The community owes its existence to its location on the Richmond Road midway between Richmond Landing near Bytown (now Ottawa) and the military settlement at Richmond, at the junction with the concession road leading west to the Hazeldean neighbourhood in neighbouring Goulbourn Township.
:The white pine is the historical basis of the economic power of the Ottawa Valley, while the small badge on the tree refers to Bytown, the town that later became the city of Ottawa.
He emigrated to Upper Canada with his family in 1836 settling in Bytown (later known as Ottawa).
The Britannia Yacht Club has used the tug, rigged as a pirate ship known as STV Black Jack since 1983 to train young people to sail through the Bytown Brigantine Inc.
He was born in Kilfinane, the son of Samuel Marks, and came with his family to Bytown in Upper Canada in the 1840s.