Civil and Municipal - Mar 2023

114 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3 OMMUNITY he Municipality of Meaford, Ontario is located on some 227 square miles of land where the Bighead River meets Nottawasaga Bay, a sub-basin of Georgian Bay, about 110 miles northeast of Toronto. First inhabited by the Saugeen Ojibway Nation, its first European settlers arrived in the early 1800s. The new émigré community’s growth exploded in the second half of the 19th century due to its water, road, and railway connections. By the time Meaford became a town in T