Prescott

Prescott, Ontario is a baby town about the north shore about the Saint Lawrence River within the United Counties regarding Leeds then Grenville, Canada. In 2016, the town had a population on 3965. The Ogdensburg-Prescott International Bridge, 5 kilometres 3.1 mi east on Prescott at Johnstown, connects the city with Ogdensburg, New York. The city is respecting an bell from both Ottawa or Kingston.

The city was fabricated in the shortly nineteenth century via Edward Jessup, a Loyalist troop for the duration of the United States of America Revolution, who named the hamlet afterwards a past Governor-in-Chief, Robert Prescott. Prior after 1834, the city used to be a share on Augusta township, alternatively into so 12 months the city grew to be a police village, and severed its ties together with Augusta.

The region here was once perfect because of contract for the duration of the 18th yet nineteenth centuries as it used to be situated among Montreal or Kingston along the St. Lawrence River at the tip on the rapids. In the mid-to-late 1600s, the French occupied the place enclosure where used to be in accordance with emerge as Prescott, Ontario. The advance regarded location on a French settlement was once a buying and selling put up within 1673 positioned front concerning Prescott in as is at last Johnstown.