Eden Mills, Ontario
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Eden Mills | |
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Unincorporated community | |
 York Street in Eden Mills | |
  Eden Mills  Eden Mills | |
| Coordinates: 43°34′43″N 80°08′36″W / 43.57861°N 80.14333°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Ontario |
| County | Wellington |
| Township | Guelph/Eramosa |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| GNBC Code | FBBQT[1] |
Eden Mills is an unincorporated community in the Township of Guelph/Eramosa, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada.[1][2]
Located on the Eramosa River, the Eden Mills Writers' Festival is an annual event.
The settlement was founded in 1842 by the Kribbs family, who built a mill on the Eramosa River.[3][4] First called "Kribbs Mill", it was renamed "Eden Mills" in 1846, when the new mill owner described the location as "beautiful as the Garden of Eden".[4][5] The early settlement had a post office, blacksmith, hotel, general store, taxidermist, oatmeal mill, several saw mills, and a community hall, erected around 1893.[3][5]
The population in 1902 was 300.[6]
The Toronto Suburban Railway was built to Guelph in 1917, with a stop in Eden Mills.[4][7] The railway enabled local farmers to ship produce to Toronto, and Eden Mills became a recreational destination for train travellers.[7] Around 1924, Edgewood Park was built near the railway station to attract visitors, and featured a baseball diamond, picnic area, cottages, a dance hall, and in 1928, a swimming pool.[7] The park was purchased in 1944 by the Lutheran Church of the Canada as a summer youth camp, and in 2017, the camp ceased operation and was sold to the Eden Mills River Conservation Authority.[7]
In 1930, the railway ceased operations, and Eden Mills became a police village (a form of municipal government previously used in Ontario).[4]
Eden Mills Writers' Festival is an annual event founded in 1989.[8]
Demographics
In the 1991 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Eden Mills had an estimated population of 319.[9]
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| Source: Statistics Canada[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][9] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
