Frogmore, Ontario

Frogmore, Ontario is a hamlet that is located northwest of Valley Heights Secondary School. Agriculture is the main industry and commerce is non-existent. It is one of the westernmost communities in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada.

Frogmore's earliest known inhabitants, from around the year 1000 until approximately 300–350 years later, were the Algonquin nation. They were noted flint-workers and evidence of their skill in crafting arrowheads is still to be found in open worked field areas surrounding the village. The next wave of inhabitants were the Attawandaron nation, the Neutrals, who occupied the region from about 1350 until their absorption by the Iroquois in the year 1651. The last significant native nation to occupy the area was the Mississaugas.

In 2001, Haldimand-Norfolk was dissolved into two separate single-tier counties. Frogmore became part of the newly formed County of Norfolk.

Summary

This community has approximately 147 people; a sizeable population of them are German Mennonites and Mexican Mennonites. Named in 1886 after one of Queen Victoria's residences in Hampshire, England.[1]

Only six wind turbines, carrying approximately 9 MW of electricity have been placed in the vicinity.[2] No more can be built in this area due to a county-wide ban on wind turbines passed in 2013.[3] Even without the threat of wind turbines, this community is completely shielded from urban development threats due to its isolation from major communities like Simcoe, Delhi and Tillsonburg.

The popular tourist destination of Port Burwell is just a 30 minutes' drive to the southwest of this community. Another historic community, Sparta, along with the St. Thomas Raceway Park lies 45 minutes to the southwest from Frogmore.

Climate

The winter of 1975 was the only unusually mild winter in the region from 1897 to 1977.[4] From the late 1990s onwards, mild winters became a more common thing due to changes in the Earth's climate zones. Frogmore traditionally belongs to the humid continental climate zone, even with the recent epidemic of mild winters and extremely warm and dry summers. As in all communities, towns and cities throughout the world, global warming due to human industrial activity has drastically altered the climate of Frogmore over the decades.

Should the sea levels rise by 60 metres or 200 feet, Frogmore would not be affected by flooding.[5] However, it may be affected by droughts as a by-product of the dislocation of available fresh water and may be forced to rely on desalinated salt water piped in from the Eastern United States. Constructing the proper infrastructure to carry the water hundreds of miles away would take considerable manpower along with significant economic costs and an unprecedented level of cooperation from multiple federal, state/provincial, and municipal governments.

References

  1. ↑ Basic information at Rural Routes
  2. ↑ Frogmore Wind Project Archived 2010-12-23 at the Wayback Machine. at Canadian Wind Energy Association
  3. ↑ "Norfolk Seeks End to Turbine Development". Retrieved 2013-05-15.
  4. ↑ "Maximum Freezing Degree-Days as a Winter Severity Index for the Great Lakes, 1897–1977". American Meteorological Society. Retrieved 2017-11-12.
  5. ↑ "Impact of global warming on Frogmore, Ontario". Firetree. Retrieved 2012-07-02.
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