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Elmbank is a ghost town located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Once a thriving 19th century rural community located at the intersection of Fifth Line and Britannia Road, the hamlet was expropriated and eventually covered over by successive expansions of Toronto Pearson International Airport. A street east of the airport which once led to the hamlet is named "Elmbank Road", though nothing remains of the former community. ==History== Land in the area was cleared for farming beginning in the mid 1820s. The first resident was John Grubb, who emigrated from Scotland in 1831. Grubb built a home overlooking Etobicoke Creek, and named the place Elmbank. Other settlers followed, and the Elmbank community soon had a blacksmith, store, inn, schoolhouse, cheese factory, carriage maker, and Sons of Temperance Society Hall. No mills were located there. The Elmbank Post Office operated from 1873 to 1915, and the first postmaster, William McKay, operated out of his store.〔 Shell’s Chapel was built south of the community in 1831, named after Jacob and Henry Shell. The chapel was renamed Bethany Wesleyan Methodist Church and Cemetery, and then Bethany United Church in 1925. The last service was held in 1956, and the graves were relocated to Riverside Cemetery in Etobicoke.〔 Elmbank was noted for its importance to Toronto's Catholic community. The Catholic Mission and Cemetery, a log church constructed in 1833, was located in Elmbank and parishioners would travel from Toronto for mass or funerals. In 1885, a red brick church and rectory replaced the log church. The last recorded mass took place in 1915, and the church was torn down in 1932. Materials from the church such as pews, bricks and stained glass windows were reused in neighbouring churches.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Catholic Cemeteries – Archdiocese of Toronto )〕 Residents of Elmbank had a close association with the community of Malton, located a short distance northeast. The Elmbank soccer team, composed of young men from Elmbank and Malton, won the Peel league championship.〔 Residents of Elmbank also participated in Malton's day-long Callithumpian Parade, held annually beginning in 1896. The Sons of Temperance Society Hall was also used occasionally for lectures organized by the Malton Women's Institute, founded in 1906.〔 Elmbank's population peaked at 300 in 1886, and had declined to about 30 by 1926.〔 In 1937, the Toronto Harbour Commission selected Malton as the site for Toronto's airport. The rural land near Elmbank was expropriated and its buildings demolished with successive expansions of the airport. By the 1950s, the only visible remnant of the Elmbank community was the Catholic cemetery.〔 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「Elmbank, Ontario」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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