Norval On The Credit - Norval, Ontario, Canada
N 43° 38.840 W 079° 51.436
17T E 592158 N 4833338
This sign is located in McNab Park in Norval, Ontario.
Waymark Code: WM8QVH
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 05/04/2010
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NORVAL ON THE CREDIT
MISSISSAUGA INDIANS ONCE LIVED ON THESE LANDS, WHICH THEY CEDED TO THE CROWN IN 1818. BY 1827 A VILLAGE HAD DEVELOPED AROUND JAMES McNAB'S GRIST AND FLOUR MILLS ON THE CREDIT RIVER, WHICH BECAME NORVAL IN 1936 WITH THE ADVENT OF A POST OFFICE. WHEN THE GUELPH PLANK ROAD PAST THROUGH IN 1851, NORVAL WAS THE PREDOMINANT HAMLET IN ESQUESING TOWNSHIP, UNTIL IT WAS BYPASSED BY THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY (1856). A LARGE FLOUR MILL WAS THE MAJOR INDUSTRY UNTIL ITS DESTRUCTION BY FIRE IN 1930.
From: Wikipedia
James McNab
James McNab was the first settler in Norval, Ontario.
McNab was a Lieutenant at the Battle of Queenston Heights during the War of 1812.
McNab was an United Empire Loyalist. He arrived from Vermont in 1820 with his wife and children. He set up a grist mill and saw mill on the Credit River.
In 1991, a historic plaque was unveiled in McNab Park in Norval, Ontario in his honour.