Rural Routes - Maitland

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Maitland, Ontario
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Ontario Tourism Region : The Great Waterway

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Pop. 465. In Augusta T., Leeds and Grenville Cs., on the St. Lawrence R. and C. Rds. 2 & 15, 8 km. NE of Brockville.
At Pointe au Barril (or Baril) on the outskirts of Maitland, a plaque marks the former site of a shipyard were the last ships to defend the river for France were built.
The six-acre (2.4 ha) shIpyard, budt by the French shortly after the British captured Fort Frontenac in 1758, was surrounded by a 12-foot-high (3.65 m) wall of upended logs.
In 1759 the last two French warships, the lroquoise and the Outaouaise, were launched. The frrst civilian community was founded by Ziba Phillips in 1818 and named Oswegatchie.
The place was also known as Johnstown and Lower Selma. When the post office was established in 1828, it was named Maitland after Sir Peregrine Maitland, lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada 1818-1828.
One of the oldest churches in the Anglican Diocese ofOntarlo is the Gothic Revival-style St. James' started in 1826 and consecrated in 1830.

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Off the beaten track:	Stones Corners, 4km South Augusta, 4km Bethel, Brockville area, 5km Blue Church, 7km Rows Corners, 6km Bisseltown, 8km Lords Mills, 9km Algonquin, 9km Sheridan Park, Brockville area, 8km Maynard, 10km Flanders Heights, 8km Windsor Heights, 8km Fairfield East, 9km Riverview Heights, 10km Loyalist Park, 9km Golf Side Gardens, 10km Glenmore, 12km	Charleville, 13km Fairfield, 10km Sparkle City, 13km Perrins Corners, 14km Manhard, 11km Herrons Corners, 13km Fernbank, Brockville area, 12km Domville, 15km Wexford, Prescott area, 13km Tincap, 11km Hillcrest, Brockville area, 13km McLeanville, 17km Throoptown, 17km Spring Valley, Brockville area, 13km Woodridge, Brockville area, 15km Roebuck, 19km Hallecks, 15km	Johnstown, Prescott area, 17km New Dublin, 15km Bellamys, 16km Crystal Rock, 20km South Branch, 21km Seeley, 16km Butternut Bay, 18km Garretton, 22km McRoberts Corner, 23km Glen Smail, 22km Sherwood Springs, 19km Spencerville, 24km Lillies, 18km Jellyby, 19km The Island, 25km Glen Buell, 18km
Nearby Lakes:	Buells Creek Reservoir, 9km Lambs Pond, 15km Lees Pond, 17km Mud Lake, 19km Centre Lake, 19km Atkins Lake, 23km Cranberry Lake, 25km Temperance Lake, 22km Graham Lake, 22km Lissons Lake, 30km Mud Lake, 26km Wiltse Lake, 27km Lake Eloida, 28km Irish Lake, 30km Mud Lake, 32km Basin Lake, 32km Charleston Lake, 34km	Bellamys Lake, 34km Dunbar Lake, 35km Green Lake, 35km Lake of the Isles, 43km Killenbeck Lake, 38km Bass Lake, 37km Higley Lake, 38km Upper Beverley Lake, 37km Red Horse Lake, 38km Little Long Lake, 38km Long Lake, 40km Mud Lake, 40km Bacchus Mud Lake, 43km Lyndhurst Lake, 41km South Mud Lake, 48km Singleton Lake, 42km Lower Beverley Lake, 42km	Otter Lake, 44km Mud Lake, 43km Lime Lake, 45km North Mud Lake, 53km Lower Rideau Lake, 47km Grippen Lake, 45km Bass Lake, 47km Little Lake, 46km Gananoque Lake, 48km Howard Lake, 49km Canton Lake, 48km Mill Pond, 48km Big Rideau Lake, 50km Deans Pond, 49km Long Island Lake, 50km Lost Lake, 50km

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