Rural Routes - Fingal

238 Frances
Port Stanley, Ontario
N5L 1J1

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Pop. 358. In Southwold T., Elgin C., on C. Rds. 16 & 20, 14 km SW of St. Thomas.
The community is the oldest village in Southwold T. and was named by Col. Thomas Talbot after Fingal's Cave in the Hebrides in the Western Isles of Scotland.
(The Hebrides Overture by Mendelssohn is also known as Fingal's Cave.) The fIrst settler was Titus CowIe, who sold his land to Levi Fowler in the 1820s. In the 1830s Fowler laid out some village lots and opened a general store.
He went into partnership with Amasa Wood who, because of his habits of rising early and speaking loudly, was nicknamed the 'Town Bell.'
A town hall was built in 1852, and Levi Fowler was the frrst reeve. There was so much quarrelling at council meetings that the community was nicknamed the 'Devil's Half Acre.'
In 1889 a smallpox epidemic wiped out half the population of 1,000. Nearby St. Thomas was then growing rapidly, attracting industry and settlers, and Fingal never recovered.
Just outside Fingal is a unique double-walled aboriginal earthwork showing no trace of European influence. The fort's origin and history remain a mystery.

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Off the beaten track:	Shedden, 4km Frome, 6km Middlemarch, 6km Bairds, Shedden, 7km Iona, 7km Paynes Mills, 9km Paynes, St. Thomas area, 9km Port Talbot, 9km Mitchell Heights, 8km Erie Rest, 8km Invererie Heights, 9km North Ward, 9km Grimmonds Beach, 9km Talbotville Royal, 11km Southwold, 11km Whites, 9km Lawrence Station, 10km	Norman, 10km Orchard Beach, Port Stanley area, 10km Union, Port Stanley area, 10km Lynhurst, 12km Littlewood, 15km Lyndale, 12km Tempo, 16km Thames River Siding, 13km Lockwood Park, 17km Scottsville, 19km Wallacetown, 16km Sharon, London area, 20km Dexter, 15km Lawton's Corners, 15km Glanworth, 19km Tyrconnell, 18km Middlemiss, 16km	Yarmouth Centre, 17km Duttona Beach, 19km White Oak, 23km Delaware West, 23km Sparta, 19km Riverside, St. Thomas area, 19km Brockley, 24km Christina, 22km Glendale, London area, 26km Cleardale, 26km New Sarum, 20km Westmount, London area, 26km Hubrey, 24km Byron, 27km Southdale, 27km Southcrest Estates, 27km
Nearby Lakes:	Bell's Pond, 8km Union Pond, 9km Pinafore Lake, 11km Sanders Pond, 11km Walkers Pond, 27km Westminster Ponds, 27km Tennants Pond, 26km The Cove, 29km Pond Mills, 28km White's Pond, 22km Springwater Pond, 23km Foster Ponds, 31km Lake Erie, 33km Beattie Pond, 32km Mud Lakes, 33km Mill Pond, 36km Fanshawe Lake, 40km	Lake Whittaker, 36km The Mill Pond, 37km Mud Lake, 44km Spring Lake, 43km Sunova Lake, 59km Centreville Pond, 53km Lake Lisgar, 50km Wildwood Lake, 63km Embro Pond, 60km St. Josephs Lake, 51km Harrington Pond, 64km Morrison Lake, 73km Hodges Pond, 63km Mill Pond, 63km Lake Victoria, 79km McCarthy Lake, 79km Trout Lake, 74km	Trotters Lake, 75km Fowlers Pond, 76km Shakespeare Pond, 84km Buchanan Lake, 77km Buck Pond, 77km Park Haven Lake, 77km Maple Lake, 78km Pine Pond, 77km Cooley Pond, 76km Lake Hunger, 73km Burgess Lake, 84km Tricks Pond, 100km Levey Lake, 83km Spongy Lake, 96km Hofstetter Lake, 95km Peter's Pond, 81km

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