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Delhi (pronounced DEL-High) is a former township (now an unincorporated community) located off of the junction of Ontario Highways 59 and 3. Delhi is known as the "Heart of Tobacco Country."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://delhiharvestfest.tripod.com/ )〕 Prior to 1880, this community was known for its lumber industry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.delhiontario.info/history/quance_mill/history_Quance.php )〕 Founded by Frederick Sovereign as Sovereign's Corners around 1826, the community was renamed Fredericksburg and eventually to its present-day name of Delhi.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.norfolktourism.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=62&Itemid=66 )〕 The name is usually attributed locally to a postmaster honouring a major city of the British Empire, Delhi, India. ==History== Delhi Cemetery was first established sometime in the 19th century. While it was originally a cemetery exclusively for residents who were religiously involved in the Roman Catholic Church, changes in cemetery policy made it possible to have anyone buried or interned on their property. At least 111 people and/or families hold their final resting place here.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.canadianheadstones.com/on/cemetery.php?cemID=1380&pg=1 )〕 The last names of the graves belong to different ethnic groups ranging from Anglo-Saxon, French Canadian, Eastern European, and those of Belgian descent. There are even few Chinese families buried within the cemetery and a wide amount of tombstones are written in languages other than English. Back in the 1960s, Delhi had their own police station complete with its own jail.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.robinkers.com/tobacco.html )〕 Most non-essential services and places of business would traditionally close earlier on Wednesday afternoons until the 1970s. While this would make them economically uncompetitive with other counties, this would allow employees to spend more with their families at home. Other economic factors would eventually force most businesses to operate even on Sundays, including the abolition of Canada's blue laws in 1985. Delhi had its own town hall and mayor until the municipal structure of Norfolk County was centralized on January 1, 2000; mayor Roger Vermulen resigned at that point and was replaced by Norfolk County mayor Rita Kalmbach by the end of 2000. This community reached a state of economic stagnation with the early-2000s decline in the tobacco industry; this problem has also affected the rest of the Ontario tobacco belt including the nearby community of Tillsonburg. While Quance Dam received an all-time high in water levels during the unusually warm winter of 2009, recent droughts and the erosion of the older portion of the dam is putting the future of this local public works facility into jeopardy. Partly inactive since the 1930s, it was sold to the Quance family in 1987. The newest part of Quance Dam was completed in 1995 once plans to convert it into a hydroelectric plant fell through.〔 More than 1000 fish pass through Quance Dam on an annual basis; a great decrease since 1959 when more than 4000 fish would pass through. The reason for the collapse in fish population was sedimentation, the introduction of stocked fish and human development. 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「Delhi, Ontario」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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