King Township Quiz
Which band released a song called Township of King?
Barenaked Ladies released Township of King in 2017, written by Kevin Hearn. The lyrics mention Canada's Wonderland, which is actually in Vaughan.
Source: Wikipedia, King, Ontario
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Fun facts about King Township
24 facts and quiz questions about King Township, Ontario. Each one links to its source. A new fact of the day goes live every morning.
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King Township History
Who guided the first European through King Township?
Twelve Wendat guides led French explorer Étienne Brûlé along the Toronto Carrying-Place Trail through the area in 1615.
Source: Wikipedia, King, Ontario
King Township Quiz
What was King City called before 1890?
The settlement founded in 1836 was called Springhill. In 1890 the reeve merged Springhill, Kinghorn, Laskay and Eversley into King City.
Source: Wikipedia, King City, Ontario
King Township History
What was the eight-sided Dead House at King City Cemetery for?
Built around 1887, it held the dead through winter, when frozen ground made it impossible to dig graves. Eight-sided dead houses were unique to the area along Yonge Street north of Toronto.
Source: Wikipedia, King, Ontario
King Township History
What did people harvest in the Holland Marsh before it was drained?
In the 1880s people cut marsh reeds to stuff mattresses, ferrying horses across on scows. Professor William Day then led the draining, and the southern polder was finished in 1930.
Source: Wikipedia, Holland Marsh
King Township Nature
What flooded the whole Holland Marsh in six hours?
In October 1954 Hurricane Hazel's heavy rains overwhelmed the drainage system and breached the dykes. Within six hours the entire polder was under water.
Source: Wikipedia, Holland Marsh
King Township Quiz
Which part of King is called Ontario's vegetable basket?
The Holland Marsh, which King shares with Bradford West Gwillimbury, grows onions, carrots, celery and leafy greens in rich, dark organic soil.
King Township Nature
Where does the East Humber River begin?
Creeks from King City and as far away as Bolton and Stouffville, on the slopes of the Oak Ridges Moraine, join to form the East Humber River.
Source: Wikipedia, King City, Ontario
King Township Quiz
True or false: King has the highest share of Italian Canadians of any place in Canada.
In the 2021 Census, Italian Canadians made up 35.1 percent of King's people, the largest concentration of any census subdivision in Canada.
Source: Wikipedia, King, Ontario
King Township Nature
What covered King Township 15,000 years ago?
A glacial lake called Lake Schomberg covered the Lake Simcoe lowlands, reaching south to near Nobleton. Its surface may have been 120 metres higher than Lake Simcoe is today.
Source: Wikipedia, King, Ontario
King Township History
Who built the Laskay Temperance Hall?
The Sons of Temperance built the hall in 1859. The Laskay Women's Institute ran it from 1910, and it is now a township heritage site.
Source: Wikipedia, King, Ontario
King Township Culture
Where did the Marylake pipe organ come from?
It was built from two 1928 organs that came from the Eaton and Seagram estates in 1960. Joined together, they have more than 3,000 pipes.
King Township Quiz
Who first owned the land at Marylake?
Marylake was the farm and summer home of Sir Henry Pellatt and was named for his first wife, Mary. The Augustinians have owned it since 1935.
King Township Culture
What record does the rosary path at Marylake hold?
Work on the largest rosary path in North America began at Marylake in 2014, and it was blessed and opened in August 2016. The nearly 1,000-acre property is in King City.
King Township Quiz
Who is King Township named after?
Simcoe named the township for John King, a British Under-Secretary of State for the Home Office from 1794 to 1801, not for a monarch.
Source: Wikipedia, King, Ontario
King Township History
Where is Nobleton's old blacksmith shop now?
The board-and-batten blacksmith shop built in Nobleton in the 1850s was moved to Black Creek Pioneer Village in Toronto.
Source: Wikipedia, Nobleton, Ontario
King Township History
Who is Nobleton named after?
Nobleton is named after Joseph Noble, an early settler and tavern keeper. It was settled in 1812, halfway between King City and Bolton.
Source: Wikipedia, Nobleton, Ontario
King Township Quiz
Where is the oldest surviving railway station in Canada believed to be?
King Station was built in 1852 on the Northern Railway to serve Springhill, now King City. It was moved to the King Township Museum grounds in 1989.
Source: Wikipedia, King, Ontario
King Township Quiz
How many people lived in King Township in the 2021 Census?
King counted 27,333 people in the 2021 Census, up 11.5 percent from 2016, spread over 332 square kilometres.
Sources: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census Profile, King, Wikipedia, King, Ontario
King Township Quiz
When was the first Schomberg Fair?
The Schomberg Fair began in 1852. The agricultural fair is still held every year on the last weekend in May.
Source: Wikipedia, Schomberg, Ontario
King Township History
What did the flood of June 6, 1890, carry away in Schomberg?
The storm swept away two mill dams and carried one building downstream, where it came to rest on a farm.
Source: Wikipedia, Schomberg, Ontario
King Township History
Why was Brownsville renamed Schomberg?
In 1861 the post office turned down Brownsville because another Brownsville already existed. In 1862 the village became Schomberg, likely after a Duke of Schomberg who was a general for King William III.
Source: Wikipedia, Schomberg, Ontario
King Township Places
Where do most people in rural King Township live?
King is known for horse and cattle farms, but most of its people live in three communities: King City, Nobleton and Schomberg.
Source: Wikipedia, King, Ontario
King Township History
Where is King Township's first settlement today?
King's first settlement, Armitage, was named after first settler Amos Armitage. Boundary changes put it inside Newmarket.
Source: Wikipedia, King, Ontario