Creek Bank, Ontario

Creek Bank
Unincorporated rural community
Looking northeast on County Road 17 in Creek Bank
Looking northeast on County Road 17 in Creek Bank
Creek Bank is located in Canada
Creek Bank
Creek Bank
Location of Creek Bank in Canada
Creek Bank is located in Ontario
Creek Bank
Creek Bank
Creek Bank (Ontario)
Coordinates: 43°42′18″N 80°32′09″W / 43.70500°N 80.53583°W / 43.70500; -80.53583
CountryCanada
ProvinceOntario
CountyWellington
TownshipCentre Wellington
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
GNBC CodeFAUCX[1]

Creek Bank is an unincorporated rural community in Centre Wellington Township, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada.[1][2]

The settlement is located on Carroll Creek.[1]

History

The Fisher brothers, Alexander, John, and Michael, were pioneer settlers who arrived in the area in 1841.[3]

A post office was established in 1852, and mail was delivered daily to Creek Bank.[4][5] The post office closed in 1915.[4]

The Wesleyan Methodist Church was established in Creek Bank by the 1860s, located on a portion of the Fisher farm. The church was rebuilt in 1882 and renamed Bloomsbury Methodist Church. It operated until 1915, when it was dismantled and moved to Hollen, a town on the Conestogo River, 12 km (7.5 mi) west of Creek Bank.[3] An extant cemetery located near the former church has graves dating to the 1850s. The gravestones were assembled into a cairn in 1837, and a historical marker is located there.[6][7]

Creek Bank had a population of about 75 in 1867, and a blacksmith shop, hotel, and general store were located there. A stage coach passed twice daily between Elora and Hollen.[5]

A school, Roman Catholic Separate School #6, was located at Creek Bank around 1870.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Creek Bank". Natural Resources Canada. October 6, 2016.
  2. ^ "Guelph/Eramosa". Statistics Canada. November 2, 2016.
  3. ^ a b "WLL4352" (PDF). Ontario Genealogical Society. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Creek Bank". Library and Archives Canada. May 27, 2014.
  5. ^ a b Gazetteer and Directory of the County Of Wellington, 1867 (PDF). Irwin & Burnham. 1867. pp. 89, 90.
  6. ^ "Creek Bank Methodist Cemetery". CanadaGenWeb's Cemetery Project. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
  7. ^ Krassoc (January 8, 2015). "Bloomsbury Methodist Church – Wellington County, Ontario". Fadedgenes.
  8. ^ Bloomfield, Elizabeth (1989). Inventory of Primary and Archival Sources: Guelph and Wellington County to 1940. Guelph Regional Project. p. 129.