Norwich, Ontario

The Township of Norwich is a municipality located in Oxford County in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. The preferred pronunciation of the town name is /ˈnɔːrwɪtʃ/ NOR-witch, which differs from the pronunciation /ˈnɒrɪdʒ/ NORR-ij used for the city of Norwich, England. The origin of Norwich, Ontario, is more likely Norwich in upper New York State, the area from which the pioneering families emigrated in the early 19th century, where the community was known as Norwichville.

See also: Norwich (disambiguation)
Norwich
Township (lower-tier)
Township of Norwich
Motto(s): 
Beautiful, Agricultural, Historical
Norwich
Coordinates: 42°59′N 80°36′W
[CountryCanada
ProvinceOntario
CountyOxford
Government
 • MayorLarry Martin [1]
 • Councillors
 • MPsDave Mackenzie
 • MPPsErnie Hardeman
Area
 • Land431.27 km2 (166.51 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[2]
 • Total11,001
 • Density25.5/km2 (66/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC−05:00 (EST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−04:00 (EDT)
Postal Code
N0J 1P0, N0J 1P1, N0J 1P2
Area code(s)519 and 226
Websitewww.norwich.ca

Oxford County Road 59 (formerly Highway 59) is the major north–south highway through much of the township, including the community of Norwich proper.

The local economy is largely agricultural, based on corn, soybean, and wheat production with dairy farming in the north part of the township and tobacco, vegetable, and ginseng farming to the south. Slowly, ginseng and traditional cash crops are replacing the former cash crop - tobacco, as demand shrinks.

Communities

Formerly East Oxford, North and South Norwich, Townships, Norwich includes the communities of Beaconsfield, Bond's Corners, Brown's Corners, Burgessville, Cornell, Creditville, Curries, Eastwood, Hawtrey, Hink's Corners, Holbrook, Milldale, Muir, Newark, New Durham, Norwich, Oriel, Otterville, Oxford Centre, Rock's Mills, Rosanna, Springford, Summerville, Blows, and Vandecar.

History

Upon his arrival in the province in 1792, the first proclamation issued by John Graves Simcoe, the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada while still at Kingston, announced the names and boundaries he had decided upon as political boundaries for Upper Canada. For areas lying to the west of Kingston, he decided that county names would be a "mirror of Britain". To accomplish this, the sequence of names for counties along Lake Ontario became Northumberland, Durham, York and Lincoln, and for counties along Lake Erie, the names became Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Kent. (This was the same sequence of county names in place along the eastern seacoast of England, running from the Scottish boundary down to the English Channel.) The proclamation defined the northern boundary of Norfolk County as being the Thames River. Norwich and Dereham townships were originally within the land area designated as belonging to Norfolk County in Upper Canada, and were named after the towns of Norwich and Dereham in Norfolk County in England.[3]

Gov. Simcoe with several other government officers, guided by a party of Six Nations warriors, conducted a wilderness tour on foot down and back up the length of the Thames River in 1793 and decided to assign additional place names to mirror those they knew along the Thames River in England. Middlesex County was the name assigned to the area around a town site reserved at the "lower forks" in the river, to be called London; Dorchester was the name for a town site at the "middle forks", and the area around the "upper forks" was to be Oxford - the same sequence of names as found along the Thames in England. When legislation was passed in Upper Canada in 1798 to implement these new divisions, Norwich and Dereham were separated from Norfolk County and added to the new Oxford County, which included also Burford, Blenheim, Blandford and Oxford townships - names drawn from Oxfordshire in England.[4]

Shortly after returning from this tour, Simcoe received in March 1793 a petition from Thomas Ingersoll and associates asking for grant of a township to which they promised to bring settlers from New England. Simcoe was impressed that the list of associates in the group was headed by the name of Gideon Bostwick, a well-known Church of England (Anglican) missionary in Massachusetts, and the group was granted the township of Oxford-on-the-Thames. The only way to bring settlers into such a wilderness area township was to first build a road from Brantford up to the Thames River, a distance of 30 mi (48 km), and Thomas Ingersoll arranged that work over the course of the next two years, involving numerous journeys back and forth by those involved. In all of this, the first ones to become permanently settled in the township were likely Samuel Canfield Sr. and his wife and sons, who agreed to make their new home into a half-way stopping point for travellers along the road, at what became known as Oxford Centre. This is commemorated with plaques at the cemetery there and in front of the elementary school a short distance to the east along what is now known as "The Old Stage Road".[5]

The Bostwicks, Ingersolls and Canfields were all New England families who had made their start in the New World in the 1600s, and frontier living had been second nature to them for generations. The Bostwicks and Canfields were kinfolk by marriage and as community leaders in several places. Samuel Canfield Sr. was particularly valuable to the Oxford settlement because he had already lived the life of starting a new settlement in the mountains of New Hampshire. In the early 1770s he and wife Lucy joined a group of Connecticut families who had been granted the wilderness township of Marlow there, and Samuel soon became a town leader, elected one of the selectmen for the community and appointed captain of the local militia company. When the War of Independence came, he rallied the company to support the Continental Army. For this he is still revered as a local hero in Marlow.[6]

For he and his family, however, the Marlow years also brought sorrow, because three daughters died and are buried there, two of them lost together in a house fire in 1789.[7] Samuel complained of hearing voices which eventually drove him to quit Marlow, and the family was living in southern Vermont by the time Gideon Bostwick was traveling his Anglican mission circuit which reached there, spreading word of the township grant which had been received in far-away Oxford. Samuel and family agreed to join the new venture, but he brought with him his own faith as a Baptist. He had been a Baptist preacher in Marlow, a community which had been drawn to a missionary named Caleb Blood in the early 1770s, and Caleb Blood[8] became the first Baptist missionary in western Upper Canada thirty years later.[9]

Settlement in the former Norwich Township came more than fifteen years after Oxford Township. The Norwich settlement was founded by two men: Peter Lossing and Peter De Long. Both were from New York. Peter Lossing's house was the first one in Norwich. It now stands by the old Quaker Meeting House. Both men where Quakers. The town of Norwich commenced as a completely Quaker settlement.

In 1799, the Township of Norwich was laid out by surveyor William Hambly into lines and concessions and 200-acre (0.81 km2) lots. The post office dates from 1829 onward.[10] The township was divided into North and South Norwich Townships in 1855.

The Norwich Quaker Settlement
Quaker Cap
Description of Quaker settlement in Norwich township, from Gourlay's Statistical Account of Upper Canada, published in 1822

In 1809 Peter Lossing, a member of the Society of Friends from Dutchess County, New York, visited Norwich Township, and in June, 1810, with his brother-in-law, Peter De Long, purchased 15,000 acres (61 km2) of land in this area. That autumn Lossing brought his family to Upper Canada and early in 1811 settled in Norwich Township. The De Long family and nine others, principally from Dutchess County, joined Lossing the same year and by 1820 an additional group of about fifty had settled within the tract. Many were Quakers and a frame meeting house, planned in 1812, was erected in 1817. These resourceful pioneers founded one of the most successful Quaker communities in Upper Canada.

The Otterville grist mill and Otter Creek sawmills

The first mill on the site was built, in 1807, by partners John Earle and Paul Averill Jr. The Averill family was from the Great Barrington area in Massachusetts, where Thomas Ingersoll had lived before coming to Oxford. Paul Averill, Sr. had developed mills in Townsend township in the 1790s. John Earle married Paul's daughter Mary and with Paul Averill Jr. managed the Townsend mills. In 1806, Earle purchased the land surrounding the mill site at Otterville and with his brother-in-law Paul (sometimes referred to as Paul Avery) built the first grist mill on the site. The mill standing today, built in 1845 by Edward Bullock and Herbert Hilliard Cameron Tufford, is run by water power supplied by a dam on the river. The South Norwich Historical Society, on a lease basis, maintains this historic site and offers tours on request. Located in the centre of the village, the mill and its surrounding meadow is the site of an annual barbecue.

The pioneers of Oxford Township were slow to develop mills because of lack of any easy mode of transportation to send products to market, but Norwich township had the natural benefit of Otter Creek running through the township on a course which flowed south to Lake Erie and what became the harbour at Port Burwell. By the 1820s there were several sawmills along the creek in Norwich Township, supplying not only local needs but also rafting sawn timber and lumber down the creek to Port Burwell, for export to New York state.

Dairy farming and cheese factories

Oxford Township's pioneer farms were already famous for butter and cheese-making before the War of 1812, and Norwich Township's Quaker pioneers were quick to follow. In response to a questionnaire from author and agitator Robert Gourlay in 1817, Norwich farmers submitted a detailed chart showing the progress in the Quaker settlement in its first five years, which Gourlay published in his book about conditions in Upper Canada (see chart on this page). It shows that the 11 pioneer Quaker families brought with them more cows (28) than horses or oxen, and after five years had nearly tripled the number of cows being kept.[11]

By the 1840s, dairy farmers in Oxford, Norwich and Dereham townships were competing each year for top honours at agricultural fairs around the province for butter and cheese-making prizes. In the 1860s, Norwich farmers were the first in Canada to adopt the American factory system for cheese-making, with two different approaches competing for acceptance. Andes Smith took the approach of contracting with other farmers to buy their milk and haul it to a factory on his farm using a tanker wagon. Whatever profit or loss came from manufacturing cheese was his own. Harvey Farrington was a cheese factory specialist who had come to Norwich from New York state, and at his factory outside Norwichville he contracted with farmers to haul their milk to him and receive payment based on what came from cheese sales after Farrington deducted two cents per pound for his services in running the factory and making the cheese. Smith was first and was the more innovative one, gaining international recognition in 1865 for manufacturing a 4,000 lb (1,800 kg) cheese, but he went bankrupt the following year. Farrington's co-op system became the good news story that ended up being immortalized in published histories and on historical plaques.[12]

Amalgamation

In 1975, Oxford County underwent countywide municipal restructuring. The Village of Norwich and the Townships of East Oxford, North Norwich and South Norwich were amalgamated to create the Township of Norwich.

The Tornado of 1979

On August 7, 1979 at around 7:00 pm, Norwich was struck by the Woodstock Tornado, one of the largest tornadoes ever to occur in Southern Ontario. The storm cut a path of destruction across Norwich Township from Blows to New Durham, leaving the community of Oxford Centre in a state of total destruction. Several homes, the General Store, Anglican church and the Community Hall were levelled. The United Church at the top of the hill had its roof taken completely off and extensive interior damage, but all seven stained glass windows were left intact. One of the homes damaged was that of the last Ingersoll family member resident in the county, and narrowly missed destroying a cherished family keepsake album, which afterwards underwent conservation work at the Oxford County Archives and is now proudly displayed at the museum in Ingersoll. Two people lost their lives that day and one senior succumbed a few months later, never returning from hospital. All that remained of Oxford Centre's Anglican church was the foundation and one door hanging from its frame. Neighbours, even people from miles away were kind enough to return little bits of the original church, which was built in 1867. A silver paten and silver flagon, the communion rail, a credenza and parts of two of the stained glass windows along with a few other artifacts were recovered and are now displayed in the Narthex. The Church was soon rebuilt to the original plans. The F4 tornado, which had its beginning north west of Woodstock cut a swath all the way to Waterford of approximately 60 km and at its widest point near Oxford Centre was about 400m wide.

The Norwich Tornado of 1998

On the afternoon of June 2, 1998, a severe weather outbreak affected Southern Ontario. At around 3:50 pm, there was a report of a tornado touching down in Holbrook and heading straight for Norwich. The tornado hit Norwich around 4:05 pm, damaging trees, farm equipment, barns, houses, and the wooden Holy Trinity Anglican Church (1867). Three people were injured, and the next day, Environment Canada confirmed that an F2 or F3 tornado had hit the village. Following a decision by the parish, Holy Trinity Anglican Church was not rebuilt as the congregation opted to join with St. John's Anglican Church, Otterville. However, a stone monument commemorating the church continues to mark the site.[13]

Demographics
Canada census – Norwich, Ontario community profile
2016 2011 2006
Population: 11,001 (2.6% from 2011) 10,721 (2.3% from 2006) 10,481 (0.0% from 2001)
Land area: 431.27 km2 (166.51 sq mi) 431.28 km2 (166.52 sq mi) 431.28 km2 (166.52 sq mi)
Population density: 25.5/km2 (66/sq mi) 24.9/km2 (64/sq mi) 24.3/km2 (63/sq mi)
Median age: 35.7 (M: 34.9, F: 36.4) 38.8 (M: 35.1, F: 36.5) 35.5 (M: 34.9, F: 36.3)
Total private dwellings: 3,715 3719 3555
Median household income: $61,810
References: 2016[14] 2011[15] 2006[16] earlier[17]

Population trend:[18]

  • Population in 2016: 11,001
  • Population in 2011: 10,721
  • Population in 2006: 10,481
  • Population in 2001: 10,478
  • Population in 1996: 10,611 (or 10,560 when adjusted to 2001 boundaries)
  • Population in 1991: 10,146

Local government

The township government, Norwich Township Council, consists of four councillors based on wards and a mayor. Norwich has four wards: Ward 1 is South Norwich including Otterville. Ward 2 consists of the Village of Norwich. Ward 3 is North Norwich which is the middle portion of township including Burgessville but excluding Norwich village. Ward 4 is East Oxford, it consists of the northern portion of township, including Oxford Centre. As of 2018, the elected council consists of:[19]

Mayor: Larry Martin

Councillors:

  • Ward 1: John Scholten
  • Ward 2: Lynne Deplancke
  • Ward 3: Jim Palmer
  • Ward 4: Alan Dale

The Township offices, opened in January 2015, are located on Airport Road in the community of Norwich.

For provincial and federal elections, Norwich is included in the riding of 'Oxford'. Currently, the Federal MP of Oxford is Dave MacKenzie and the Provincial MPP is Ernie Hardeman.

Attractions
Underground Railway Cemetery
  • The Norwich and District Museum: The Norwich and District Museum is one of Ontario's longest operating rural community museums and contains a collection of artifacts relating to the agricultural and social history of the area. The museum is actually housed inside a former meeting house (built in 1889) which was donated by The Society of Friends to the Pioneer Society for this purpose.
  • Emily Stowe Public School : Opened in late 2012, the school now consists of kindergarten to grade 8.
  • Norwich District High School : Norwich District High School, home to the Norwich Knights, was opened in 1952 in the south end of the village of Norwich. On October 28, 2008 Thames Valley District School Board trustees made the decision to close Norwich District High School due to declining enrollment in the area and the school board at large. A reunion for past NDHS alumni was held on June 5–6, 2010. The school is now called Emily Stowe Public School.
  • Grand Trunk Railway Station Museum and Blacksmith Shop: The South Norwich Historical Society has restored this 1875 station to its condition as an 1881 Grand Trunk Railway station. The waiting room and office are restored authentically, the baggage room is an interpretation room for displays of the area's history. Permanent displays feature railway construction of the 1880s with many artifacts of all periods. The Underground Railroad and early Black settlement of the area is another highlight, as well as the story of early Quaker heritage in the area.
  • Early black settlement cemetery: In 1982 during the 175th celebrations of the community, a plaque was placed at the cemetery to commemorate the black settlement of freed families who made their homes in this area.
  • Otterville Park: Just north of the main corner, and through the stone gates, is 10 acres (40,000 m2) of parklands graced with tall pines, with a swimming pool, ball diamond, horseshoe pitch, tennis and basketball courts, and children's playground.
  • Norwich Tigers: Playing out of Dillon Park as of 2014 are the Norwich Tigers (formerly the Mt. Elgin Mets and Tillsonburg Tigers). They are part of the Tri-Counties Men's Fastball league, with Thursday and Sunday nights designated as home games.

Historical landmarks
  • Big Otter Creek Bridge: Lot 14, con 10, Middletown Line, South of Cornell. This bridge over the Big Otter Creek is one of the few remaining examples of a pony truss steel bridge construction, among the first of its kind built in Ontario (1900).
  • David Start House: 465141 Curries Road
  • Emigh/Stam House, Holbrook: 593806 Oxford Road 59
  • The Freeman House: 23 Main St. E, Norwich
  • Hall/Munro House: 9 Cook St., Norwich
  • Hawtrey Store: 812227 Baseline Road
  • Imrie/Gilvesy House: 144760 Potters Road
  • Innis House - Innisfree Farm
  • Moore/Chambers House: 8 Main St. E, Norwich
  • Nix/Freeman House: 25 Main St. W., Norwich
  • Otterville's Historic Bank: 202 Main St E, Otterville
  • Otterville Mill (Bullock grist mill): N 1/2 Lot 11 Con 9 (S. Norwich), 243 Main St. W, Otterville
  • Samuel Burtis House (Burtis/Larmon House): 385432 Oxford Road 59, Burgessville
  • Snyder/Deer House: 24 Church St W, Burgessville
  • Springford Store: 407 Main St, Springford
  • Sutton/Clark House: 345458 Quaker St., Norwich

Historical cemeteries
Quaker St burying ground
  • African Methodist Episcopal Cemetery : North of Otterville. 1829. Historical Plaque here to commemorate the Black Settlement of freed families who made their homes in this area.
  • Burgessville Baptist Cemetery: Church St W, Burgessville. Established in 1837. First burial was 1846.
  • Erbtown Cemetery (Free Methodist Cemetery): 225424 Main St W, Otterville. Erb family donated the land prior to 1861 for the Episcopal Methodist Church and Cemetery.
  • Milldale Burial Grounds: 772754 Oxford Road 59. The earliest burial was 1873.
  • New Durham Cemetery: 389105 New Durham Rd. Earliest burial was in 1847. There is a monument as a memorial to war army victims 1919.
  • New Road United Cemetery: 164777 New Road. The earliest burial was 1861.
  • Newark Community Cemetery: at 593189 Oxford Road 13. The first burial was 1823 and the last in 1950. In 1963 the gravestones and monuments were covered over and a memorial stone was erected beside the Newark Church.
  • North Norwich Pioneer Cemetery (Tompkin's Burying Ground): at 345705 Quaker St. Earliest burial was 1816. Plaque to commemorate The Norwich Quaker Settlement.
  • Norwich Gore Cemetery: 813303 Base Line. Earliest burial was 1818.
  • Norwich Village Cemetery: Avery's Lane, Norwich. The village's cemetery was located behind the home of Mr. Hilliker, whose son was the first death of the village in 1824.
  • Oriel Sideroad (West Cemetery): 734159 Oriel Line. Registered in the 1860s to the Congregational Methodist Church.
  • Otterville Cemetery: in 732634 Pick Lane. The Otter Cemetery Company was formed in 1892 and it purchased land adjoining St. John's Cemetery, on a high point overlooking Otterville.
  • Oxford Centre Pioneer Cemetery: 505395 Old Stage Road, Oxford Centre. Memorial plaque in the circle driveway which is dedicated to "Our Heroes", those who were killed in World War I and II.
  • Oxford Centre United Cemetery: 714581 Middletown Rd. Earliest burial was 1862.
  • Pleasant View Cemetery (Curries Cemetery): 465007 Curries Road. Earliest burial was 1848. Originally, the cemetery was called Zion, but in 1899 it was changed to Pleasant View.
  • Quaker Street Friends Cemetery: 345645 Quaker Street. Also known as "The Old Brick Cemetery"
  • Rosanna Cemetery: 145199 Potters Road. Earliest burial was 1889.
  • Springford Cemetery: 225227 Springford Road. Stone markers date back to 1826. The first cemetery in the township, it was taken over by the community in 1887.
  • St. John's Anglican Cemetery: 235 Church St., Otterville. Land was deeded in 1850.
  • St. John's Anglican, Eastwood: 685860 Oxford Road 2. First burial was 1856.
  • Waggoner Cemetery (Zenda): 1826-1883. Many of those buried here are members of the Waggoner family.

Historical churches
Norwich United Church front
  • Burgessville Baptist Church: Church St W, Burgessville. Built in the 1870s.
  • Burgesville United Church: Church St, Burgessville. Methodist Church until 1925. Built in 1899.
  • Eastwood United Church: 565739 Towerline Rd. Established in 1866 as a Methodist church and joined the United Church in 1925. Built in 1880.
  • Independent Reformed Congregation: 405 Main Street East. Built in 1894 as a Methodist church in 1858 and joined the United Church in 1925.
  • Knox Presbyterian Church: 67 Main St. W, Norwich. Services began in 1848 and a church was built in 1851 on John St. The present church was built in 1879.
  • Maple Dell Amish Church: 265005 Maple Dell Road. Built in 1879 as USS#14 and #4, Maple Dell School. An Amish School is also located on the site of this church.
  • Muir United Church: 814575 Muir Line. Built in 1862 and rebuilt in 1910. Closed on June 26, 1988 and is now a private residence.
  • Newark United Church: 593199 Oxford Road 13. Established as an Episcopal Methodist congregation in 1867. The current church building was erected in 1955.
  • Norwich Gore United Church: 813186 Base Line. Constructed in 1861.
  • Norwich United Church: 80 Main St. W, Norwich. Built in 1885.
  • Norwich Village Regular BaptistChurch : 5 Elgin St, Norwich. Built in 1877.
  • Otterville Baptist Church: 106 John St. N, Otterville. Built in 1904.
  • Otterville United Church: 231 Main St. E, Otterville. Built in 1884.
  • Oxford Centre United Church: 714581 Line. Built in 1860.
  • Reformed Congregation in North America: 284799 Pleasant Valley Road. Formerly St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church. A log church was built in the 1840s and the present brick church was erected in 1894.
  • Springford Baptist Church: 422 Main St. W, Springford. Built in 1887.
  • St. John's Anglican Church: 23 Dover Street, Otterville. Built in 1908.
  • St. John's Anglican Church, Eastwood: 685860 Oxford Road 2. Land was donated by Admiral Henry Vansittart in 1836.

Historical schools
  • East Oxford P.S.: 505767 Old Stage Rad. A plaque commemorates Old Stage Road. Governor Simcoe inherited this Indian trail known as the Detroit Path. Both American and British troops used it during the War of 1812 travelling between Detroit and Ancaster. Sections of the trail can still be travelled in East and West Oxford.
  • Norwich District High School : Stover St. S (Oxford Road 59), Norwich. Built in 1952. Norwich Cenotaph: "Weeping Lady." This monument typifies the Quaker response of pacifism and the futility of war.
  • Norwich P.S. : 12 Washington St, Norwich. Originally built in 1896 but replaced in 1973.
  • Otterville P.S. : 318 Main St W, Otterville. The facade is all that remains of the original 1927 building. However, there is a plaque with the old school bell at the front of the school.

Plaques and monuments
  • Bell with historic plaque: At the Otterville firehall.
  • Establishment of Free Rural Mail Delivery: At the Springfield Community Centre.

Cultural resources
The Norwich and District Museum
  • Norwich and District Historical Society Museum & Archives: 89 Stover St N, RR#3, Norwich, ON N0J 1P0
  • Burgessville Public Library: 604 Main St S, Burgessville, ON N0J 1C0
  • Norwich Public Library: 10 Tidey St, Norwich, ON N0J 1P0
  • Otterville Public Library: 218 Main St W, Norwich, ON N0J 1R0
  • Ross Butler Studio and Agricultural Gallery
  • South Norwich Historical Society Museum (GTR)
  • Thames Valley Museum School
  • Woodlawn Community Centre

Notable residents
  • Ross Butler (1907-1995) Farmer, photographer, songwriter, livestock judge, cattle and poultry breeder, pioneer of cattle artificial insemination, painter and sculptor of farm animals, as well as an author (the autobiographical, My Father's Farm). Commissioned in 1939 to paint over 500 "Standard Type" paintings of Canadian livestock to be placed in schools across Canada. See link for other notable accomplishments.
  • Cassie L. Chadwick (1857-1907), born Elizabeth Bigley in the Norwich Township community of Eastwood, moved to Cleveland, Ohio, became Madam and infamous fraudster
  • Ronald C. Davidson (1941-2016), physicist and first director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
  • Harold Innis, (1894-1952), political economist, born and raised in the Norwich Township community of Bookton
  • William Melville Martin (1876-1970) Second Premier of Saskatchewan
  • Hulda Minthorn (1848-1884), mother of Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States; moved to Iowa with her family at the age of 11
  • James Beech Moore (1842-1931), longest serving minister in the Canadian Baptist movement, at the time of his death the oldest Canadian veteran of the American Civil War
  • Eddie Oatman (1889-1973) Ten-time PCHA All-Star, and member of the Quebec Bulldogs of the NHA. Won the Stanley Cup with the Bulldogs in 1912, and played professional hockey for 32 full seasons.
  • Rev. Dr. James Robertson (1839-1902), Presbyterian, ordained to Knox Presbyterian, Norwich; later first Superintendent of Missions, North West Territories
  • Margaret Allen Rockefeller , wife of William Avery Rockefeller (father of the American oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller
  • Emily Stowe, (1831-1903), first woman doctor to practice medicine in Canada, and Augusta Stowe-Gullen, her daughter, first woman to earn a medical degree in Canada

Media

Norwich's local newspaper, the Norwich Gazette, was shuttered by publisher Sun Media in July, 2018.

See also

References
  1. "Township of Norwich 2018 Municipal Election Official Results". Township of Norwich. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  2. Statistics Canada. 2016. Norwich, Ontario (Code 3532002) census profile. 2016 Census.
  3. Proclamation of July 16, 1792
  4. An act for the better division of this province, S.U.C. 1798, c. 5, s. 37
  5. "Oxford Centre's place in Ontario's Bostwick region" in Norwich District Historical Society Newsletter, published in three parts in 2012
  6. The Marlow Historical Society has published many details of the Canfield family story there.
  7. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113423204/esther-canfield
  8. funded by the Shaftesbury Association http://baptisthistoryhomepage.com/shaftsbury.cl.index.html
  9. Stuart Ivison and Fred Rosser, The Baptists in Upper and Lower Canada before 1820 (University of Toronto Press, 1956), chapter 3
  10. Hamilton, William (1978). The Macmillan Book of Canadian Place Names. Toronto: Macmillan. pp. 162. ISBN 0-7715-9754-1.
  11. Gourlay's two-volume Statistical account of Upper Canada, compiled with a view to a grand system of emigration was published in England in 1822, the culmination of five years of agitation following the hopeless conditions he found in Dereham township when he came from Scotland to view 1,000 acres his wife had been bequeathed by her uncle, Niagara merchant Robert Hamilton
  12. Ron Shaw, Cheese Stakes (2017)
  13. Kuhn, Robert J. The Norwich and Elmvale Tornadoes June 2nd, 1998 Storm Canwarn, Ontario region, May 27, 1999
  14. "2016 Community Profiles". 2016 Canadian Census. Statistics Canada. February 21, 2017. Retrieved 2017-10-12.
  15. "2011 Community Profiles". 2011 Canadian Census. Statistics Canada. July 5, 2013. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
  16. "2006 Community Profiles". 2006 Canadian Census. Statistics Canada. March 30, 2011. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
  17. "2001 Community Profiles". 2001 Canadian Census. Statistics Canada. February 17, 2012.
  18. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2016 census
  19. "Township of Norwich 2018 Municipal Election" (PDF). Town of Norwich, Ontario. October 23, 2018. Retrieved December 11, 2018.
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