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St. George, Ontario
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Ontario Tourism Region : Hamilton, Halton, and Brant

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Pop. 270. In South Dumfries T., Brant C., on Fairchild Cr., 14 km. NE of Brant ford. Originally known as Vroomania, after the first settler,
A. N. Vrooman who arrived in 1855. For a time the place was called Carstairs, but later named Harrisburg after the Harris family, one of whom was the blacksmith.
Harrisburg came into being as a shipping point on the Great Western Railway. The train station was located in a deep cut with no road leading to it so freight had to be lowered down a slide.
In the early 1850s a branch line was built to Galt. Harrisburg grew and a town site was laid out before it was discovered there was not enough water to service both a town and the locomotives.
The Great Western Railway moved its terminal to Hamilton. In 1882 the Grand Trunk Railway took over the line and built a new station at Harrisburg, this time with a roadway leading to it.

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Off the beaten track:	Harrisburg, 0km Troy, Brantford area, 4km Bruces, 6km Osborne Corners, 6km Tranquility, 8km Wyndham Hills, 8km Echo Place, 10km Cainsville, 10km Sheffield, 10km Fairview, Brantford area, 9km Terrace Hill, 10km Langford, 10km Rockton, 10km Tutela Heights, 12km Holmedale, 12km Eagle Place, 12km West Brant, 12km	Littles Corners, 14km Shep's Subdivision, 13km Kirkwall, 15km Newport, 16km Onondaga, 15km Clyde, 17km Peters Corners, 13km Summit, Ancaster area, 13km Westover, 15km Valens, 18km Sour Spring, 20km Killean, 20km Burtch, 20km Wrigley Corners, 15km Christies Corner, 15km Pinehurst Park, 15km Trinity, 16km	Middleport, 18km Mineral Springs, 16km Little Lake, Cambridge area, 21km Smith's Corners, 22km Orr's Lake, Cambridge area, 19km Barber's Beach, 21km Aikensville, 22km West Flamborough, 17km Crieff, 22km East Preston, 20km St. Johns, Brantford area, 21km Preston, 21km Maple Grove, Shelburne area, 22km Sixty-Nine Corners, 23km East Oakland, 23km Victoria Mills, 24km
Nearby Lakes:	Mohawk Lake, 11km Blue Lake, 10km Dunmark Lake, 11km Cottrell Lake, 12km Cowan's Lake, 12km Deans Lake, 12km Grass Lake, 13km Taylor Lake, 14km Spottiswood Lakes, 13km Elliott's Lake, 14km Valens Reservoir, 18km Millers Lake, 15km Pinehurst Lake, 15km Bannister Lake, 16km Despond Lakes, 15km Moore Pond, 15km Hillside Lake, 15km	Wrigley's Lake, 16km Barrie's Lake, 18km Puslinch Lake, 21km Watts Pond, 16km Christie Reservoir, 16km Orr's Lake, 18km Little Lake, 22km Emerald Lake, 21km O'neals Pond, 16km Turnbull Lake, 17km Victoria Lake, 24km McCrone's Lakes, 18km Little Turnbull Lake, 18km Mill Pond, 24km Smiths Mill Pond, 24km Gulliver's Lake, 21km Jedburgh Pond, 20km	Watson Pond, 20km Vivians Pond, 25km Reid's Lake, 21km Willow Lake, 25km Carlisle Pond, 26km Mountsberg Reservoir, 29km West Pond, 23km Levey Lake, 24km Progreston Pond, 27km McClures Lake, 30km Waterford Ponds, 35km Blue Springs Pond, 32km Alder Lake, 30km Burgess Lake, 28km Campbellville Pond, 35km Lake Medad, 30km

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