Harriston

Harriston is a community within the Town of Minto in Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. In 1999, Harriston changed into amalgamated with the groups of Palmerston, Clifford, and Minto Township to shape the Town of Minto. Harriston is located at the headwaters of the Maitland River, and has severa shops, consuming places, a library, an art work gallery and cultural centre.In the summer season of 1845, the primary non-Aboriginal settlers arrived inside the area.

The Crown did no longer make land to be had on the market in the area till 1854. The metropolis have become named after Archibald Harrison, a Toronto farmer who modified into granted land alongside the Maitland River in Minto Township, on the Elora and Saugeen Road in 1854. Harrison's brother George Harrison constructed the primary sawmill in 1854, and in 1856 his brother Joshua Harrison built the primary gristmill, and additionally had the primary shop inside the city of Harriston.

The Harrisons had first rate wealth after they moved to the community from York County, and have come to be major men in the pioneer agreement. The population have become high-quality one hundred fifty but there were companies inclusive of a blacksmith and wagon maker while a put up workplace was mounted in 1856. A Carnegie Library opened in Harriston in 1908, designed via architect William Edward Binning.