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 Shedden     
 Shedden, ON (Nearby: Fingal, Southwold, Iona Station, Talbotville Royal, Muncey)

 
 

9557 Union Rd,
Shedden, Ontario
N0L 2E0

Ontario Tourism Region : Southwestern

Phone : (519) 764-2081
E-Mail : Click Here to E-Mail us
Outside Web Page : http://www.library.elgin-county.on.ca/shedden/index.html
Your Host(s) : Shedden Public Library

Description From Owner:

  • Ontario's Rhubarb Capital-Home of the Rosy Rhubarb Festival!
  • Pop. 313. In Southwold T., Elgin c., on C. Rds. 3 & 20, 15 km SW of St. Thomas. The place was first called Wilkie's Corners after settler James Wilkie.
  • When the post office opened in 1875 it was named Corseley.
  • In 1883 the name changed to Shedden after John Shedden, a local stock grower and president of the Toronto and Nipissing RR, accidentally killed while boarding a train near Lindsay.
  • From Ontario Place Names 2007 David E. Scott Ph. 866 471 4123 or 905 680 7884


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Off the beaten track:
 
  • Bairds, Shedden, 3km
  • Frome, 4km
  • Iona, 6km
  • Southwold, 8km
  • Lawrence Station, 6km
  • Paynes Mills, 7km
  • Middlemarch, 7km
  • Paynes, St. Thomas area, 8km
  • Port Talbot, 11km
  • Thames River Siding, 9km


  • Nearby Lakes:
     
  • Bell's Pond, 12km
  • Union Pond, 13km
  • Pinafore Lake, 13km
  • Sanders Pond, 15km
  • The Cove, 26km
  • Walkers Pond, 25km
  • Westminster Ponds, 25km
  • Pond Mills, 26km
  • Tennants Pond, 25km
  • White's Pond, 25km

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