A Short History of Rockland, Ontario

a beautful place to live have been here for 3 year and love it

🌹What a great vid and interesting facts. I was quite sad though to find out children worked in the factories, the times were sure tough. 👏🏻Thanks for sharing.

I explored an old abandoned home in Rockland just 2mths ago 😎🤟

Well done, this is a very informative video of Rockland Ontario and the surrounding area ! 😎

Rockland east side represent. Dalrymple park!

Very cool

Très intéressant, bien présenté, Bravo et Merci ! J'ai reconnu mon arrière grand père, Adrien Savage sur la photo des : " Ouvriers travaillant à la construction du chemin de fer ( voir à 5:43 sous le thème, The Railroad... ) Notes : Première rangée de gauche à droite : W. Ronchon, Aly Nynnie, Tim Presley, Billy Mentroy, Burney Johnson, Davery Dufresne, Alex Druo, Adrien Savage. 2e rangée: Bill Purrie (contremaître), Jos St-Louis, Isaac Presley, Adolphe Mondou, Serge Pigeon. Date de publication : Sep 1906 "

I've heard about an underground tunnel that was recently found, that has remnants of train tracks in it. I asked my FiL about it, and he recalls riding it. It was a diesel engine train, underground, that connected Rockland to Ottawa. I believe if the tunnel were updated, it could host traffic flowing westbound and the surface road could host traffic eastbound; thus solving the widening of the 174 issue completely.

Population in the 2000s didnt grow rapidly because of Ottowa. No its because of Potvin Construction, a major building company that started building tons of houses and businesses. In the 1990s Rockland was already at 10 thousands population. But then in the early 2000s Maurice village was built along with a bunch of new stores and the Escale highschool and Saint-Trinitée elementary school were expended. A new arena was built, a hotel was built and a ton of other things. All of this is because of the Potvin company being based in Rockland. In fact the Hotel was built as a present for the daughter of Potvin: The River Rock Inn. The area that is Eastern Ontario that Rockland is in has a lot more towns then those you mentioned: The oldest are probably Vankleek Hill and Cornwall. But there is also Embrun,, Plantagenet and Alfred. The cheese curds that we use in poutine was invented in Eastern Ontario in Saint-Albert.

Clarence-Rocklands population is now 25 thousands