A BRIEF HISTORY OF DRUMMONDVILLE
Drummondville was the first of the Stamford Township communities to incorporate, in 1831. The cluster of houses and businesses located around the Portage Road, Ferry Road and Lundy’s Lane intersection took its name in honour of the British commander, Gordon Drummond, who led during The Battle of Lundy's Lane seventeen years before. Present-day boundaries of the village were North Street, Stanley Avenue, Dixon Street and Drummond Road and the population was about 150 persons.
In 1844, William Russell built his brewery in Drummondville, the community’s largest industry until it was destroyed in a spectacular fire in 1886. By 1850, Drummondville had a population of five hundred. It boasted a brewery, a hotel, a tannery, eight taverns and five churches: Church of England, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian and British Methodist Episcopalian.
For more on this story, click the link below:
History of Drummondville
|