Rural Routes - Dorchester

4164 Catherine St.,
Dorchester, Ontario
N0L 1G0

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Pop. 2,756. In North Dorchester T., Middlesex c., on the Thames R. and C. Rds. 9 & 32,justN ofHwy 401,15 km. E of London.
William Reynolds is believed to have built Middlesex County's first log cabin in 1794 just west of here. A log tavern built in the 1820s was the first building on the townsite, fIrst called Edwardsburgh.
The first post office in 1855 was named Dorchester Station, shortened to Dorchester in 1861. The place was named in honour of Sir Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester, governor-in-chief of British North America, 1782-1783 and 1786-1796.
Dorchester's Donnybrook Fields was the site on Oct. 15, 1925, of the fustpublic initiation into the Ku Klux Klan ever held in Canada. Both Klansmen and new members were masked in white, hooded robes.
Hands on each other's shoulders, they circled the fIeld three times to the tune ofhynms played by a Klan band and then the new members (more than 100 residents of nearby London were reported to have joined) took the oath before an altar and flaming cross

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Off the beaten track:	Doon, 0km Blair, 2km Freeport, 3km Centreville, Kitchener Waterloo area, 5km Hagey, 4km Parkway, 4km Strasburg, 4km Orr's Lake, Cambridge area, 5km Stanley Park, 7km Preston, 5km Country Hills, 6km East Preston, 6km Heritage Park, Kitchener Waterloo area, 8km Alpine Village, Kitchener Waterloo area, 7km Reidsville, Cambridge area, 8km Idylwild, 7km Roseville, Cambridge area, 7km	Rockway, Kitchener Waterloo area, 7km Rosemount, Kitchener Waterloo area, 8km Williamsburg, Kitchener Waterloo area, 7km Reid's Mill, Cambridge area, 9km Kossuth, 9km Laurentian Hills, 7km Fisher Mills, 8km Victoria Hills, 9km Forest Hills, Kitchener Waterloo area, 9km Wrigley Corners, 11km Greenfield, Cambridge area, 11km Rosendale, 12km Forest Heights, 10km Bridgeport, 12km Shep's Subdivision, 11km Pinehurst Park, 14km Westmount, Kitchener Waterloo area, 12km	Mannheim, 11km Glenchristie, 12km Mosborough, 14km Barber's Beach, 12km Beechwood, Kitchener Waterloo area, 13km Littles Corners, 12km Maple Hills, Kitchener Waterloo area, 13km Waldau, 12km Little Lake, Cambridge area, 13km Perry's Corners, 15km Rummelhardt, 14km Lakeshore Village, 16km Winterbourne, 19km Wolverton, 18km Killean, 15km Aikensville, 15km
Nearby Lakes:	Orr's Lake, 6km Barrie's Lake, 6km Reid's Lake, 8km Blue Springs Pond, 9km McCrone's Lakes, 11km Bannister Lake, 11km Taylor Lake, 10km Wrigley's Lake, 11km Victoria Park Lake, 9km Millers Lake, 12km Jedburgh Pond, 12km Elliott's Lake, 11km Little Turnbull Lake, 12km Hillside Lake, 12km Despond Lakes, 12km Watson Pond, 12km Grass Lake, 12km	Mill Pond, 10km Moore Pond, 13km Deans Lake, 12km Cowan's Lake, 12km Cottrell Lake, 12km Turnbull Lake, 14km Pinehurst Lake, 14km Alder Lake, 11km Silver Lake, 13km Spottiswood Lakes, 16km Puslinch Lake, 12km Four Wells Lake, 14km Laurel Lake, 14km Little Lake, 13km Clair Lake, 14km Columbia Lake, 15km Watts Pond, 19km	Blue Lake, 19km O'neals Pond, 20km Laurel Creek Reservoir, 16km Hofstetter Lake, 16km Burgess Lake, 22km Spongy Lake, 18km Sunfish Lake, 20km Levey Lake, 27km Paradise Lake, 23km Guelph Lake, 27km Valens Reservoir, 22km Emerald Lake, 23km Pine Pond, 28km Maple Lake, 27km Buck Pond, 28km Park Haven Lake, 29km

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