Dryden

Dryden is the second-biggest city in the Kenora District of Northwestern Ontario, Canada, situated on Wabigoon Lake. It is the littlest network in the area of Ontario assigned as a city. It, and Kenora are the main urban communities in Ontario situated in the Central Time Zone. Dryden is altogether encompassed by Unorganized Kenora District. The settlement was established as a rural network by John Dryden, Ontario's Minister of Agriculture in 1895. While his prepare was halted at what was then known as Barclay Tank to re-water, he saw clover developing and chose to establish a test cultivate the next year.

The ranch's prosperity brought pioneers from the Uxbridge region of southern Ontario and the Bruce Peninsula and the network came to be known as New Prospect. It turned into a town in 1910 and a city in 1998 in the wake of converging with the neighboring township of Barclay. Dryden's eastern limit is situated close Aaron Provincial Park on Thunder Lake. Mash and Paper went to the town in 1910. Today, its primary enterprises are farming, tourism and mining. Paper/mash businesses in Dryden were a noteworthy donor in its nearby economy. In 2008 the factory stopped generation of fine paper as the second of two paper machines was closed down.