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Sharon is a former village which has been incorporated into the municipality of the Town of East Gwillimbury, Ontario, Canada, formerly the Township of East Gwillimbury. The municipal offices of the town are located in Sharon. The community's most historic building is the Sharon Temple, the one-time meeting house of the Children of Peace (or Davidites). It is part of the musical, political, religious and architectural heritage of Ontario, and is now a museum and National Historic Site of Canada. The museum hosts a number of concerts and educational programs, and has hosted the Words Alive Literary Festival since 2007. In the mid to late 1980s, housing developments were built in the area around Sharon. Further developments have continued slowly around Sharon since 2002. Prominent residents have included wrestling legend Whipper Billy Watson, comedian John Candy, Olympian Veronica Brenner, and Barkley Good, creator of the 1990s pet training seminars "Joyce: Be Good!". ==History== The village of Sharon grew around the farm of David Willson (Lot 10, Second Conc.), the leader of the Quaker denomination known as the Children of Peace. The Children of Peace constructed a series of meeting houses on Willson's farm, which became the core of the utopian community they called Hope. They changed the name to Sharon in 1841 to acquire a post office. File:SharonTemple.jpg|The Sharon Temple (1825–32) File:Second Meeting House.jpg|The Second Meeting House (1842, church) File:David Willsons study.jpg|David Willson's Study (1829), Sharon Temple Museum File:Doan house.jpg|Ebenezer Doan House (1819), Sharon Temple Museum File:Sharon keyboard organ.jpg|Richard Coates' Keyboard Organ, Sharon Temple Museum File:Rebellion box.jpg|Rebellion Box, Sharon Temple Museum File:Sharon Temple Jacobs ladder.jpg|Jacob's Ladder, Sharon Temple 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「Sharon, Ontario」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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