In 1843, the village was originally calledVanSickle after local miller Benony VanSickle. In 1853, Jeremiah Bishop renamed the community afterLyndon, Vermont.[1]
David Forsyth, considered to be the Father of Canadian Soccer was brought to Lynden from Scotland at the age of one in 1853. He attended school in Lynden, then in the Spring of 1865 he entered Dundas High School. Later he went on to attend Galt Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto. He formed the Western Football (Soccer) Association in Berlin, Ontario in 1880, one of the oldest soccer associations in the world.
Steve Ihnat, actor and movie director, although born in Czechoslovakia, attended Lynden Public School from the age of 5.
