Ponsonby, Ontario

Ponsonby, Ontario

Ponsonby is a ghost town in Ontario, Canada. It was situated along the Garafraxa Settlement Road (which led from Hamilton to Owen Sound via Guelph) to an area known as the "Queens Bush". This settlement road was another government plan to bring settlers to the area with an offer of 50 acres (202,000 m²). The name Garafraxa is said to be a corruption of the word Sassafrax, a shrub that grew in the district. Others believed it was from an Indian word meaning 'panther country'.

Charles Rankin surveyed the Garafraxa Road about 1840, however the road did not become well populated until the 1850s. Ponsonby was another of many small towns in which travellers could stop and rest for the night. The original name of the town was Thorpville, however it was changed in 1863 when James Halley took over the post office.


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