific as Kawartha Lakes Railway and its activity today consists of transporting nepheline syenite and crushed basalt rock from two mines north of Havelock operated by Unimin. In 1998, the village of Havelock was amalgamated with the township of Belmont-Methuen to form the current township of Havelock-Belmont-Methuen.
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