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| ISBN: | 9781554882427
1554882427
9781459713451
1459713451
1550022229
9781550022223
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (page 101) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | In the early 1800s, Timothy Robers, a Quaker millwright from Vermont, drew a flourishing community of fellow Quakers to the area which became the new-market for settles and traders. It soon became the commercial hub of a rich farming area. By the mid-1800s it was a central point on the Ontario, Simcoe, and Huron Railway. Over the following decades, gas deposits were cofirmed there and a barge canalw as built along with a street railway. In the early 20th century Newmarket languished through a long period of slow growth -- wars and the Depression took a terrible toll on the small town. Yet i.
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| Other form: | Print version: Carter, Robert Terence. Newmarket. Toronto, Canada ; Niagara Falls, N.Y., U.S.A. : Dundurn Press ; New Market, Ont. : Elm Tree House Publishers, ©1994 1550022229 9781550022223
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