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The Founding of Dunnville


Location
The County of Haldimand
In Dunnville, on the river side of Main Street West north of the bridge across from Church Street


Photographer
Alan L Brown

More Information
Posted
August 23, 2004

Summary from the Ontario Heritage Foundation's website
Construction of a feeder canal from the Grand River to the Welland Canal fostered the development of Dunnville in the late 1820s. For the next 20 years, the community prospered as an important transshipment point.

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