County Rd 6 RR # 2,
Yarker, Ontario
K0K 3N0

Ontario Tourism Region : The Great Waterway

Phone : (613) 377-1161
Your Host(s) : Colebrook General Store

Description From Owner:

• Pop. 204. In Camden T., Lennox & Addington Cs., on the Napanee R. and C. Rds. 5 and 6, 26 km NW of Kingston: The settlement was first known as Peters' Mills after Eli Peters who built a sawmill here in the early 1800s.
• The founder of the village, however, was Charles Warner who built the first store, bought and expanded Peters' mill, laid out a townsite and petitioned the government for a post office.
• When the post office opened, the communIty s name changed to Colebrook. One explanation for the name is that the post office was located in the store of Cole Warner; the other is that the place was named after Sir William MacBean George Colebrook
• lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick during the 1840s.
• Early industries included a company that produced wooden eavestroughs, and a 'feather renovating factory' that removed feathers from mattresses pillows and ticks, cleaned and fluffed them up and returned them to the covers.
• Everett Shangraw operated a factory producing penetrating oil he marketed under the trade name 'Casite.'
• From Ontario Place Names 2007 David E. Scott Ph. 866 471 4123 or 905 680 7884

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