17581 Hwy 60, |
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Ontario Tourism Region : Ontario's Highlands
Description From Owner:
- Pop. 298. In Sherwood and Hagerty Ts., Renfrew C., on Hwy 60 and C. Rd. 66, 10 km. NE of Barry's Bay.
- The community is in a valley, surrounded by high hills. In 1864, 300 Poles left the adverse social and political conditions of their partitioned homeland and came to Renfrew C.
- They established a thriving agricultural community, and in the early 1900s their numbers were augmented by another wave of immigrants from Poland.
- In 1885 the post office opened as Wilno, after a town in Poland from which many of the settlers had come.
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