Rural Routes - Caledonia

13 Caithness St W.
Caledonia, Ontario
N3W 1B7

Ontario Tourism Region : Southwestern

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Pop. 4,237. Part of the Town of Haldimand, Reg. Mun. of Haldimand-Norfolk, on the Grand R. and Hwy 6 and C. Rd. 54, 22 km SW of Hamilton.
The first settler, Ronald McKinnon, arrived in 1835 and worked for the Grand River Navigation Company.
The community was called Seneca until 1880, from the First Nations Peoples word sinaka, meaning 'stone snakes.' Caledonia is a poetic form of an early name for Scotland.
In 2006, protesters from the Six Nations of the Grand River started a demonstration to raise awareness of First Nation land claims in Ontario and particularly about their claim to a parcel of land here.
The 40-hectare area was to have been developed by Henco Industries Ltd. into a residential subdivision.
It is part of a 385,000 hectare area known as the Haldimand Tract which was granted in 1784 by the, Crown to Six Nations ofthe Grand River.
Henco argues that the Six Nations surrendered their rights to the land in 1841 and Henco purchased the land from the Crown. Six Nations maintain that their title to the land was never relinquished.
There have been highway blockages and other disturbances over the years and the area is monitored round the clock by the Ontario Provincial Police. The Federal government says the matter is provincial.
The provincial government claims the matter is federal.

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Nearby Lakes:	Lake Niapenco, 9km Dry Lake, 15km Dunmark Lake, 18km West Pond, 22km Christie Reservoir, 24km Victoria Lake, 22km Mohawk Lake, 24km Gulliver's Lake, 33km Lake Medad, 34km Fisher's Pond, 35km Carlisle Pond, 36km Progreston Pond, 36km Smiths Mill Pond, 29km McClures Lake, 41km Valens Reservoir, 38km Silver Lake, 37km Vivians Pond, 32km	Emerald Lake, 41km Waterford Ponds, 33km Crawford Lake, 44km Mountsberg Reservoir, 44km Willow Lake, 33km Blue Lake, 36km Campbellville Pond, 47km Crystal Lake, 38km Sutton's Pond, 38km Kelso Lake, 49km Cottrell Lake, 40km Cowan's Lake, 40km Dils Lake, 36km Deans Lake, 40km Mill Pond, 50km Grass Lake, 41km Spottiswood Lakes, 39km	Taylor Lake, 42km Elliott's Lake, 41km Puslinch Lake, 46km Little Lake, 46km Watts Pond, 40km Pinehurst Lake, 42km O'neals Pond, 40km Millers Lake, 43km Moore Pond, 42km Despond Lakes, 43km Hillside Lake, 43km Bannister Lake, 43km Wrigley's Lake, 43km Barrie's Lake, 46km Orr's Lake, 46km Scotch Block Reservoir, 56km

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