Wellesley

The Township of Wellesley is the provincial, north-western township of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. It includes 277.79 km2 and had a populace of 11,260 in the Canada 2016 Census. By 1805, numerous Mennonites from Pennsylvania had settled adjacent in Berlin however Wellesley Township itself was not studied until 1842, and the zone around Crosshill was settled in 1846 by M. Hastings and Hugh Hutchinson.

In 1837, John Philip Schweitzer from Germany hunched down at what is currently Hawkesville, and had 40 sections of land 160,000 m2 of land cleared over the accompanying nine years. At that point, John Hawke got government authorization to purchase the clearing for $700.00 depending on the prerequisite that he manufacture a grist process for flour and a sawmill inside two years. John Hawke, the second child of Benjamin Hawke and Mary Lount, had arrived.

The town of St. Clements was settled in 1840, by Michael Spiehlmacker. A mail station opened in 1853. By 1864, there was a vast Roman Catholic church, two stores, three inns and some tradesmen, in spite of the fact that the populace was just around 100. By 1869, the populace had expanded to 200 and the mail station was getting mail day by day. Records from 1846 about the whole Township demonstrate that a great part of the land had been "Ruler's Rush, crown arrive, where fifty section of land parcels were offered away to genuine pioneers".