Alexander I, however, stood his ground and announced that "military settlements will be created, even if we have to pave the road from Saint Petersburg to Chudov today’s Chudovo; some 100 km away from Petersburg with dead bodies".
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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.
A small military settlement called Fort Dumaresq was established near the present-day site of Rhyll on the north coast of Phillip Island.