HUNTSVILLE, ONTARIO

'Huntsville' (2001 population: 17,338) is a town in the Muskoka Region of Ontario, Canada.
The area was first settled and founded in 1869 by Captain George Hunt, who built a small agricultural centre there. In 1870, a post office was built and the area was named Huntsville after Hunt, who became the first postmaster. In the following year, the Muskoka Colonization Road reached this area. A water route north from Port Sydney to Huntsville opened in 1877 and a railway route was built by the Northern and Pacific Junction Railway in 1885, which encouraged development and resulted in Huntsville becoming officially incorporated in 1886.
The community became an important industrial area in the late 19th century and had several saw, planing and shingle mills, as well as a tannery. Today, the many lakes and hills in the area and the town's closeness to Algonquin Park, combined with its proximity to Toronto, make Huntsville and the Muskoka region a major tourist destination. Many summer camps for children such as Muskoka Woods and Olympia Sports Camp are within a few kilometers of Huntsville. Resorts such as Deerhurst Resort[1], where Shania Twain was discovered in 1988-1989, and Hidden Valley Resort are located within the town's boundaries. There are also a handful of large manufacturers in Huntsville such as Panolam and Kimberly Clark.

Contents

Transportation

Sports

Demographics

Media

Radio

Television

External links

Transportation

Huntsville is accessible through a variety of roadways, including Highway 60, Highway 11, and Muskoka (Regional) Road 3. Buses to and from Toronto come into the city daily. Passenger train service to the town from Toronto is provided daily by Ontario Northland Railway.
Huntsville has a public transit system consisting of a single bus route.
Huntsville supports a number of Arts Festivals including Huntsville Festival of the Arts. The Huntsville Festival of the Arts recently provided a seed grant which enabled a book of poetry entitled Fringe Festival Poetry, Poems from the Poetry Cafe, edited by June Salmon and Marta Mirecki-de Roode. Other arts activities include the annual Muskoka Novel Marathon, started by Canadian authors Martin Avery and Mel Malton in 2001. The town is especially proud of its new Municipal Centre and performing arts theatre, the Algonquin Theatre.
The theatre provides a beautiful and professional space for local dance, music, and school activities. For profit venues are also scheduled, and most of the labour is provided by local volunteers.

Sports

Hockey and Lacrosse are proud sports in Huntsville. The town is the hometown of sports icons such as Jack Bionda and Ethan Moreau, who currently plays in the NHL for the Edmonton Oilers. The Huntsville arena is named after the great lacrosse and Hockey Legend Jack Bionda. The town has great lacrosse teams in the Huntsville Hawks, as well as two female hockey teams (Huntsville Honeys Senior C and Huntsville Huskies Midget C). The town also has a Junior A team called the Huntsville Muskoka Otters, which has had many talented players move on, including Blake Parlett.
George Selkirk, a major league baseball player was born here in 1908. Selkirk succeeded the legendary Babe Ruth as the right fielder of the New York Yankees.

Demographics

'Racial Profile'

★ 98.5% White

★ 1.0% Aboriginal

★ 0.2% Korean

★ 0.2% other

★ 0.1% Chinese
'Religious Groups'

★ 57.0% Protestant

★ 15.6% Roman Catholic

★ 2.0% other Christian

★ 0.08% Jewish
'Age Group'

★ 0-14 years: 18.9%

★ 15-64 years: 67.6%

★ 65 years and over: 16.8%
The town of Huntsville grows by an average 1.78% a year.

Media

Radio

★ FM 94.3 - CBLU, CBC Radio One

★ FM 98.9 - CJLF-3, Christian

★ FM 105.5 - CFBK ("More FM"), hot adult contemporary

★ FM 106.9 - CBL-1, CBC Radio Two

Television

★ Channel 8: CBLT-TV-2 - CBC Television

★ Channel 11: CICI-TV-11 - CTV Northern Ontario

★ Channel 13: CICA-TV-13 - TVOntario

External links

★ Official website of the Town of Huntsville

★ Huntsville Festival of the Arts

★ Ontario Highway 11 Homepage - Huntsville


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