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Proudfoot’s Hollow Tour
In-person
History & heritage Tour Nature & outdoorsDate and time
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Location
Knox Presbyterian Church Sixteen
1150 Dundas Street West
Oakville, ON
Directions: *Parking is limited on-site. Please consider taking public transit.
Access
Free.
Offered in English.
About
In 1826, George Chalmers, a Scottish immigrant and merchant, began buying up land along The Sixteen where it crossed Dundas Street. On his newly acquired land, Chalmers built a gristmill, a sawmill a store and an ashery, which, became the centre of the Sixteen Village or Proudfoot’s Hollow as it was known to the Scottish immigrants who settled there and in the surrounding area.
The village no longer exists! Using historic maps and information gleaned through an archaeological excavation conducted by the Halton Regional Museum in 1989, Town of Oakville Heritage Planning staff will guide participants through a settler’s view of the area and discuss why the village was important as well as why it ceased to exist.
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Organizer
Town of Oakville, Halton Heritage Services, Conservation Halton, Knox Presbyterian Church Sixteen.
The group organizing the event is made up of a variety of groups including: The Town of Oakville, Oakville Museum, Halton Heritage Services, Conservation Halton, Knox Presbyterian Church Sixteen and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.
This event is part of a hub:
The Crossing: Community Heritage Day
Halton Heritage Services, Knox Sixteen, Town of Oakville, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Oakville, ONDiscover the history of the place known today as Lions Valley Park! Since the first Indigenous people lived on this land, the place know today as Lions Valley Park has been an important location because it was where the river could be cros...