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 Georgetown's Gellert Community Centre got its name after Jobst and Waltraud Gellert - founders of Mold-Master's Ltd. - one of the biggest companies in our community. The husband and wife couple imigrated from Germany and were the first company to manufacture hot runners, patenting 825 inventions worldwide.
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 Halton Hills has some interesting museums depicting rural life as it used to be. We are also lucky that the woman who gave us Anne of Green Gables lived here for some time.
The following article offers a short description of museums in the Georgetown area that are worth a visit. Enjoy!
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 Dominion Gardens park, on the corner of Highway 7 and Maple Avenue in Georgetown, was once a successful seed house and the largest catalogue seed distributor in Canada.
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 First we kicked out the natives… It all started in 1650 when French missionaries came to this area and wiped out the once plentiful Hurons. Ok, to be fair, it wasn’t just the missionaries, Iroquois and European diseases played a role too. |
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 Why they call it Delrex?
Georgetown started with 700 settlers in 1845 and when it was finally incorporated as a village in 1864, there were about 1,400 people. The community grew steadily, becoming a town in 1922 and by the end of World War II it’s population had grown to almost 4,000.
The town started to grow rapidly after the arrival of Rex Heslop who transformed the farms on the eastern edge of town...
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