Huntsville was named after Captain George Hunt, a British military officer who retired to the area in 1869 where he was appointed the first local Postmaster, and his stepmother became a teacher at the first school house.
Although now part of Niagara Region, Thorold used to be part of Lincoln County and was settled by United Empire Loyalists, which is how the name came to be connected to the lord representing Lincolnshire.
March 31 is National #IndigenousLanguages Day.
We Are Here: Sharing Stories is creating and sharing digital copies of Indigenous language learning material to support Indigenous communities’ language revitalization efforts.
Here is just one example: https://t.co/ySEZPJKPeo
On this National #IndigenousLanguages Day, let’s honour and celebrate the vital role that Indigenous languages play in shaping the identity, culture, and traditional knowledge of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in Canada.
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Many of Canada's municipalities take their names from Indigenous languages. It's one way that these languages and their speakers are embedded into the identity of our communities.
Hastings was Baron Rawdon, Earl of Moira who became Marquess of Hastings in Sussex, England in 1817.
The English name Hastings comes from an Old English word Hæstingas meaning “the followers of Hæsta”, one of the Anglo-Saxon tribes in Britain.
Lesueur named it after Washington Irving’s 1822 novel “Bracebridge Hall, or the Humorists”. The novel was a series of character sketches about the occupants of a fictional English manor.