Beaverton

Beaverton is a community in Brock Township in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada. Beaverton was first settled in 1822. The settlement is situated on Lake Simcoe at the mouth of the Beaver River. It was called Calder's Mills Mill Town and Milton until the point when it was renamed Beaverton when the mail station was opened in 1835. By 1869, Beaverton was a town with a populace of 700 in the Township of Thorah Township in Ontario County.

It was the end of the Port Hope, Lindsay and Beaverton Railway. The steamer Emily May utilized day by day among Beaverton and Bell Ewart station of the Northern Railroad. There were arranges every day to Whitby and Oshawa. In 1884, Beaverton isolated from the Township and was consolidated as a Village. As a major aspect of the formation of Durham Region in 1974, Beaverton was amalgamated with Thorah Township, the first Brock Township and the Villages of Cannington and Sunderland to make the recently extended Township of Brock.

Today, Beaverton is the biggest network in Brock. There are three grade schools in Beaverton and region, and also a field, twisting club, open library, little harbor and yacht club. The neighborhood economy depends on the arrangement of administrations to the encompassing territory, enhanced by some assembling. Tourism likewise assumes a job; the Trent-Severn Waterway associates with Lake Simcoe a couple of kilometers north of Beaverton and the territory draws in cottagers from different areas of the Province.