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Brooklin was located primarily in a rural area about two decades ago, but it is now part of the urban Whitby, with high population growth and infrastructure development. Brooklin is surrounded by hills covering the north and the west. The hills and the forests that dominate the north are part of the
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The area around
Brooklin began to be settled in the 1820s. The community itself grew after 1840, when brothers John & Robert Campbell built a flour mill on Lynde Creek. (The present mill building was built in 1848 after a lightning fire destroyed the original.) The village was originally named
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Meadowcrest Public School was for a number of years known as a "volleyball school" as it won 4 Provincial Cup awards as well as being the top school in all of Durham for 10 years. Winchester Public School, however, has beat
Meadowcrest Public School in both Academic and Sporting Events since its
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Brooklin and area has 8 elementary schools, including
Meadowcrest P.S., Winchester P.S., Brooklin Village P.S., Blair Ridge P.S., St. Leo's C.S., St. Bridget C.S., Saint John Paul II C.S., and Chris Hadfield P.S. Five high schools service the community (with four located in Whitby south of the
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Farmlands dominated and some farms have now become residential areas to the south and east; hills and forests are covered with pine and other types of forests especially oaks and birches covers the west, the north and east with some farming. Macedonian
Village is located about 6 km to the
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which resides in the village. A post office, library, fire hall, community centre, and ice arena are provided to the citizens by the municipal government. Many church communities provide for their adherents, including St. Thomas' Anglican, Brooklin United, St. Leo's Roman
Catholic, Burn's
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Presbyterian (actually located in
Ashburn), Renaissance Baptist, Unitarian Universalist Congregation Of Durham, and Brooklin Village Church. A shopping plaza is the southern gateway to an older established downtown business corridor.
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403:(1840–1909), long-serving agriculture minister of the Province of Ontario. While a government minister, Dryden created the northwestern Ontario experimental farm that eventually led to the formation of the town of
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642:"OGSEarth provides geoscience data, collected by the Mines and Minerals division, which can be viewed using user-friendly geographic information programs such as Google Earth"
322:. The population has grown rapidly since the early 1990s with the addition of thousands of homes, predominantly in the subdivisions that surround Brooklin.
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Aside from the farms that surround the town, Brooklin is largely a bedroom community and many residents commute to other parts of the
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Winchester, but renamed when the post office was established to avoid duplication with a village named
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is a popular sport in the area. At one time, Brooklin was known as being the smallest town to have a
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opened on June 20, 2016 and travels just south of
Brooklin along a power line transmission corridor.
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708:"The Tragically Hip: Ahead by a Century (Music Video 1996)"
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647:Ontario Ministry of Northern Development And Mines
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16:Unincorporated community in Ontario, Canada
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514:, southwest
474:Pete Vipond
412:subdivision
401:John Dryden
390:New England
357:Highway 407
316:Lynde Creek
242:905 and 289
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717:2023-04-29
693:2020-05-06
658:2020-05-06
628:References
570:Port Perry
546:Juno award
538:Best Video
378:Winchester
171:Population
86:78°57′35″W
83:43°57′30″N
564:Greenwood
326:Geography
185:Time zone
163:Elevation
779:Category
684:Archived
682:. 2013.
652:Archived
612:Uxbridge
558:Columbus
447:Mann Cup
439:Lacrosse
394:New York
288:Brooklin
275:brooklin
122:Province
64:Brooklin
23:Brooklin
606:Hampton
590:, north
588:Ashburn
584:, south
428:FreshCo
418:Economy
363:History
296:Ontario
277:.whitby
270:Website
155:Settled
127:Ontario
111:Country
608:, east
594:Myrtle
582:Whitby
576:Oshawa
566:, west
472:, and
434:Sports
405:Dryden
292:Whitby
254:030M15
179:25,000
149:Whitby
139:Durham
115:Canada
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