The Founding of Forest

Photo by Alan L Brown - September, 2004

Plaque Location

In the Municipality of Lambton Shores in the County of Lambton
at coordinates N 43 05.760 W 82 00.185
at the library.

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Plaque Text

In 1858 Timothy Resseguie laid out the first village lots and the opening of a railway station here in 1859 on the recently completed Grand Trunk line from Guelph to Sarnia provided the nucleus around which this community grew. A general store was opened and it was followed by other commercial enterprises. An Anglican church was established in 1861 and the following year a post office was opened. Grist-mills and sawmills were constructed and the community flourished as a trans-shipment centre. With a population of over 750, Forest, in 1872, was incorporated as a village in accordance with a Lambton County by-law, and in 1889 it became a town.

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