Special Features

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This article states that it wishes to "...present in brief form a description of Acton with a short review of the manufacturing and mercantile businesses located within its borders."

Georgetown Herald, 17 December 1913: "Georgetown: A Busy Manufacturing Community"

With listings of local industries and services, residents, schools and churches, this article claims "...there is probably not another village in Canada possessing so many manufacturing concerns as does Georgetown... Georgetown has been specially fortunate in possessing public-spirited citizens who have worked together to the upbuilding of the community, instead of jealously opposing progressive movements if they did not mean personal emolument."

The Kennedy Family of Georgetown

This page contains extracts from:

• Annals of the Forty, No.5; Grimsby Historical Society, 1954.
• Georgetown Herald, April 16, 1924; L. Grant.
• "The Kennedys: What brought them to this area?"; Collections 1, Esquesing Historical Society, 1984
• Georgetown's Oldest Church; Richard E. Ruggle
• "Reminiscences of Georgetown"; C.W. Young
• Christian Guardian, Sept. 19,1849

Toronto Daily Mail, 24 June 1893: Feature supplement on Georgetown

This article also lists local churches, schools, business-men and places, praising Georgetown as "...one of the most prosperous and enterprising places of its size in the province of Ontario... Georgetown is the geographical and commercial centre of a population numbering something over four thousand souls."

Brampton, Georgetown and Acton - 1917, "A Descriptive Review of a Number of Manufacturing and Mercantile Interests Located in the above named Live Wire Towns in Peel and Halton Counties"