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Haldimand House
Haldimand House, located in the heart of Caledonia, Ontario is one of the town's oldest and most prominent local landmarks.
==Early Years==
The history goes back to 1834 when Ranald McKinnon was hired by the Grand River Navigation Company to construct Caledonia Dam and Lock number 3 at Caledonia. At this time the town was just a small village with buildings clustered around the corner of what today is Argyle Street North and Caithness Street. When McKinnon came to Caledonia it was a vast wilderness, with only this main corner cleared and settled. There was a tavern owned by a Mr. Bryant, and a log cabin owned by a Native man. The South side of the Grand River at Caledonia had not yet seen any development. McKinnon, after completing the dam and lock for the Navigation Co., decided to settle in Caledonia and bought up vast sums of land on the North side of the River. He started industry in Caledonia with the construction of three water-powered mills. One for flour, one for textiles, and a saw mill.It wasn't until McKinnon pushed for the Hamilton-Port Dover Plank Road to cross the Grand River at Caledonia that South side development became feasible. James Little was an Irish immigrant to the Dominion and settled in the Seneca Village (just East of Caledonia, past the present day Fairgrounds). Little was post-master for Seneca, Caledonia and Oneida, and owned a saw mill and feed mill in the Seneca Village. When he heard of the Hamilton- Dover plank Road crossing in Caledonia he took a chance and petitioned the government to purchase lots of land on the South side of the river at Caledonia.In 1836 he started construction on his first Caledonia business venture, a stagecoach inn, which he would call Haldimand House after Sir Frederick Haldimand: Governor of Upper Canada at the time. Shortly after beginning construction on Haldimand House, Little received his Crown patents and was legally given possession of the land he was developing. Haldimand House was built three stories high using squared timbers cut at Little's Seneca saw mill. Just before finishing construction, Little had his Seneca house moved off its foundation and put on a barge to be pulled up-river and added to the back of Haldimand House.
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