History of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

Peterborough, a town of Ontario, capital of the co. of Peterborough, on the navigable Ontonabee River, with a station on the Midland Railway, 31 miles N.E. of Port Hope, and 94 miles N.E. of Toronto. it contains, besides the county buildings, 6 churches, 4 branch banks, 2 newspaper offices, about 70 stores, several saw-and grist-mills, and manufactories of iron castings, steam-engines, machinery, agricultural implements, leather, woollens, wooden-ware, & c., and has a large export trade in grain, pork, and lumber. The streets are well laid out and lighted with gas, and a handsome bridge connects the town with Ashburnham, on the opposite bank of the Otonabee. Pop. (1891) 9717.