One of the big white churches on Main Street is the Methodist Church, which became Trinity United Church in 1925. While the United Church was the result of a merger of three churches in 1925, the Methodist Church was founded in 1824. The roots of the Methodist Church in Newmarket date back to 1824, when…
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Pickering College’s Roots Intertwined With Local Quakers
Pickering College has been part of the landscape in Newmarket since 1909, located on an approximately a 17-hectare (42-acre) property on Bayview Avenue, but it has been serving the educational needs of Ontario’s youth since 1842. Let us take a brief look at its illustrious history and hopefully gain a new appreciation for its Quaker…
Heritage Plaques Yours To Discover Throughout Newmarket
You may have noticed some of these heritage plaques around Newmarket, and some you may have never noticed but really should check out. There will be a little assignment for you at the end. ***** Eagle Street Pioneer Burying Ground plaque unveiled June 17, 1979. Erected by Newmarket Historical Committee under chairman Elman Campbell. PIONEER BURYING…
County Once Manned Toll Gates For Travel Along Yonge
Rather than focus on one topic this week, I am sharing several interesting “did you know” items that I have found during my research — facts many of you likely didn’t know about Newmarket. Previously, I have written about the rise of the subdivision on the fertile farms that surrounded Newmarket. At the end of the Second…
Ila Haines Kept Memories Alive Of Growing Up In Early 1900s Newmarket
I want to touch on one of the real pleasures of getting involved in our local history: the incredible people you chance to meet. Very few of you who grew up in Newmarket and area do not know the name Ila Haines. I want to share my recollections of two conversations I had with Miss…
Three Early Newmarket Business ‘Survivors’ Thrive Today
Over the last year, I have written about the effects of fire and flood and other misadventures that have altered the landscape of Newmarket, as well as highlighted businesses and merchants of old and their contributions to the growth of our community. This week I want to take a brief look at three survivors, companies…
Three Early Newmarket Business ‘Survivors’ Thrive Today
Over the last year, I have written about the effects of fire and flood and other misadventures that have altered the landscape of Newmarket, as well as highlighted businesses and merchants of old and their contributions to the growth of our community. This week I want to take a brief look at three survivors, companies…
Let’s Go Back To A Year Of Change For Newmarket: 1906
Thanks to input from our readers, I get great ideas for future articles and, this weekend, I bring you one of those ideas. The concept is to pick a year from our past and detail what happened in Newmarket that year. I have chosen 1906, a year, I would argue, that was the beginning of…
Meeting Houses Reminder Of Newmarket’s Early Quaker Settlers
Three Quaker meeting houses stand front and centre for having a key role in our past. A huge wave of immigrants from the Pennsylvania area of the United States began arriving in our area beginning in 1801. Known as the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), they established homesteads along Yonge Street from Aurora to Newmarket…
Architect John Stokes Helped Shape Face Of Early Newmarket
We are travelling back to the year 1849, when a young man who would have a profound influence on Newmarket and what was then York County arrived from England and took up residence in what is now Sharon. John Stokes was one of Newmarket’s most respected businessmen and a prolific architect, whose designs of places…
