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Beamsville | |
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Unincorporated community | |
 King Street in Beamsville. | |
  Beamsville  Beamsville | |
| Coordinates:43°09′57″N79°28′35″W / 43.16583°N 79.47639°W /43.16583; -79.47639 | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Ontario |
| Regional Municipality | Niagara |
| Town | Lincoln |
| Founded | 1788 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Mayor-council government |
| • Mayor | Sandra Easton |
| • Governing Body | Town of Lincoln Council |
| • MP | Dean Allison (CPC) |
| • MPP | Sam Oosterhoff (PC) |
| Area | |
• Total | 9.19 km2 (3.55 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[2] | |
• Total | 13,323 |
| • Density | 1,287.6/km2 (3,335/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC−05:00 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−04:00 (EDT) |
| Forward sortation area | L3J, L0R 1B0, L0R 2N0, L0R 3B0 |
| Area code | 905 /289 /365 |
| Highways |  Queen Elizabeth Way |
| NTS Map | 030M03 |
| GNBC Code | FEGRM |
Beamsville (2021 Urban area estimated population 13,323)[2] is a community that is part of the town ofLincoln, Ontario, Canada. It is located along the southern shore ofLake Ontario and lies within the fruit belt of theNiagara Peninsula. It contains century-old brick buildings, an old-fashioned downtown area with barbershops, women's dress shops, a bakery, a print shop, restaurants, banks and other businesses, and manyorchards andvineyards.
Queen Elizabeth Way, the main road that connectsToronto andBuffalo, New York, has an interchange at Beamsville. Many tourists stop for something to eat at the many fast-food restaurants nearby.
Beamsville is in the heart of Ontario's wine country and contributes greatly to the wine industry in theNiagara Peninsula. Manywineries from the area have won top awards locally and internationally, including Grape King at the Niagara Grape & Wine Festival.[3]
Alanson Harris operated a foundry making farm tools that became farm implements makerMassey Harris.
Beamsville was named after Jacob Beam (1723-1812), aUnited Empire Loyalist. Both of his homes—the original one, on Thirty Mile Creek, and the one near downtown Beamsville—are still intact.
Jacob Beam (1723-1812), his wife Anna Catharine (Boughner) Beam (1737-1820) and their daughter Catharine (Beam) Merrell (1766-1842) and son-in-law Samuel Russell Merrell (1757-1835), emigrated to Canada from Hopewell, Sussex County, New Jersey in 1788, and founded Beamsville.
By 1869, it was a village of 550 in the Township of Clinton, Lincoln County, on theGreat Western Railway.[4]
In 1898, hockey players in Beamsville were the first to use a hockey net.
In 1917 theRoyal Flying Corps established aSchool of Aerial Fighting on the farmland immediately east of Beamsville. It consisted of a camp, an airfield, and a gunnery range over Lake Ontario. Today an historical plaque at 4222 Sann Road marks the geographical centre of the 300-acre school property.[5] Adjacent to the plaque is an original hangar building.[6]
In 1970, the Town of Beamsville was amalgamated with Clinton Township and (half of) Louth Township to form the larger Town ofLincoln.
Beamsville has two secondary schools (grades 9–12) and three elementary schools (Kindergarten to Grade 8).
Beamsville used to have a public secondary school,Beamsville District Secondary School. Beamsville District Secondary School, on Central Avenue, was established in 1888[7] and draws students from all over the Town of Lincoln. Its current principal is Mr. Miller, and the current student population is just over 400.[8]
There are two public elementary schools located in Beamsville, Senator Gibson Public School[9] and Jacob Beam Public School.[10]
TheNiagara Catholic District School Board has two elementary schools in Beamsville (St. Johns and St. Mark). St. Mark Catholic Elementary School was opened in 2001. It has undergone a large expansion in 2011, growing to 22 classrooms. The current enrollment at St. Mark is 541 students. St. Johns Catholic Elementary School was built in 1958 and the current enrollment is 346 students[11]
Great Lakes Christian High School is a private, four-year coeducational day and boarding Christian high school affiliated with theChurches of Christ.[12]
Beamsville is home to numerous Dutch andUnited Empire Loyalist families, as evidenced by its large number ofDutch Reformed andAnglican churches.
William Fairbrother, inventor of the hockey net, lived in Beamsville.Bill Berg, formerly a hockey player for theToronto Maple Leafs and now anNational Hockey League (NHL) broadcaster, was born, and continues to make his home in Beamsville.Paul Laus, a formerFlorida Panthers defenceman, andRyan Christie, who played seven games with the Dallas Stars and Calgary Flames, are also Beamsville natives.
Another Beamsville native,Tonya Verbeek, earned an Olympic silver medal in women's wrestling at the2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She won a bronze medal at the2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, and another silver medal at the2012 Summer Olympics in London, England.
Beamsville natives Ralph Reid and Lloyd Southward wereLancaster pilots during theSecond World War and both received the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC).
Another Beamsville native is formerCanadian Football League (CFL) running backAndre Sadeghian, who was drafted in the third round of the 2007 CFL Draft by theBC Lions and played four seasons with the Lions, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, the Saskatchewan Roughriders, and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
Evelyn Dick, known for the murder of her estranged husband John Dick, was born and lived in this town.
Performance artist, writer and former sex workerNina Arsenault grew up in a trailer park in Beamsville.
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