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Bells Corners is a suburban community in College Ward in the city of Ottawa, Canada. It is located in the former city of Nepean within Ottawa's western Greenbelt. As of the Canada 2011 Census, the community had a population of 9,468.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/index.cfm?Lang=E )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/index.cfm?Lang=E )〕 ==History== The community owes its existence to its location on the Richmond Road midway between Richmond Landing near Bytown (now Ottawa) and the military settlement at Richmond, at the junction with the concession road leading west to the Hazeldean neighbourhood in neighbouring Goulbourn Township. It was also the junction between Richmond Road and the "base line" which was the boundary road between concessions on the Ottawa front and those on the Rideau front. Hence, the plural "Corners". It was named after Hugh Bell, who owned a tavern on the site of the present day Bells Corners Public School from 1834 to 1863. Prior to that it was known locally as just "the Corners", but when the first post office opened on 6 August 1851 it had to adopt a formal name and became Bell's Corners.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://rediscoverottawa.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/patchwork-communities-of-historical-nepean/ )〕 Today it is most commonly spelled without the apostrophe. In 1832, there were 9 taverns along this strip of road. Early stores catered to both local people and travelers. In 1841 the Carleton County Agricultural Society was formed and held its annual exhibition in Bells Corners until 1895, when it was moved to Goodwood Park in the Town of Richmond and later became the Richmond Fair.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ottawacommunitynews.com/news-story/4893860-richmond-fair-goes-back-to-1844/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.richmondfair.ca/RAS_history.html )〕 In 1850, Bells Corners became part of Nepean Township, Carleton County. The Town meeting to elect the first Council under the new system was held at Bells Corners on 7 January 1850. Frederick Bearman, J.P., Chester Chapman, James Spain, John Robertson, J.P., Michael Grady were elected as Councillors. The first Council meeting was also held in Bells Corners on 21 January 1850, when Colonel Frederick Bearman was chosen Reeve.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bytown.net/sourcechapman1.htm )〕 By 1852, there were 3 taverns, 3 shoe shops, 2 blacksmiths, 2 carpentry shops, a new store, and a tailor. The Canada Directory for 1857-58 listed the population of Bells Corners at about 70. It listed the following people: By 1866/7 Bells Corners was a post village with a population of 150 in the township of Nepean, county of Carleton, on the Ottawa and Nepean Macadamized road, 10 miles from Ottawa. The village had a daily mail, two stores, a school and a church which was used by the Church of England, Presbyterians, and Wesleyan Methodists. The early citizens included: Adam Abbott, a general merchant; Hugh I Bell, a farmer; George Arnold, a postmaster; E. Brown, a bailiff 7th Division Court; and William Brownlee, a general merchant boot & shoemaker. In 1866, the 43rd Battalion of Infantry (otherwise known as the Carleton Blazers) was formed in Bells Corners with companies in many of the surrounding communities and absorbed Ottawa's volunteer rifle company. By 1869, Bell's Corners was on the stage line from Town Ottawa to Perth. That directory listed the following individuals:〔The province of Ontario gazetteer and directory. H. McEvoy Editor and Compiler, Toronto : Robertson & Cook, Publishers, 1869〕 Most of Bells Corners was destroyed by fire in August 1870.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.goulbournmuseum.ca/educate/resources/.../goulbmus_ccountyfire.pdf )〕 The oldest buildings in Bells Corners are the East India Company restaurant and conference centre, formerly Hartin's Hotel, built after the fire in 1870 on the site of Robert Malcomson's Tavern (David Hartin was married to Robert Malcomson's daughter Sarah); and, The Spa which occupies the old Drummond Methodist Church built in 1898. This church used stone from the old Union Church (now the site of the Bells Corners Union Cemetery on Old Richmond Road) built in 1853 and the only building in Bells Corners to survive the fire of 1870.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bcuc.org/history.htm )〕 Some notable residents of the time: * George Arnold - postmaster and owner of Arnold's General Store * Hugh Bell - tavern owner * David Hartin - hotel owner * John Foster - farmer, councilman; settled 1832 * Robert Malcomson - tavern owner * Robert Moodie Jr. - tavern owner, hotel keeper; settled 1850〔 * John Robertson - general store owner * Richard Shore - carriage maker; settled 1877〔 * A. Spittle - hotel keeper〔 * Stephen H. Waggoner - toll gate keeper〔 * C. J. Walker - farmer; settled 1878〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bells Corners」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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