Beaverton, Brock Twp, Durham County, Ontario, Canda

Notes:
Beaverton was first settled in 1822. The settlement is located on Lake Simcoe at the mouth of the Beaver River. It was called Calder's Mills (after an early miller Duncan Miller and Alexander Calder), Mill Town and Milton until it was renamed Beaverton when the post office was opened in 1835.

By 1869, Beaverton was a village with a population of 700 in the Township of Thorah Township in Ontario County. It was the terminus of the Port Hope, Lindsay and Beaverton Railway in 1858. The steamer Emily May plied daily between Beaverton and Bell Ewart station of the Northern Railroad. There were stages daily to Whitby and Oshawa. In 1884, Beaverton separated from the Township and was incorporated as a Village.

Beaverton, 1910

As part of the creation of Durham Region in 1974, Beaverton was amalgamated with Thorah Township, the original Brock Township and the Villages of Cannington and Sunderland to create the newly expanded Township of Brock.

Birth

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	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Birth		Person ID
1	Andrus, Elvira Jane	16 Nov 1868	Beaverton, Brock Twp, Durham County, Ontario, Canda	I26215

Marriage

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	Family	Marriage		Family ID
1	Henderson / Kent	25 Dec 1876	Beaverton, Brock Twp, Durham County, Ontario, Canda	F17829