The Founding of Renfrew

Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted July, 2005

Plaque Location

The County of Renfrew
The Town of Renfrew
On the north side of Railway Avenue between
Raglan Street South (Highway 60) and Plaunt Street South

Coordinates: N 45 28.386 W 76 41.075

Plaque Text

Attracted by the development of the lumbering industry in the Upper Ottawa valley, a few settlers had located in this region by 1830. Six years later Xavier Plaunt acquired land here, near the second chute of the Bonnechere River and by 1848 was selling village lots and had provided land for the community's first church. In that year a post office, Renfrew, was opened and in 1851 the settlement contained a sawmill, grist-mill, tannery and foundry. The movement into Renfrew of settlers from neighbouring townships, and the opening in 1854 of the Opeongo Road from Farrell's Landing on the Ottawa River, stimulated the community's growth, and four years later it was incorporated as a Village. In 1895 it became a Town.

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