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unusual facts about Dufferin—Caledon



Aghaloo O'Neills GAC

The club is based in Aughnacloy and Caledon which encompasses the parish after which the club is named, Aghaloo, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava

Lord Dufferin was serving as a staff officer in Mandalay, Burma when he was killed in an ambush during a covert mission on 25 March 1945, just a few weeks short of his 36th birthday.

Caledon Folk Festival

The Festival was founded in February 1996 by Norm Hacking, Christian Tobin and Michael Tobin as a way to generate a more positive cultural atmosphere in the Caledon area.

Caledon State Park

The property was initially owned by the Alexander brothers, founders of the city of Alexandria, and was established in 1659 as Caledon Plantation.

Caledon, County Tyrone

The townland contains one Scheduled Historic Monument: a Beam engine (grid ref: H7581 4521).

Caledon, Western Cape

The writer Peter Dreyer was born in Caledon at the Caledon Baths Hotel in 1939.

A bath house was built in 1797 and a village called Swartberg sprang up, which was later renamed Caledon in honor of the Irish peer Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon (1777–1839), the first British governor of the Cape (1806-11).

Canadian International Air Show

Performers fly in from Pearson, as well the island airport on nearby Toronto Islands, and so fly over the downtown area, with staging and holding primarily from Dufferin across to Jarvis and up to Bloor.

Cardinal Leger Secondary School

The school enrolls about 1600 students and is the only school in the Dufferin-Peel board to have the Cisco Systems Program available to students.

CHSV-FM

On January 20, 2012, Evanov announced that Dufferin applied with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to establish a new Soft AC station in Hudson; the new station would broadcast at 106.7 MHz at 500 watts at 94 metres HAAT.

David Tilson

Tilson ran for the Canadian House of Commons in the federal election of 2004 and defeated incumbent Liberal Murray Calder by a margin of 43% to 39% in the new riding of Dufferin—Caledon.

Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon

He was the first governor on the Cape's cession to United Kingdom; the Caledon River and the district Caledon, Western Cape there are named after him.

Earl of Caledon

Another member of the Alexander family was Field Marshal Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, who was the third son of the 4th Earl of Caledon.

Etienne Brule Park

Many of the dams from the Old Mill to Palgrave in the Town of Caledon have already been modified to enhance fish migration and the access to 70 km of fish habitat that has been disconnected from Lake Ontario for over 150 years.

Evanov Communications

On January 20, 2012, Evanov announced that Dufferin applied with the CRTC to establish a new Soft AC station in Hudson, Quebec, a western suburb of Montreal; the new station would broadcast at 106.7 MHz at 500 watts at 94 metres HAAT.

Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 3rd Marquess of Dufferin and Ava

Lord Dufferin was the fourth son of Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava.

Grey Egerton baronets

Sir Reginald Arthur Egerton, another son of the aforementioned Major-General Caledon Richard Egerton (d. 1930), was Private Secretary to the Postmaster-General, Surveyor to the General Post Office, London, and Secretary to the General Post Office, Dublin.

Hebbville, Nova Scotia

An auto row is located just outside of Bridgewater town limits on Dufferin St (known as Highway #3 once in Hebbville) and is populated with dealers such as Ford, Volkswagen and Hyundai.

Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye

At seventeen, Helen was engaged to Commander Price Blackwood, youngest of three sons of Hans, Lord Dufferin, and Mehetabel Temple; owing to the deaths of his brothers he was to be the future Lord Dufferin, although his parents wanted him to marry more advantageously, mainly based on financial grounds.

Hurontario Street

Between Caledon and Orangeville, it is part of busy Highway 10, which leaves the Hurontario Street alignment in Orangeville to head for Owen Sound.

John Cabot Catholic Secondary School

In 1997, the Dufferin-Peel trustees named the school in recognition of the 500th anniversary of John Cabot's famous North American landing.

Malviya Bridge

Malviya Bridge, inaugurated in 1887 (originally called The Dufferin Bridge) is a double decker bridge over the Ganges at Varanasi.

Mississauga Secondary School

It is ranked 17 out of 34 secondary schools in the city of Mississauga and is ranked 9 out of 32 secondary schools in the Peel District School Board, which includes schools from Brampton, Caledon and Mississauga.

Nicholas Alexander

Nicholas Alexander, 7th Earl of Caledon (born 1955), son of Denis Alexander, 6th Earl of Caledon

Nicholas Alexander, 7th Earl of Caledon

Nicholas James Alexander, 7th Earl of Caledon (born 6 May 1955) is the son of Denis Alexander, 6th Earl of Caledon and Baroness Anne Louise de Graevenitz (an inheritor through her paternal grandmother to the von Siemens fortune).

Northern Ireland Housing Executive

In June 1968, Dungannon Rural District Council was accused of discriminating against a Catholic family when it allocated a new council house in the Caledon area to a young single Protestant woman with links to a local Unionist politician.

Overberg branch line

Two extensions of the line from Caledon were possible: eastwards towards Riviersonderend and Swellendam, with the ultimate possibility of reaching Mossel Bay; or southwards towards Napier and Caledon.

From Botrivier it runs across the Overberg plain through Caledon to a junction at Klipdale.

The Overberg branch line is a railway line in the Western Cape, South Africa, that runs from Cape Town through Somerset West and Caledon to Bredasdorp.

Palgrave, Ontario

Palgrave is home to the Caledon Equestrian Park, which will play host to the equestrian portion of the 2015 Pan American Games.

Paranomus

The species occur mainly in mountainous areas of the Western and Eastern Cape provinces from the Cederberg to Uitenhage, with the highest numbers found in the districts of Caledon, Worcester and Swellendam.

Peaks and Valleys

He first stood at Pin Oak's stud farm in Kentucky before being sent to Gardiner Farms in Caledon, Ontario.

Richard Rive

Rive was born on 1 March 1931 in Caledon Street in the working-class coloured District Six of Cape Town.

Second Battle of Heligoland Bight

It was during this battle that Able Seaman John Henry Carless of HMS Caledon won a posthumous Victoria Cross for his bravery in manning a gun despite mortal wounds.

Somerset East

Lord Charles Somerset, taking up the ideas promulgated by Cradock and Caledon that there should be a settlement on the Eastern Frontier, initiated a plan for an experimental farm in the area.

South African Class 14C 4-8-2

Some went to the Western Cape where they banked up the Hex River Pass from De Doorns and later worked with Class 19C locomotives across Sir Lowry's Pass to Caledon and Bredasdorp in the Overberg.

South African Class 19C 4-8-2

From here they worked on branchlines such as those from Cape Town to Saldanha, along the long branchline via Klawer to Bitterfontein, and across Sir Lowry's Pass to Caledon and Protem in the Overberg.

St. Clair Avenue

One of the longest lasting celebrations on St. Clair Ave was when Italy won the 1982 FIFA World Cup, which lasted from around 3:30 p.m. until around 2:30 a.m. It was estimated about half a million Italians celebrated, which involved Dufferin street to be closed (between Davenport and Rogers Roads).

Sylvia Jones

She was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2007 provincial election, representing the riding of Dufferin—Caledon.

Vincent Massey Collegiate Institute

Later, the building was used as a temporary campus of Dufferin-Peel Separate School Board's Philip Pocock Catholic Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario while the Pocock primary campus was under renovation.

Wilhelm Langschmidt

Wilhelm Heinrich Franz Ludwig Langschmidt, or Willem Langschmidt, (10 January 1805 Grabow, Gustrow - 5 October 1866 Caledon) was a German-born South African painter and drawing master of 59 Long Street, Cape Town.


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