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Cultural Heritage Assessment Report
CULTURAL HERITAGE ASSESSMENT REPORT BUILT HERITAGE &
CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPE
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY REPORT SECOND TRENT RIVER CROSSING—CAMPBELLFORD
COUNTY OF NORTHUMBERLAND, MUNICIPALITY OF TRENT HILLS
April 2009
Prepared for: AECOM Canada Ltd.
Prepared by:
CULTURAL HERITAGE ASSESMENT REPORT
BUILT HERITAGE & CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPE
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY REPORT
SECOND TRENT RIVER CROSSING—CAMPBELLFORD COUNTY OF NORTHUMBERLAND,
MUNICIPALITY OF TRENT HILLS
April 2009
Prepared for: AECOM Canada Ltd.
300 Water Street Whitby, Ontario, L1N 9J2
Prepared by: Unterman McPhail Associates
Heritage Resource Management Consultants 540 Runnymede Road
Toronto, Ontario, M6S 2Z7 Tel: 416-766-7333
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
1.0 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Purpose of Report 2
2.0 ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT & CULTURAL HERITAGE
RESOURCES 2
2.1 Environmental Assessment Act (EAA) 2
2.1.1 Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) 3
2.2 Ontario Heritage Act (OHA) 3
2.3 Ministry of Culture 4
3.0 ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY 5
3.1 Introduction 5
3.2 Public Consultation and Recognition 6
4.0 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 7
4.1 Seymour Township 7
4.1.1 Railway Development 9
4.1.2 Trent-Severn Canal 10
4.1.3 Hydro-electric Development 10
4.2 Campbellford 11
5.0 DESCRIPTION OF THE EXISTING CONDITIONS 13
5.1 Introduction 13
5.2 Description of the Existing Environment 14
5.2.1 Campbellford Historical Core 16
5.2.2 Outside Campbellford Historical Core 16
5.3 Description of Identified Built Heritage Resources and Cultural
Heritage Landscapes 17
6.0 IDENTIFICATION OF BUILT HERITAGE & CULTURAL
HERITAGE LANDSCAPES 58
6.1 Description of Potential Impacts 58
6.2 Assessment of Potential Impacts 58
6.2.1 Disruption Impacts 58
6.2.2 Displacement Impacts 64
6.3 Results of Impact Assessment 67
6.3.1 Preferred Bridge Alternatives 68
7.0 MITIGATION RECOMMENDATIONS
SOURCES
Appendix A: Historical Maps
Appendix B: Historical Photographs
LIST OF FIGURES
Page
Figure 1. Location of study area. 1
Figure 2. Alternate Southerly Bridge Crossing Alignments of Trent
River, Campbellford [TSH June 2008].
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Figure 3. Additional Trent River Bridge Crossings within historic core of
Campbellford [TSH, November 12, 2008].
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LIST OF TABLES
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Table 1. Meyers Island Road/James Road to Bradley Road to CR8—
Identified Cultural Heritage Landscapes and Built Heritage
Resources Within and Adjacent to alignment.
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Table 2. 4th
Line—Identified Cultural Heritage Landscapes and Built
Heritage Resources Within and Adjacent to alignment.
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Table 3. 5th
Line #1—Identified Cultural Heritage Landscapes and Built
Heritage Resources Within and Adjacent to alignment.
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Table 4. 5th
Line 1A—Identified Cultural Heritage Landscapes and Built
Heritage Resources Within and Adjacent to alignment.
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Table 5. Alma Street/Doxsee Avenue South—Identified Cultural
Heritage Landscapes and Built Heritage Resources Within and
Adjacent to alignment.
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Table 6. Alma Street/Second Street— Identified Cultural Heritage
Landscapes and Built Heritage Resources Within and Adjacent
to alignment.
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Table 7. Canrobert Street/River Street #1— Identified Cultural Heritage
Landscapes and Built Heritage Resources Within and Adjacent
to alignment.
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Table 8. Canrobert Street/River Street #2— Identified Cultural Heritage
Landscapes and Built Heritage Resources Within and Adjacent
to alignment.
37
Table 9. Bridge Street Twining South—Identified Cultural Heritage
Landscapes and Built Heritage Resources Within and Adjacent
to alignment.
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Table 10. Bridge Street Twining North—Identified Cultural Heritage
Landscapes and Built Heritage Resources Within and Adjacent
to alignment.
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Table 11. Garry Street/Market Street—Identified Cultural Heritage
Landscapes and Built Heritage Resources Within and Adjacent
to alignment.
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Table 12. Church Street/Market Street—Identified Cultural Heritage
Landscapes and Built Heritage Resources Within and Adjacent
to alignment.
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1.0 INTRODUCTION
AECOM Canada Ltd, formerly TSH Associates, retained Unterman McPhail Associates,
Heritage Management Resource Consultants in 2008 to undertake a desktop review of the
built heritage and cultural heritage landscape of the study area for the Alma
Street/Second Street bridge alignment as part of the Environmental Study Report (ESR)
for the Second Trent River Crossing—Campbellford, County of Northumberland,
Municipality of Trent Hills. As part of the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment
process, the ESR will identify and report on alternatives for a second crossing of the
Trent River for vehicular and pedestrian traffic. This report was completed and submitted
in April 2008.
Subsequent to the desktop study, Unterman McPhail Associates were requested to
complete a field survey in relation to built heritage and cultural heritage landscapes for
the preferred Alma/Second Street Alternative Trent River Bridge Crossing to confirm and
augment the original desktop existing conditions report. This survey work was conducted
on October 2, 2008.
In December 2009 Unterman McPhail Associates were requested to complete a field
survey of twelve (12) proposed bridge alternatives for the Trent River Bridge Crossing
within the larger study area of the 2008 desktop review. The survey of other bridge
crossing alternatives was completed in January 2009. This cultural heritage resource
Figure 1. Location of Study
Area.
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assessment report is provided to AECOM Canada Ltd. as a summary of the potential
impacts to cultural heritage landscapes and built heritage resources for the twelve (12)
proposed bridge alternatives for the Trent River Bridge Crossing. The assessment of the
impacts is based upon mapping provided by AECOM Canada Ltd. This information will
be used by AECOM Canada Ltd. to assist in the determination of the preferred alternative
for the Trent River Bridge Crossing.
1.1 Purpose of Report
The principal objectives of this cultural heritage resource assessment report are:
• to prepare an historical summary of the Euro-Canadian settlement history and
development of the study area;
• to conduct a windshield survey to identify built heritage resources and cultural
heritage landscapes found along the selected Trent River bridge crossing alternatives;
• to identify sensitivities for change due to the undertaking;
• to review the potential impacts to built heritage resources and cultural heritage
landscapes; and,
• to make general mitigation recommendations for built heritage resources and cultural
heritage landscapes regarding the proposed endeavor.
2.0 ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT & CULTURAL HERITAGE
RESOURCES
The need for the identification, evaluation, management and conservation of Ontario's
heritage is acknowledged as an essential component of environmental assessment and
municipal planning in Ontario.
This analysis of cultural heritage resources in the study area addresses those above-
ground, person-made heritage resources over 40 years old. The application of this rolling
forty year principle is an accepted federal and provincial practice for the preliminary
identification of cultural heritage resources that may be of heritage value. Its application
does not imply however that all built heritage resources or cultural heritage landscapes
that are over forty years old are worthy of the same levels of protection or preservation.
2.1 Environmental Assessment Act (EAA)
Environmental Assessment or EA is a decision-making process used to promote good
environmental planning by assessing the potential effects and benefits of certain activities
on the environment. In Ontario, this process is defined and finds its authority in the
Environmental Assessment Act (EAA). The purpose of the EAA is to provide for the
protection, conservation, and wise management of Ontario's environment.
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The analysis throughout the study process addresses that part of the Environmental
Assessment Act, subsection 1(c), which defines “environment” to include:
“...cultural conditions that influence the life of humans or a community”;
as well as,
“any building, structure, machine or other device or thing made by humans”.
New bridges and associated construction activities may potentially affect cultural heritage
resources in a number of ways. The effects may include displacement through removal or
demolition and/or disruption by the introduction of physical, visual, audible or
atmospheric elements that are not in keeping with the character of the cultural heritage
resources and, or their setting.
2.1.1 Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA)
The Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) outlines a procedure whereby
municipalities can comply with the requirements of the Environmental Assessment Act.
The latest version was approved in October 2000 and amended in 2007. It identifies
potential positive and negative effects of projects such as road improvements, facility
expansions or to facilitate a new service. The process includes an extensive evaluation of
impacts on the natural and social environment. The Municipal Class EA applies to
municipal infrastructure projects including roads, water and wastewater projects. Since
projects undertaken by municipalities can vary in their environmental impact, such
projects are classified in terms of schedules. Schedule A generally includes normal or
emergency operational and maintenance activities where the environmental effects of
these activities are usually minimal, and therefore these projects are pre-approved.
Schedule B generally includes improvements and minor expansions to existing facilities
where there is the potential for some adverse environmental impacts and therefore, the
municipality is required to proceed through a screening process including consultation
with those who may be affected and Schedule C generally includes the construction of
new facilities and major expansions to existing facilities, and these projects proceed
through a five phased environmental assessment planning process.
2.2 Ontario Heritage Act (OHA)
The Ontario Heritage Act gives the Ontario Ministry of Culture (MCL) the responsibility
for the conservation, protection and preservation of Ontario’s culture heritage resources.
Section 2 of the Ontario Heritage Act (OHA) charges the Minister with the responsibility
to,
“...determine policies, priorities and programs for the conservation, protection and
preservation of the heritage of Ontario.”
The Ministry of Culture describes heritage buildings and structures, cultural heritage
landscapes and archaeological resources as cultural heritage resources. Since cultural
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heritage resources may be impacted adversely by both public and private land
development, it is incumbent upon planning and approval authorities to consider heritage
resources when making planning decisions.
Heritage attributes, in relation to a property, are defined in the OHA as the attributes of
the property that cause it to have cultural heritage value or interest. Part IV of the OHA
enables municipalities to list, and to designate by by-law properties of cultural value or
interest after consultation with its municipal advisory committee, if one is appointed.
Under OHA subsection 27 (1), the municipal clerk is required to keep a current register of
properties of cultural heritage value or interest located in their municipality. The
municipal register must include all properties designated under Part IV of the OHA by the
municipality or by the Minister of Culture. Municipal designation of heritage resources
under Part IV the OHA publicly recognizes and promotes awareness of heritage
properties, provides a process for ensuring that changes to a heritage property are
appropriately managed and that these changes respect the property’s heritage value. This
includes protection from demolition. Once a property has been designated and notice has
been given to the Ontario Heritage Trust, the property is then listed on the provincial
register of heritage properties.
The alteration process under the OHA section 33 helps to ensure the heritage attributes of
a designated property, and therefore its heritage value, are conserved. If an owner of a
designated property wishes to make alterations to the property that affects the property’s
heritage attributes, the owner must obtain written consent from the council. This applies
not only to the alteration of the buildings or structures but also to alterations of other
aspects of the designated property, such as landscape features or natural features, which
have been identified as heritage attributes.
The OHA subsection 27 (1.2) also allows a property that is not designated, but considered
to be of cultural heritage interest or value by the municipal council, to be placed on the
register. This is commonly referred to as “listing”. In many cases, listed (non-designated
properties) are candidates for designation protection under OHA section 29. Once a
property is listed under the OHA, any application to demolish the building on a listed
property is delayed fro 60 days under OHA 27(3).
Under Part V of the OHA the council of a municipality may undertake a study of any area
of the municipality for the purpose of designating one or more heritage conservation
districts. If the council of a municipality has established a municipal heritage committee
under OHA section 28, the council shall consult with the committee with respect to the
study.
2.3 Ministry of Culture
The Ministry of Culture (MCL) guidelines assist in the assessment of cultural heritage
resources as part of an environmental assessment. They are, Guideline for Preparing the
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Cultural Heritage Resource Component of Environmental Assessments (October 1992),
and, Guidelines on the Man-Made Heritage Component of Environmental Assessments
(1980). The Guidelines on the Man-Made Heritage Component of Environmental
Assessments state:
“When speaking of man-made heritage we are concerned with works of man and
the effects of his activities in the environment rather than with moveable human
artifacts or those environments that are natural and completely undisturbed by
man.”
The guidelines state one may distinguish broadly between two basic ways of visually
experiencing cultural heritage resources in the environment, that is, as cultural heritage
landscapes and as built heritage. Cultural heritage landscapes are a geographical area
perceived as a collection of individual person-made built heritage resources set into a
whole such as historical settlements, farm complexes, waterscapes, roadscapes, railways,
etc. They emphasize the interrelationship of people and the natural environment and
convey information about the processes and activities that have shaped a community.
Cultural heritage landscapes may be organically evolved landscapes as opposed to
designed landscapes. Some are ‘continuing landscapes’, which maintain the historic use
and continue to evolve, while others are ‘relict landscapes’ where the evolutionary
process has come to an end but important landscape or built heritage resources from its
historic use are still visible. Built heritage resources comprise individual, person-made or
modified, parts of a cultural heritage landscape such as buildings or structures of various
types including, but not limited to, cemeteries, planting and landscaping structures, etc.
The guidelines also describe the attributes necessary for the identification and evaluation
of any discrete aggregation of person-made features or cultural heritage landscapes and
the attributes necessary for the identification and evaluation of built heritage resources.
3.0 ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY
3.1 Introduction
For the identification of built heritage and cultural heritage landscapes, Unterman
McPhail Associates undertook the following desktop activities tasks:
o A review of the major historical themes and activities of the study area through
the analysis of local history and topographical and historic mapping;
o the identification of existing built heritage resources and cultural heritage
landscapes within the study area through major historical themes and activities
and historic mapping;
o review of previous background EA reports regarding cultural heritage resources;
and,
o review of the report Stage One Archaeological Assessment of Bridge Crossings
and Road Network Options, Town of Campbellford, Northumberland County,
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Ontario prepared by Archaeological Services Inc. (ASI) based upon a 1995
windshield survey. This report noted the Campbellford Baptist Church on the
west side of the river at 166 Grand Road, a number of 19th century, brick
residences located on both sides of the river, the Spite House at 17 Second Street,
and the Orange Hall on the west side of the Trent River at 120 Grand Road. The
ASI report described the cultural landscape associated with the former CNR
crossing as substantially altered.
In October 2008 Unterman McPhail Associates completed a field survey of the preferred
Alma Street/Second Street bridge alternative. In January 2009 a windshield survey of the
other alternative bridge crossings was completed.
3.2 Public Consultation and Recognition
The Coordinator of Human Resources and Special Projects, Municipality of Municipality
of Trent Hills provided a list of designated heritage properties within the municipality.
Several properties located within or adjacent the Trent River Bridge Crossing alternatives
were identified in Campbellford as being municipally designated under the Ontario
Heritage Act (OHA). They include:
o 113 Front Street North, Heritage Centre;
o 37 Saskatoon Avenue;
o 58 Saskatoon Avenue, Fire Hall;
o 17 Second Street, Spite House;
o 95 Doxsee Street; and,
o Cenotaph, Park on Trent River, Queen Street.
There are no known municipal or provincial conservation easement properties,
cemeteries within or adjacent the Trent River Bridge Crossing alternatives.
An Ontario Heritage Trust commemorative plaque for the Founders of Campbellford is
located in the public park on Queen Street beside the Trent River. The Trent–Severn
Waterway, which is a recognized as a national historic site, runs through the study area. It
is under the federal jurisdiction of the Parks Canada.
An interpretive plaque for the Trent-Severn and a commemorative plaque for History of
Trent Valley Woollen and Campbellford Cloth Company are located in the Old Mill Park
at Bridge Street.
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4.0 HISTORICAL SUMMARY
4.1 Seymour Township
The earliest settler in Seymour Township is reputed to have been Barnabas Bronson
c1806. William Brown surveyed the township for the first time in 1819. Samuel S.
Wilmot, D.L.S. resurveyed the township 1832-33. The township was laid out with
fourteen concession roads running west to east and sideroads running north to south.
Early settlement occurred in the 1820s and early 1830s. Former military officers Lieut-
Col. Robert Campbell and Major David Campbell received 2200 acres of land in
Seymour Township in 1831, and then purchased another 1000 acres of land. Major David
Campbell was appointed Crown Land Commissioner for Seymour Township (1832-
1839) and through his position encouraged many retired British military men to settle in
the township with their families. Settlers generally arrived in the township overland from
Cobourg on Lake Ontario, crossing by ferry at Percy Landing. Later a ferry was
established from Rice Lake to Healey Falls.
The land was also developed for agriculture in the 19th
century from the time of
settlement onwards. Grist mills were built on the west side of the Trent River at Ranney
Falls and Meyersburg to grind the grain of the early settlers. There were no roads with the
exception of a trail cleared by the government along the Trent River from Government
Landing near Percy Boom to Shea’ Bay. New settlers acquired supplies and lodging at
the Government landing before traveling to their land. Provisions were carried in by
sleigh in the winter and by water in the summer. Eventually there were stagecoach runs
between Campbellford and other communities such as Brighton, Havelock and Hastings
and beyond.
A small settlement called the ”The Patch’ grew up at Ranney Falls c1834. A post office
was opened, a small of schoolhouse and a small Anglican congregation (1835) were
established. To the south the small hamlet of Meyersburg was established at the site of A.
H. Meyer’s sawmill and gristmill. The community also became a coach stop or mail and
passengers.1 Several businesses were destroyed in 1870 including the R. C. Wilkins
mills.2 To the north at the original river ford, which was located north of the present
bridge crossing, businesses and commercial enterprises congregated on both sides of the
Trent River. Emilyville on the west and the original town on the east joined to become
Campbellford in the mid 1840s.
Smith’s Gazetteer (1846) notes Seymour Township had a mixture of pine and hardwood
timber with two gristmills and six saw mills in operation. The logging industry was
developed along the Trent River Valley to extract large red and white pine for exportation
to Britain in the early 19th
century, and was finished by the early 1850s. Several saw mills
1 Ibid, 16.
2 Ibid, 40.
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have been erected on the Trent and Crowe rivers since the late 1840s.3 The square timber
trade was replaced by the lumber industry, which harvested the remaining timber and
smaller trees. The Census Return (1851) for Seymour Township noted that the men on
the farms were away working for the lumber companies. The farmers grew wheat,
although it had become more expensive to do so. The township was favoured by
lumbermen for its timber. By 1851 the best timber had already been taken.
In support of the lumber industry both the federal government and private interests
funded the construction of wooden dams with log sluices and timber sluices along the
Trent and Crowe rivers. A dam was built at Healy Falls as an improvement under the Act
to Improve the Navigation of the Inland Waters of the Newcastle District (1836).4 Timber
slides were built on the Crowe and Trent rivers in the mid 1840s with one at Ranney
Falls. The upper slide at Ranney Falls was 1,102 feet long and the lower one was 390 feet
long. After the government decided to divest itself of the locks, dams, slides, roads and
water powers in the Newcastle District in 1850, lumberman took over ownership of a
number of the slides including the one at Ranney Falls in the 1850s, operating the until it
was destroyed in 1870 by a severe flood.5
The first Seymour Township council meeting was held on January 21, 1850, with a
township hall built in Campbellford in 1855. Over the years it served as a jail,
schoolhouse, market, community centre and council chambers for the township.6 The
township hall was moved to the second floor Ferris Building on the southwest corner of
Bridge and Front Streets in 1894. The arrival of the railways in the latter part of the 19th
century greatly increased access to and promoted commerce in the township and
Campbellford.
Although plans for the Trent-Severn Canal were started in the 19th
century, the canal
construction on the Campbellford section did not begin until 1910. Initially in the 19th
century the canal was conceived as a transportation project. By 1907 when the federal
government approved the construction of the Trent Canal it had become more of a matter
of controlling the electric power along the waterway. On the Trent River, Campbellford
already owned water privileges at Crowe Bay and a small power plant at the old
government dam, while the operators of the Northumberland Paper and Power Electric
Company wanted to develop sites at Ranney Falls, while the Seymour Power and Electric
Company desired a site at the falls above the town.
After much discussion, the canal route selected included a high dam at Ranney Falls, the
construction of retaining walls along the Trent River through Campbellford, and a route
behind the Northumberland Paper and Electric Company to Locks 11 and 12. As a result
3 Margaret Crothers, ed. Gleanings: A History of Campbellford/Seymour (Campbellford/ Seymour Heritage
Society, 2000) 1-4. 4 Ibid, 33.
5 Ibid, 34-35.
6 Ibid, 17.
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of this route selection five Campbellford mills lost their power source, and the Dickinson
dam at Campbellford was removed. The hydro-electric stations were developed at
Ranney Falls and Hague’s Reach on the Trent River in the early 20th century.
Other local improvements in the 20th
century around Campbellford included the creation
of Provincial Highway 30 from Brighton to Havelock in 1930, with the section from
Meyersburg to Campbellford paved prior to 1934. The West River Road was paved
northward to Healey Falls in 1961 and then extended to Highway 7. The Province of
Ontario acquired land for the Ferris Provincial Park, located north of Campbellford on the
east side of the Trent River in the latter part of the 20th
century. The Lower Trent
Conservation was formed in 1968. Subsequently the Seymour Conservation Area on the
west side of the Trent River, south of Campbellford, was opened.
4.1.1 Railway Development
The Grand Junction Railway acquired a charter to build a railway line from Belleville to
Peterborough in the early 1870s, with the objective of connecting with the Midland Line
and the grain route from Western Canada. The line arrived in Campbellford in 1878 and
was extended to Peterborough in 1880. The original line followed a long and circuitous
route through the village with numerous level crossings and a curved wooden-trestle
bridge spanning the river north of the present bridge. Eventually this line was taken over
by the Midland Railway, which became the Grand Trunk, and then the Canadian National
Railway.
A new southern route through Campbellford was opened in 1899 with a railway bridge
spanning the Trent River between Picnic Island off the east shore and Grand Road on the
west. The old line to the north was retained as a spur line to the Rathburn Mills. The
railway station was relocated to the northeast corner of Alma and Simpson Streets.7
When the Trent Canal was built it was proposed to replace the bridge span on the west
side with a bascule or lift bridge and to build a second lift bridge across the canal to
provide access to the industries on the island between the river and the canal. In the end
only the second bascule lift bridge to the island was built and it became known as the
“Low Black”.8 The Grand Trunk Railway then replaced the bridge over the waterway
with a new and stronger structure built in two phases by the Dominion Bridge Company
in 1917. The three spans over Saskatoon Avenue were finished first in 1917, and the final
eight spans over the river, canal and the west bank road were completed in 1918.9 This
railway line, as well as the Campbellford station, was closed in 1969. The bascule lift
bridge on the spur line to the island was torn down in 1972. The railway bridge on the
main line was removed in 1987.10
All that remains of the structures are piers in the Trent
River.
7 Ibid, 282.
8 Ibid, 285.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid, 285-286.
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4.1.2 Trent-Severn Canal
The approval of the Act to Improve the Navigation of the Inland Waters of the Newcastle
District was passed in 1836 with funds allotted for the construction of a canal.
Construction of the canal started in the 1840s and then little was done until the late 19th
century. The Trent Valley Canal Association was formed in 1887 and survey work began
in 1895. With a new interest in hydro-electric power, and in the interest of transportation,
the Dominion Government authorized the construction of the Trent Canal in February
1907. Construction on Section #4 from just above Glen Ross to Campbellford began in
1910. There was some controversy over the fate of the Dickson Dam near the town
bridge that provided power to five local mills and the municipal water system.11
It was
decided to build retaining walls along the river through Campbellford, and a control dam
was built south of the 1897 railway bridge to control the water level.
In 1918, the first boat from Lake Ontario, reached Orillia. The final canal extended from
Trenton on the Bay of Quinte to Port Severn on Georgian Bay. Although the Trent-
Severn Waterway was conceived as a commercial venture to move wheat from the
prairies to Lake Ontario and Montreal, by the time it was completed, grain was being
moved other ways, and the Canal never developed into the commercial enterprise but as a
recreational waterway. The canal was designated as a nationally significant canal in 1929.
4.1.3 Hydro-electric Development
Ranney Falls Generating Station
The federal government leased the Ranney Falls site to the Seymour Power Company.
When the Provincial Government bought the Seymour Power Company on March 9,
1916, it acquired the rights to the site. Unit #1 of the generating station was put in service
on August 22, 1922, Unit #2 on September 22, 1922 and Unit #3 in 1926. The Hydro-
Electric Power Commission of Ontario acquired the station from the Quinte and Trent
Valley Power Company in 1937. Ownership was transferred to Ontario Power Generation
in April 1999.
As part of the Commission's "Central Ontario System", Ranney Falls helped to supply
power to about 25 municipalities in central Ontario, including Peterborough, Kingston,
Belleville, Oshawa, Lindsay, Trenton, Cobourg, Port Hope, Bowmanville, Picton,
Deseronto, Napanee and Whitby.12
11
Ibid, 37. 12
Ontario Power Generation: Power Generation Hydroelectric Stations: Ranney Falls Generating Station.
Access; < http://www.opg.com/power/hydro/evergreen_energy/ranney_falls.asp>.
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Hague’s Reach Generating Station
The station is correctly known as "Haig's Reach", with the reach named for Thomas Haig
who farmed on Lot 8, Concession 3 of Seymour Township in 1878 on the east side of the
river at Lock 10 just below the powerhouse. Government surveyors probably changed the
name to "Hague" during the railway and canal construction era. Government authorities
and Ontario Power Generation only use “Hague”. The Hydro-Electric Power
Commission of Ontario built the generating station and opened Unit 1 at the station on
March 3, 1925, Unit 2 on March 6, 1925, and Unit 3 March 29, 1925. Ownership was
transferred to Ontario Power Generation in April 1999.13
4.2 Campbellford
Campbell’s Ford, named after Major David Campbell, was established where the Trent
River was the shallowest. A ferry service was established across the waterway and
operated until 1840. At that time a mill dam was built below the ford, and higher water
levels required the construction of a bridge just north of the dam The area on both sides
of the river in the vicinity of the bridge developed with industry, stores and hotels. Plans
for village streets and lots were laid for the east side out prior to 1846. The community of
Emilyville emerged on the west side of the river.
Major Campbell returned to Cobourg in 1852 and although he sold most of his property
on the east side of river in 1856, he forged a business relationship with Robert Cockburn
of Cobourg and Nesbitt Kirchoffer of Port Hope to develop the village emerging on Lot
10, Concession 6. Kirchoffer surveyed the east side of Campbellford into lots, roads and
streets and planned for a railway line. Subdivided lots on the roads paralleling the Trent
River were developed quickly for industrial, commercial and residential use. A
commercial core emerged on Bridge Street in the vicinity of the river crossing. On the
west side of the river in Emilyville, William Oglivie laid out the lots and streets on Lot 9,
Concession 6. He built a large stone residence on Bridge Street West c1860. Henry Roe
laid out the lots and streets on Lot 10 on the same west side.
The community grew quickly. The Seymour Township Hall, for many years the only
public building in the area, was built at 113 Front Street North in 1855. In the same year
the first wooden bridge over the Trent River was replaced by another wood bridge
structure. The Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio built a third bridge with
arches in iron in 1877. The bridge and a dam to its immediate south are shown on the
Map of Campbellford in the Illustrated Historical Atlas (1878). Two additional arches
were built in 1884.
Some of the more important and larger nineteenth century industries associated with the
development of the Campbellford community included a woolen mill operated by Samuel
13
Ibid. Hague’s Reach Generating Station. Access: < http://www.opg.com/power/hydro/evergreen_energy/
hagues_reach.asp>.
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Mirfield that became the Trent Valley Woollen Mill (1879), and then the Campbellford
Cloth Company (1921), formerly located in the Old Mill Park; the Cockburn/Charles
Smith Flour Mill (1850) built on Mill Street, now Saskatoon Avenue; and the Rathburn
Lumber Company (1886) on Front Street North.14
A spur line of the Grand Junction and
later Grand Trunk Railway connected the industry to the main line.
Campbellford was incorporated as a village in 1876, including the settlement of
Emilyville. The new village bought the Seymour Township Hall, and the two
municipalities continued to use the building for many years. The Illustrated Historical
Atlas (1878) notes Campbellford was well established with industry, churches, a town
hall and schoolhouse. Grand Street was known as River Street north to Canrobert, and
then George Street to Tice Street, now Bridge Street West, and Garry Street was a part of
the Seventh Concession Line. On the east side of the river, Doxsee Avenue South was
shown as Rear Street and Saskatoon Avenue as Mill Street. Caddy Street was a short
street extending west of Front Street North to the Trent River above Market Street. A
market square was located at the Rear Street and Market Street to the east of Front Street
North. The dam on the river was located immediately south of the bridge.
Local businessman Adam Dinwoodie built a residence at 17 Second Street, known as the
Spite House, in 1874 at the foot of Frank Street. Several other substantial residences were
built on town streets in the 1870s and 1880s including 62 (1875), 75 (1879), 85 (1870)
and 91 (1880) and 95 (1886) on Doxsee Avenue South.15
Local businessman Frederick
Dinwoodie was the original owner of the large brick residence at 95 Doxsee Street South.
By the late 1880s, several churches, a stone town hall, and a schoolhouse had been built
in the town including the Methodist Church on Queen Street in 1874, which was acquired
by the Baptist congregation in 1884. Local industry was greatly aided by the arrival of the
Grand Junction Railway in 1878. As the town continued to prosper in the latter part of the
19th
century, larger brick commercial blocks such as the Ferris Block were built on
Bridge Street and Front Street. The Trent Valley Woolen Mill and the Rathburn Lumber
Mill on Front Street North were the largest businesses in the community in the late 1890s
and early 1900s.
Campbellford’s major industries continued to operate into the early 20th century. The
Northumberland Paper and Electric Company built the Campbellford Pulp Mill near
Ranney Falls in 1911. It was destroyed by fire in 1932, and rebuilt, operating as the Gair
Mill until 1957, then passing through owners until demolished in 1971 for the Parkview
Estates development.16
The railway created an economic boom in the early 20th
century
as the town became a principal station along the line for exports. It had four passenger
train stops in a day between 1914 and 1918. The grain movement from the Lakehead
supported the railway through the town for many years (1920 to late 1950s).17
14
Crothers, op. cit, 35 and 42-44. 15
Campbellford Inventory of Historical Homes, February 1985. 16
Crothers op. cit., 42-43. 17
I bid, 285.
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A new multi-span metal truss bridge was built over the river in 1904. It was converted to
a bascule bridge on the west end at a later date to accommodate boats.18
The United
Counties of Northumberland and Durham Road Commission built the Campbellford
Bridge, an arched high level structure, in 1968-69. County engineer was R. A. Edmunds
and consulting engineers were Totten, Sims, Hubicki & Associates and general
contractors, W. D. Laflamme, Mimico, Ontario.19
During construction a pedestrian bridge
was erected and vehicles were required to cross further south on Grand Road over the
“Low Black” railway bridge. A wooden platform replaced the railway ties.20
A town hall as built on Front Street South at River Street in 1935. The Seymour
Township Hall on Front Street North moved to the Colin Collins Block on the same street
in 1966, and, in 1978, to 37 Saskatoon Avenue before relocating to a new building on
Front Street South.21
The Campbellford Cloth Company was demolished in 1979 and the
Old Mill Park was developed on the site with a commemorative plaque to the industry.
The Cockburn/Charles Smith Flour Mill on Saskatoon Avenue was demolished in 1996.
Historical maps and topographical maps are contained in Appendix A. Historical
photographs are found in Appendix B.
5.0 IDENTIFICATION OF BUILT HERITAGE & CULTURAL HERITAGE
LANDSCAPES
5.1 Introduction
For the purposes of built heritage and cultural heritage landscape identification, this
section provides a brief description of the existing environment, the principal built
heritage resources and cultural heritage landscapes potentially affected by the proposed
Trent River bridge crossing at Campbellford in the Town of Trent Hills.
5.2 Description of the Existing Environment
Campbellford is located in a drumlinized till plain known as the Peterborough Drumlin
Field. The Trent River crosses the Canadian Shield with its headwaters in an area of
Precambrian bedrock and with the lower course on the Paleozoic limestones. It drains
into the Bay of Quinte. From Rice Lake the Trent River flows northeastward for a few
kilometres before turning eastward across a limestone plain to Healey Falls. From there it
tumbles into another limestone valley and turns at a right angle to flow southward. The
Crowe River enters the Trent River in this section. Due to its topography and flow the
Trent River was developed for hydro-electric power.
18
Ibid, 40. 19
Commemorative plaque on side of bridge; MTO site number and date on bridge. 20
Crothers, 40. 21
Ibid, 17-18.
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5.2.1 Campbellford Historical Core
Campbellford is located in the Municipality of Trent Hills, Northumberland County on
the Trent River, which forms part of the Trent-Severn Waterway, a national historical
site. The crossing at Bridge Street, which connects the east and west sections of the town,
is the only structure to span the Trent River within the community. The bridge also acts
as a link for traffic between the larger centres of Peterborough and the City of Belleville
on County Road No. 30 and County Road No. 8, which runs through Campbellford.
Within Campbellford, County Road 30 is known as Grand Road. County Road No. 8
becomes Bridge Street and intersects with Grand Road on the west side of the Trent
River.
The Trent River divides the historical core of the town into the east and west sides. A
mixture of 19th and 20th century buildings including, but not limited to, residences,
institutional, religious and commercial buildings, characterizes it. Bridge Street divides
the town east to west with the historical commercial area located along its length as well
as Front Street on the east and Grand Road/Queen Street on the west side. A high level
arch bridge, constructed in 1968-69, joins the two sides.
On the west side of the Trent River, Grand Road runs north to south along the river banks
to Bridge Street where is becomes Queen Street and continues northward following the
river. The intersection of Alma Street and Grand Road has a large parking lot on the
southwest corner, a c1900 brick residence at 120 Grand Road on the northwest corner
and park on the east side of Grand Road along the river. From Alma Street to Canrobert
Street, both sides of Grand Road are characterized by a streetscape of 19th
and 20th
century residences. At Canrobert Street a senior’s community centre and a tourism
information centre are located on the east side of Grand Road. Old Mill Park, on the site
of the former Campbellford Cloth Factory, stretches from just north of Canrobert Street
to the south side of Bridge Street on the east side. A modern gazebo is situated in the park
near the bridge as well as an interpretation plaque for the Trent-Severn Waterway.
Residential streets run westward from Grand Road and Queen Streets on an angle.
An older commercial section is located at the intersection of Grand Road/Queen Street
and Bridge Street. It continues north for a short distance along Queen Street, before
changing to residential use on the west side. A public park located on the east side of
Queen Street, north of Bridge Street to Garry Street, contains a Cenotaph, which is
municipally designated under the Ontario Heritage Act, and a commemorative plaque
relating to the founding of Campbellford. At the north end of the park sited on the Trent
River is the former Baptist Church, built in 1874, now in commercial use. A parking lot
is located on the north side of the former church building. A c1885 stone residence is
located on the southwest corner of Garry Street and Queen Street and a late 19th century
brick residence and early 1900s brick residence sit on the northwest corner of the
intersection.
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To the north at the intersection of Church Street and Queen Street, the Water’s Edge Inn
is located on the east side on Queen Street on the river bank. It comprises an older
residence converted to commercial use on the top of the river bank and a separate
building with of accommodation along the edge of the river. Later 19th
century brick
residences are situated on the southwest and northwest corners of the intersection.
On the east side of the Trent River, Front Street North follows the river north of Bridge
Street East. At Market Street it begins to curve northeasterly. At this point the west side
of Front Street North is residential in character with an attractive streetscape of late 19th
and early 20th
century residences. A small gap in the streetscape comprising vacant land
between 106 and 110, is the right-of-way for Caddy Street. There is a clear view of the
west bank from the right-of-way. The southeast side of Front Street North at Market
Street is the site of a grocery store and parking lot, while a former residence at 97 Front
Street North on the northeast corner was converted to an insurance office. North of
Market Street, both sides of Front Street North to Doxsee Avenue North are generally
residential. The Campbellford/ Seymour Township Heritage Centre is located at 113
Front Street North.
South of Bridge Street East, Front Street South runs southeast on a diagonal to Second
Street, the southernmost east-west street of Campbellford on the east side of the river.
River Street runs east to west, south of Bridge Street East. Saskatoon Avenue branches
off from Front Street South at River Street and follows the river southward to Second
Street and then out of the core area, past Picnic Park and Kennedy Park, to Trent Drive.
The former municipal office is located on Front Street South at the convergence of Frank
Street and Saskatoon Street at River Street. The historic Fire Hall, which is municipally
designated under the Ontario Heritage Act, is located at 58 Saskatoon Avenue. A c1875
stone residence at 37 Saskatoon Avenue is municipally designated under the Ontario
Heritage Act. It is the last remnant of an historic Mill Block that once stood in this
location. It also served as the township hall for a few years. Frank Street is a residential
street that ends at Second Street. Saskatoon Avenue has a streetscape of mainly 20th
century residences from just north of Second Street south to Picnic Island Park.
Frank Street, Front Street South and Doxsee Avenue South to the south of River Street
consist of mixed 19th and 20
th century residential streetscapes. All three streets terminate
at Second Street. Doxsee Street South has a number of larger 19th
century brick homes.
Second Street forms a residential streetscape with the intersections at Frank Street, Front
Street South and Doxsee Avenue South characterized by the side yards of corner lots
facing onto the intersecting streets.
There are a number of important viewsheds from both the west and east banks of the
Trent River. Approaching Campbellford along Grand Road on the west side there is an
open view northeast across open parkland to the river and the former railway bridge piers
located in the river, as well as a view to the commercial and residential properties on the
east bank and the present Campbellford Bridge. This view is also found in the park and
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along the river trail. From Old Mill Park and the Campbellford Bridge there are several
view points up and down the Trent River and across to the east bank. The tower of the
Fire Hall at 58 Saskatoon Avenue on the east bank is clearly visible from Old Mill Park.
Another important viewshed along the Trent River to the Campbellford Bridge and its
environs is southward from Garry Street at Queen Street across the park to the cenotaph
and then to the existing bridge and the historical area of Campbellford on the east bank.
The late 19th and early 20
th century commercial blocks located at the intersection of
Grand Road and Bridge Street West, namely 15-25 Bridge Street West and 18 Bridge
Street West, have landmark qualities as corner buildings on an important intersection in
Campbellford and as entrance/exit markers or gateways to the bridge and town. The
commercial block at 4-12 Bridge Street West has landmark qualities due to its unusual
siting on the northwest corner of the bridge and as viewed from the east bank. The
commercial buildings at 2 Front Street North and 4-8 Front Street South have landmark
qualities as large corner buildings anchoring the commercial streetscape and marking the
entrance/exit function at the bridge.
5.2.2 Outside Campbellford Historical Core
Highway 30 on the west side of the Trent River is characterized by scattered residences
and farms around Meyers Island Road. The Meyers Island Road, a local gravel road with
tree lines, provides access to Meyers Island. It becomes a one lane bridge when crossing
the Trent River to Meyers Island. Seasonal and year round residences, mostly later 20th
century, line the east side of the island along the Trent Canal. To the north of Meyers
Island Road on the east side of County Road 30 is the Seymour Conservation Area of the
Lower Trent Conservation Authority, a natural area with recreational trails. The 5th Line
is an opened right-of-way on the east side of County Road 30. The Campbellford
Business Park is located north of the conservation area. Industrial Drive leads to a road
that provides access to the Ontario Power Generation station at Hague’s Reach.
On the east side of the Trent River, Haig’s Reach Road runs along the banks of the Trent
Canal south of 4th
Line. 20th century seasonal cottages and permanent residences
characterize the road. Lock 10 at Hague’s Reach, Trent-Severn Waterway, is accessed
from this road. Bradley Road runs westerly from County Road 8 to James Road, which is
part of the right-of-way for the 3rd
Line. James Road is not a through road to Haig’s
Reach Road. Between the 3rd
and 4th Lines and Haig’s Reach Road and County Road 8
the rural landscape is characterized agricultural land, tree lots and distinctive field
patterns. A section of 4th
Line, a two lane rural gravel road, runs west from County Road
8 to Haig’s Reach Road and then to the Trent River where it ends. At the end of the road
at the Trent Canal there is a view of Hague’s Reach Generating Station across the
waterway. There is a 19th century residence, farm complex and abandoned house on 4
th
Line east of Haig’s Reach Road and a couple of modern residences to the west. North of
the 4th
line the landscape is characterized by agricultural field patterns and some woodlots
to the southern boundary of Ferris Provincial Park, Ferris Provincial Park, which is
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accessed County Road 8, includes former agricultural land with remnants of overgrown
stone fences and cleared meadows.
5.3 Description of Identified Built Heritage Resources and Cultural Heritage
Landscapes
Unterman McPhail Associates undertook windshield surveys of the proposed bridge
alternatives in October 2008 and January 2009. This identification of built heritage
resources and cultural heritage landscapes addressed the requirement to identify all
above-ground, person-made heritage resources recognized as being over 40 years of age
or older, and those recognized by the municipality as being of heritage value. It is
acknowledged that the identified built heritage and cultural heritage landscapes within the
study area are of varying degrees of heritage interest or value. Although the exterior of a
built heritage resource may be altered, it still contributes to the character and context of
the streetscape.
The core area of the community of Campbellford has been identified as an historical
settlement and therefore considered to be a stand-alone cultural heritage landscape
(CHL). It is considered to be a “continuing landscape” in that it has maintained its
historical use while evolving. The core area comprises other smaller cultural heritage
landscapes within it such as streetscapes. The streetscapes comprise individual built
heritage buildings and structures of forty years of age and older. Although the Town of
Trent Hills has designated some properties within Campbellford under Part IV the
Ontario Heritage Act, it does not include “listed” buildings of heritage interest or value
on a municipal heritage register.
Within or adjacent to the twelve (12) proposed bridge alternatives for the Trent River
Bridge Crossing there are six (6) properties designated under the Ontario Heritage Act
(OHA). They are noted in Tables 1 to 12.
There are numerous individual built heritage resources, worthy of consideration for
“listing” on a municipal heritage register, within and adjacent to the proposed bridge
crossing alignments. They contribute to the character of the historical core area, town
streetscapes and river views.
Survey work included mapping and a photograph of those buildings within the alignment
as well as adjacent buildings of heritage interest for the twelve (12) proposed bridge
alternatives for the Trent River Bridge Crossing (Figure 2 and 3). As part of the
identification of cultural heritage landscapes located in the historical core of
Campbellford, i.e., streetscapes, photographs of representative buildings are included in
Tables 5 to 12 to provide a sense of place. Therefore, all built heritage resources
associated with the streetscapes are not depicted in the Tables. Streetscapes adjacent to
the proposed bridge alternatives were also noted because there is potential for change to
streetscapes and traffic patterns associated with a new bridge structure. Since the
likelihood of improvements to existing rural roads associated with the proposed bridge
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alternatives outside of Campbellford is considered to be high, these roadscapes have been
noted. Likewise. All built heritage resources noted as being displaced by AECOM
Canada Ltd. due to a proposed bridge alternative for the Trent River Bridge Crossing
were photographed. Twentieth century topographical maps of Campbellford and area
were consulted and are contained in Appendix A.
Tables 1 to 12 list those built heritage and cultural heritage landscapes of forty years and
older identified as being of some local heritage value or interest during the windshield
surveys of the study area. Tables 1 to 4 contain the results of the built heritage resource
and cultural heritage landscape survey for the four (4) proposed bridge alternatives for
the Trent River Bridge Crossing outside the historical core of Campbellford, namely
Meyers Island Road/James Road/Bradley Road, 4th
Line and 5th
Line. Tables 1 to 4 are
arranged generally from west to east.
Tables 5 to12 contain the results of the built heritage resource and cultural heritage
landscape survey for the eight (8) proposed Bridge Alternatives for the Trent River
Bridge Crossing within the historical core of Campbellford, namely, Alma Street/Doxsee
Avenue South, Alma Street/Second Street, Canrobert Street, Bridge Street, Garry
Street/Market Street and Church Street/Market Street. Tables 5 to 12 are arranged
generally by municipal street number general, south to north and west to east.
All photographs in the following Tables were taken by Unterman McPhail Associates
unless otherwise noted.
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Figure 2: Alternate Southerly Bridge Crossing Alignments of Trent River, Campbellford [TSH June 2008].
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TABLE 1: MEYERS ISLAND ROAD/JAMES ROAD TO BRADLEY ROAD TO CR8—IDENTIFIED CULTURAL
HERITAGE LANDSCAPES AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
1. CHL Roadscape Meyers Island Road Two lane, rural gravel road with
some tree lines; scenic view as road
curves to the one lane Holiday
Bridge approaching from the west.
Within Alignment
2. CHL Waterscape Trent River west of
Meyers Island
The Trent River is a dominant
physical and visual element in the
landscape and is associated with the
historical development of this area
In this location it is spanned by one
lane, three span concrete beam
bridge with metal railings at the
west entrance to Meyers Island. The
bridge has a commemorative plaque
indicating the Northumberland
Summer Resorts and the Township
of Seymour built it in 1970.
Within Alignment
3. CHL Waterscape Trent Canal east of
Meyers Island
The Trent Canal is a man-made
navigation canal built in early 20th
century. It is a dominant physical
and visual element in the landscape.
Trent-Severn Canal is a national
historic site and is maintained
and operated by Parks Canada, a
federal government agency.
Within Alignment
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TABLE 1: MEYERS ISLAND ROAD/JAMES ROAD TO BRADLEY ROAD TO CR8—IDENTIFIED CULTURAL
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(continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
4. BHR Residence 456 Haig’s Reach
Road
Cottage/residence, 20th
century,
altered.
Adjacent
5. CHL Roadscape Haig’s Reach Road Two lane rural gravel road
following the east bank of the Trent
Canal.
Adjacent See above photograph.
6. CHL Roadscape James Road/Bradley
Road
Two lane rural road. Within Alignment
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TABLE 2: 4TH
LINE—IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES
WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
1. CHL Waterscape Trent River Trent River is a dominant physical
and visual element in the landscape
and is associated with the historical
development of the area.
Within Alignment No access to location.
2. CHL CHL Hague’s Reach
Generating Station
Hydro-electric generating station
and associated waterway to the
south.
Within Alignment
3. CHL Waterscape Trent Canal The Trent Canal is a man-made
navigation canal built in early 20th
century. It is a dominant physical
and visual element in the landscape.
Trent-Severn Canal is a national
historic site and is maintained
and operated by Parks Canada, a
federal government agency.
Within Alignment
4. CHL Roadscape 4
th Line Two lane rural gravel road. Within Alignment
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TABLE 2: 4TH
LINE—IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES
WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
5. CHL Farmscape 1040 4th
Line Consists of a vernacular 19th
century 1 storey, gable roof brick
farmhouse with pointed arch
window in centre gable, and paired
window openings on front
elevation; vergeboard, gable barn,
agricultural buildings, set back
from 4th
Line.
Adjacent
6. BHR Residence 1053 5
th Line Abandoned frame residence set
back from road.
Adjacent
7. BHR Residence 1084 4
th Line Vernacular 19
th century, 1 storey,
brick residence with a centre gable
roof.
Adjacent
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TABLE 3: 5TH
LINE #1—IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES
WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
1. CHL Waterscape Trent River Trent River is a dominant physical
and visual element in the landscape
and is associated with the Trent-
Severn Waterway and hydro-
electric development in this area.
Trent-Severn Canal is a national
historic site and is maintained
and operated by Parks Canada, a
federal government department.
Within Alignment No access to location.
2. CHL Recreational Ferris Provincial
Park
Situated on hilly drumlins east side
of Trent River. includes former
agricultural land with remnants of
overgrown stone fences and cleared
meadows.
Within Alignment No access to location.
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LINE 1A—IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES AND BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES
WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
1. CHL Waterscape Trent Canal Trent River is a dominant physical
and visual element in the landscape
and is associated with the Trent-
Severn Waterway and historical
development of area.
Trent-Severn Canal is a national
historic site and is maintained
and operated by Parks Canada, a
federal government agency.
Within alignment No access to location.
2. CHL Agricultural
land
South edge of Ferris
Provincial Park
Evidence of field patterns and tree
lines.
Within alignment No access to location.
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Figure 3: Additional Trent River Bridge Crossings within historic core of Campbellford [TSH, November 12, 2008].
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TABLE 5: ALMA/DOXSEE AVENUE SOUTH—IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES AND BUILT
HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
1. CHL Streetscape Alma Street Residential streetscape of late 19th
/early 20th
century houses on north
side from 120 Grand Road to west
of Pellissier Street.
Within Alignment
2. BHR Residence 120 Grand Road 2-storey brick residence, with a
metal clad, hip roof and roof
brackets, built c1900. The building
formerly housed the Orange Hall.
Adjacent
3. CHL Former
Railway Line Trent Canal and Park
on Grand Road
The piers of the former CNR bridge
(1918) are located in the Trent
River; a commemorative plaque for
the former railway is located in the
waterside park on the west side of
the Trent River.
Adjacent
Viewshed east along Trent River.
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TABLE 5: ALMA/DOXSEE AVENUE SOUTH—IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES AND BUILT
HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
4. CHL Waterscape Trent River Trent River is a dominant physical
and visual element in the landscape
and is associated with the Trent-
Severn Waterway and historical
development of area. It bisects
Campbellford.
The Trent-Severn Canal is a
national historic site and is
maintained and operated by
Parks Canada, a federal
government agency.
Within Alignment
Viewshed north along Trent River.
5. BHR Residence 128 Saskatoon
Avenue
20th
century cottage style, one
storey residence with front gable
roof; undergoing renovations.
Adjacent
6. BHR Residence 135 Saskatoon
Avenue
20th
century residence, 1 storeys
with cross gable roof; much altered.
Adjacent
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HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
7. BHR Residence 61 Second Avenue Early 20th
century 1 storey frame
residence with front gable roof,
decorative features includes front
gable vergeboard framing two 2nd
floor windows, side bay/oriel
window. Similar to 65 Doxsee
Avenue South.
Within Alignment
8. BHR Residence 65 Second Avenue Early 20th
century 1 storey frame
residence with front gable roof,
decorative features includes front
gable vergeboard framing two 2nd
floor windows, side bay/oriel
window. Similar to 61 Doxsee
Avenue South s.
Within Alignment
9. CHL Streetscape Doxsee Avenue
South
Residential streetscape with a wide
street, green verge on east side,
sidewalks, some trees and mixture
of 1 to 2-storey, 19th
/early 20th
century residences from Second
Street northward. Residences at 95
and 96 mark the entrance at Second
Street. 95 Doxsee Avenue South,
the Frederick Dinwoodie House
built in 1886, is municipally
designated under the OHA. 96.
Adjacent
95 Doxsee Avenue South
96 Doxsee Avenue South
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TABLE 6: ALMA STREET/SECOND STREET—IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES AND BUILT
HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
1. CHL Streetscape Alma Street Residential streetscape of late 19th
/early 20th
century houses on north
side from 120 Grand Road to west
of Pellissier Street.
Within Alignment
2. BHR Residence 120 Grand Road 2-storey brick residence, with a
metal clad, hip roof and roof
brackets, built c1900. The building
formerly housed the Orange Hall.
Within Alignment
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HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
3. CHL Former
Railway Line
Trent River and Park
on Grand Road
The piers of the former CNR bridge
(1918) are located in the Trent
River. A commemorative plaque
for the former railway is located in
the waterside park on the west side
of the Trent Canal.
Adjacent
Viewshed north along Trent River.
4. BHR Residence 116 Grand Road 19th
century, 1 storey red brick
residence with centre gable roof,
decorative finial.
Adjacent
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HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
5. CHL Waterscape Trent River Trent River is a dominant physical
and visual element in the landscape
and is associated with the Trent-
Severn Waterway and historical
development of area. It bisects
Campbellford. The Trent-Severn
Canal is a national historic site
and is maintained and operated
by Parks Canada, a federal
government agency.
Within Alignment
View east across Trent River to
Second Street.
6. . CHL Streetscape Saskatoon Avenue Saskatoon Street is residential in
character at Second Street with a
mixture of late 19th
century and
early to mid 20th
century houses,
sidewalks and grassy verges to the
north and south.
Adjacent
No. 109 Saskatoon Avenue on
southeast corner of Second Street.
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HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
7. CHL Streetscape Frank Street at
Second Street.
Frank Street is lined with large later
20th
century residences, sidewalks,
grassy verges and a canopy of
mature deciduous trees. Residences
at 93 and 94 face onto Frank Street
with side lawns on Second Street.
The municipally designated
building at 17 Second Street, which
is located at the foot of Frank
Street, forms the end point of the
southward streetscape view.
Adjacent
Front St. with Spite House at foot.
93 Frank St. at Second St.
94 Frank St. at Second Street
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HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
8. CHL Streetscape Second Street Second Street is residential in
character with mature trees,
sidewalks and grassy verges and
mature trees. On the south side 17
Second Street (Spite House) built
by the Dinwoodie Brothers in 1874
sits at the foot of Frank Street. It
this 1 storey red brick residence
with Gothic style detailing. On the
north side a 20th
century bungalow
stands at 4 Second Street. At the
intersection of Frank Street, the side
yards of two large brick residences
located at 93 and 95 Frank Street,
which extend to Front Street South,
contribute to the residential
character of the streetscape. On the
northeast corner of Second Street
and Front Street South stands 42
Second Street, a late 19th
/early 20th
C, 2-storey frame residence. On the
north and south sides between Front
Street South and Doxsee Avenue
South there are a few late 19th
/early
20th
century residences of heritage
interest, including 61 and 65, early
20th
century frame houses of a
similar design. 17 Second Street is
municipally designated under the
OHA.
Within Alignment.
4 Second Street
17 Second Street (Spite House)
42 Second Street
61 Second Street
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TABLE 7: CANROBERT STREET/RIVER STREET #1—IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES AND
BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
1. . BHR Former
Residence
60 Grand Road at
intersection with
Canrobert Street,
southwest corner.
Emilyville Inn, 2-storey frame
residence with a hip roof and gable
dormers.
Adjacent
2. BHR Residence 44 Canrobert Street Circa 1900, 1 storey, frame
residence with front gable roof.
Adjacent
3. BHR Residence 40-42 Canrobert
Street
Late 19th
century, 2-storey brick
residence, double, with hip roof and
front gable dormer.
Adjacent
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BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
4. BHR Residence 36 Canrobert Street Circa 1900, 2-storey brick
residence with truncated hip roof,
double and triple window sash,
front entry verandah.
Adjacent
5. BHR Residence 30 Canrobert Street Circa 1900, 1 storey, front gable
residence.
Adjacent
6. CHL Waterscape Trent River Trent River is a dominant physical
and visual element in the landscape
and is associated with the Trent-
Severn Waterway and historical
development of area. It bisects
Campbellford. The Trent-Severn
Canal is a national historic site
and is maintained and operated
by Parks Canada, a federal
government agency.
Within Alignment
View southeast across river to Fire
Hall, 58 Saskatoon Avenue.
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BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
7. BHR Public 58 Saskatoon
Avenue
Fire Hall and site of Water Works
and Electric Light Station, built in
1889. Red brick structure with
limestone sills, segmental window
openings, hose-drying tower on
southeast corner. Property is
municipally designated under the
Ontario Heritage Act (OHA).
Within Alignment
8. BHR Public 36 Front Street
South.
Former Town Hall built in 1935.
Located on a prominent site at head
of Saskatoon Avenue and Frank
Street at River Street.
Adjacent
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BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
9. BHR Former
Residence
60 Grand Road at
intersection with
Canrobert Street,
southwest corner.
Emilyville Inn, 2-storey frame
residence with a hip roof and gable
dormers.
Adjacent
10. BHR Residence 44 Canrobert Street Circa 1900, 1 storey, frame
residence with front gable roof.
Adjacent
11. BHR Residence 40-42 Canrobert
Street
Late 19th
century, 2-storey brick
residence, double, with hip roof and
front gable dormer.
Adjacent
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BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
12. BHR Residence 36 Canrobert Street Circa 1900, 2-storey brick
residence with truncated hip roof,
double and triple window sash,
front entry verandah.
Adjacent
13. BHR Residence 30 Canrobert Street C1900 1 storey frame residence
with front gable roof.
Adjacent
14. CHL Waterscape Trent River Trent River is a dominant physical
and visual element in the landscape
and is associated with the Trent-
Severn Waterway and historical
development of area. It bisects
Campbellford. The Trent-Severn
Canal is a national historic site
and is maintained and operated
by Parks Canada, a federal
government agency.
Within Alignment
View southeast across river to Fire
Hall, 58 Saskatoon Avenue.
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BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
15. BHR Institutional 58 Saskatoon
Avenue
Fire Hall and site of Water Works
and Electric Light Station, built in
1889. Red brick structure with
limestone sills, segmental window
openings, hose-drying tower on
southeast corner. Property is
municipally designated under the
Ontario Heritage Act (OHA).
Adjacent
16. BHR Former
Residence
37 Saskatoon
Avenue
Now commercial in use, this stone
residence, 1 storeys, built c1875
when it formed part of the Mill
block. Owned in 1880s by Charles
Smith owner of flour mill across
road on river. Served as the
Seymour Township Hall for a short
time. Property is municipally
designated under the Ontario
Heritage Act (OHA).
Adjacent
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HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
1. CHL Streetscape Bridge Street West Late 19th
and early 20th
century
commercial buildings, 2 and 3-
storeys and Campbellford Bridge.
Within Alignment
View east to existing bridge.
2. BHR Former
Residence
34 Bridge Street
West
Stone residence built c1860 for
William Oglivie, now Branch 103
Royal Canadian Legion.
Adjacent
3. BHR Former
Residence
28 Bridge Street
West
Late 19th
century, 2-storey brick
house with hip roof, eave brackets,
front verandah.
Adjacent
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HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
4. BHR Commercial 18 Bridge Street
West
Late 19th
century or early 20th
century, 3-storey brick commercial
block, landmark building on
northwest corner of intersection at
Grand Road and Bridge Street
West.
Within Alignment
5. CHL Streetscape 15-25 Bridge Street
West
Row of late 19th
century two storey
brick commercial buildings,
landmark building on northwest
corner of intersection at Grand
Road and Bridge Street West.
Within Alignment
6. CHL Streetscape 4A, 6A, 8, 12 and
end building
Late 19th
century, brick commercial
block, with a 3-storey building on
the northeast corner of intersection
at Grand Road and Bridge Street
West and three, 2-storey buildings
to east.
Within Alignment
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HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
7. CHL Old Mill
Park
Southeast corner of
Bridge Street and
Grand Road.
Parkland located on the site of the
former Campbellford Cloth
Factory. Commemorative plaque
for History of Trent Valley
Woollen and Campbellford Cloth
Company and interpretation plaque
for the Trent-Severn Canal located
in park.
Adjacent
8. BHR Bridge Bridge Street over
Trent River.
Campbellford Bridge, a multi-span,
arch, high level bridge structure,
was built over the Trent River in
1968-69 (MTO Site No. 27-71).
Several bridges have been built at
this location from the 1840s
onwards.
Within Alignment
Bridge plaque.
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HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
9. CHL Waterscape Trent River Trent River is a dominant physical
and visual element in the landscape
and is associated with the Trent-
Severn Waterway and historical
development of area. It bisects
Campbellford. The Trent-Severn
Canal is a national historic site
and is maintained and operated
by Parks Canada, a federal
government agency.
Within Alignment
View to east at bridge.
10. CHL Streetscape Bridge Street East
at
Front Street North
and South
Late 19th
and early 20th
century
brick commercial buildings of 2
and 3-storeys with 4-8 Front Street
South serving as visible landmark
building at the intersection of
Bridge Street East and Front Street
South and from the west side of the
river.
Within Alignment
View along Bridge Street East to
Front Street intersection and
bridge.
View across Trent River to 4-8
Front Street South.
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HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
11. BHR Commercial
Building
2 Front Street North 19th
century, 3-storey brick
commercial.
Adjacent
12. BHR Commercial
Building
4-8 Front Street
South
Ferris Block, 19th
century, three
storey brick commercial block.
Within Alignment
13. BHR Commercial
Building
39 Front Street South Frogs Whiskers Ink & Kerr's
Corner Books, 20th
century
construction date unknown,
commercial block on the southeast
corner of Bridge Street East and
Front Street.
Within Alignment
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BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
1. CHL Streetscape Bridge Street West Late 19th
/early 20th
century, brick
commercial buildings of 2 and 3-
storeys with 18, 12 and 15 serving
as visible landmark buildings at the
intersection of Grand Road/Queen
Street and Bridge Street East.
Within Alignment
View east to existing bridge.
2. BHR Former
Residence
34 Bridge Street
West
Stone residence built c1860 for
William Oglivie, now Branch 103
Royal Canadian Legion.
Adjacent
3. BHR Former
Residence
28 Bridge Street
West
Late 19th
century, 2-storey brick
house with hip roof, eave brackets,
front verandah.
Adjacent
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BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
4. BHR Commercial 18 Bridge Street
West
Late 19th
century, 3 storey brick
commercial block, landmark
building on northwest corner of
intersection at Grand Road and
Bridge Street West.
Within Alignment
5. CHL Streetscape 15-25 Bridge Street
West
Row of late 19th
C, 2-storey brick
commercial buildings, landmark
building on northwest corner of
intersection at Grand Road and
Bridge Street West.
Within Alignment
6. CHL Streetscape 4A, 6A, 8, 12 and
end building
Late 19th
century, brick commercial
block, with a 3 storey building on
the northeast corner of intersection
at Grand Road and Bridge Street
West and three, 2-storey buildings
to east.
Within Alignment
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BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
7. CHL Old Mill
Park
Parkland located on the site of the
former Campbellford Cloth
Factory. Commemorative plaque
for History of Trent Valley
Woollen and Campbellford Cloth
Company and interpretation plaque
for the Trent-Severn Canal located
in park.
Adjacent
8. BHR Bridge Bridge Street over
Trent Canal/Trent
River.
Campbellford Bridge, a multi-span,
arch, high level bridge structure
was built in 1968-69 (MTO Site
No. 27-71). Several bridges have
been built at this location from the
1840s onwards.
Within Alignment
Bridge plaque.
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BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
9. CHL Waterscape Trent River Trent River is a dominant physical
and visual element in the landscape
and is associated with the Trent-
Severn Waterway and historical
development of area. It bisects
Campbellford. The Trent-Severn
Canal is a national historic site
and is maintained and operated
by Parks Canada, a federal
government agency.
Within Alignment
View east at existing bridge.
10. CHL Streetscape Bridge Street East
& Front Street North
and South
Late 19th
and early 20th
century
brick commercial buildings of 2
and 3-storeys with 2 Front Street
North serving as visible landmark
buildings at the intersection Bridge
Street East and Front Street and
from the west side of the river.
Within Alignment
View along Bridge Street East to
Front Street intersection and
bridge.
View across Trent River to 2 Front
Street South
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BUILT HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
11. BHR Commercial
Building
2 Front Street North 19th
century, three storey brick
commercial.
Adjacent
12. BHR Commercial
Building
4-8 Front Street
South
Ferris Block, 19th
century, three
storey brick commercial block.
Adjacent
13. BHR Commercial
Building
39 Front Street South Frogs Whiskers Ink & Kerr's
Corner Books 20th
century
construction date unknown,
commercial block on the southeast
corner of Bridge Street East and
Front Street.
Within Alignment
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HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
1. BHR Former
Church
67 Queen Street Originally built on the west bank of
the Trent River in 1874 for the
Methodist Episcopal Church, this
dichromatic brick, front gable
building was acquired by the
Baptist Church in 1884. A steeple
has been removed. It was vacated in
1995 and sold in 1996. It is
presently the Thrift Shop.
Within Alignment
2. BHR Residence 62 Queen Street Stone residence built 1885, 2
storeys, gable front, wrap-around
verandah
Adjacent
3. BHR Residence 88 Queen Street Early 20th
century 2-storey brick
residence with hip roof.
Adjacent
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HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
4. BHR Residence 94 Queen Street Late 1890s/c1900, 2-storey brick
residence with hip roof and cross
gable roof.
Adjacent
.
5. BHR Residence 103 Queen Street Circa 1900, 1 storey frame
residence with cross side gable
roof.
Adjacent
6. CHL Waterscape Trent River Trent River is a dominant physical
and visual element in the landscape
and bisects Campbellford. The
Trent-Severn Canal is a national
historic site and is maintained
and operated by Parks Canada, a
federal government agency.
Within Alignment
7. CHL Park Queen Street Cenotaph and open parkland on the
west side of the Trent Canal/Trent
River. Cenotaph is municipally
designated under the OHA.
Adjacent
.
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TABLE 11: GARRY STREET/MARKET STREET —IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES AND BUILT
HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)_
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
8. BHR Residence 88 Front Street North Late 19th
century, 2-storey brick
residence with front gable, altered.
Within Alignment
9. BHR Residence 92 Front Street North Late 19th
century, 2-storey, brick
residence with hip roof with eaves
brackets and cornice, similar in
design to 100 and 102 Front Street
North.
Within Alignment
10. BHR Residence 96 Front Street North Late 19th
century, 2-storey brick
residence with hip roof with eaves
brackets.
Within Alignment
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TABLE 11: GARRY STREET/MARKET STREET —IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES AND BUILT
HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
11. BHR Former
Residence
97 Front Street North Now in commercial use, this 19th
century, 1 storey former residence
is clad in modern siding with a
verandah on Market Street, altered.
Now office of Allen Insurance
Group.
Within Alignment
[Source: AECOM Canada Ltd.]
12. BHR Residence 100 Front Street
North
Late 19th
century, 2-storey brick
residence with a hip roof, paired
eaves brackets, triangular window
labels, bellcast porch roof, similar
in design to 92 and 102 Front Street
North.
Adjacent
13. CHL Streetscape Front Street West side if Front Street North
from 88 to 110. Mixture of 19th
and
early 20th
century residences,
generally brick, 2-storey, forming a
pleasing streetscape, backyards
located on Trent River.
Within Alignment
View of west side of on Front
Street north.
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TABLE 12: CHURCH STREET/MARKET STREET—IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES AND BUILT
HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
14. BHR Residence 158 Queen Street Later 19th
century, 2-storey brick
residence with cross gable roof,
vergeboard and bay window.
Adjacent
15. BHR Residence 166 Queen Street Later 19th
century, 1 storey brick
residence with mansard roof.
Adjacent
16. BHR Commercial 149 Queen Street Waters Edge Inn, north units on
water front with older converted
residence on upper bank.
Within Alignment
Inn building on water’s edge.
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TABLE 12: CHURCH STREET/MARKET STREET—IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES AND BUILT
HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
17. CHL Waterscape Trent River Trent River is a dominant physical
and visual element in the landscape
and is associated with the Trent-
Severn Waterway and historical
development of area. It bisects
Campbellford. The Trent-Severn
Canal is a national historic site
and is maintained and operated
by Parks Canada, a federal
government agency.
Within Alignment
View across the Trent River to
Waters Edge Inn.
18. BHR Residence 97 Front Street North 19th
century, 1 storey residence
clad in modern siding with a
verandah on Market Street, altered.
Now office of Allen Insurance
Group.
Within Alignment
[Source: AECOM Canada Ltd.]
19. BHR Residence 102 Front Street
North
Late 19th
century, 2-storey brick
residence with hip roof, cornice and
eaves brackets, similar to 92 and
100 Front Street North.
Adjacent
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TABLE 12: CHURCH STREET/MARKET STREET—IDENTIFIED CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPES AND BUILT
HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
20. BHR Residence 105 Front Street
North
Circa 1900, 1 storey front gable
residence.
Within Alignment
21. BHR Residence 106 Front Street
North
Late 19th
century, 1 storey, front
gable residence clad in stucco,
altered.
Within Alignment.
22. BHR Residence 110 Front Street
North
Later 19th
century, 2-storey, brick
residence with a hip roof.
Adjacent
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HERITAGE RESOURCES WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE ALIGNMENT (continued)
Site
No. Resource
Type Category Location Description Within or Adjacent to
Alignment
Photograph
23. BHR Former
Residence
113 Front Street
North
Built in 1855, 1 storey, stone
building with front gable and return
eaves, 6/6 window lights. on as the
Seymour Township hall; housed the
Campbellford PUC in 1933 and
became the Campbellford/ Seymour
Heritage Centre in 1989.
Adjacent
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6.0 POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF UNDERTAKING ON CULTURAL
HERITAGE RESOURCES
This section provides a preliminary assessment of the potential adverse effects of the
proposed undertaking based upon mapping provided by AECOM Canada Ltd. (Figures 2
and 3). The conservation of cultural heritage resources in planning is considered to be a
matter of public interest.
6.1 Description of Potential Impacts
Generally infrastructure improvements such as road and intersection improvements have
the potential to adversely affect cultural heritage landscapes and built heritage resources
by displacement and/or disruption effects during, as well as after construction. Built
heritage resources and/or cultural heritage landscapes may experience displacement, i.e.,
removal or demolition, if they are located within the rights-of-way of the undertaking.
There may also be potential for disruption, or indirect impacts, to cultural heritage
resources by the introduction of physical, visual, audible or atmospheric elements to the
existing environment that are not in keeping with their character and/or setting.
6.2 Assessment of Potential Impacts
This built heritage resource and cultural heritage landscape assessment comprises the
evaluation of the alternatives for the proposed Bridge Alternatives for the Trent River
Bridge Crossing in the Town of Trent Hills.
The proposed new bridge crossing of the Trent River will change the character and
setting of the historic core of the town of Campbellford and the Trent River, both
identified cultural heritage landscapes. The undertaking has the potential to displace, and
to disrupt identified cultural heritage landscapes and built heritage resources of heritage
value and significance.
6.2.1 Disruption Impacts
The core area of the historical town of Campbellford, which is an identified cultural
heritage landscape, will be affected by the construction of a new bridge crossing of the
Trent River. Within this larger landscape there are more discrete cultural heritage
landscapes such as streetscapes, waterscapes, etc. Individual built heritage resources are
elements of the landscapes as well as stand-alone resources of cultural heritage value.
There is potential for the character of the existing setting of cultural heritage landscapes
and built heritage resources to be disrupted in varying degrees by the construction of a
new bridge within the historical core of Campbellford. Low to medium disruption effects
are principally due to changes to the setting and character of cultural heritage landscapes
without the loss of property and resources and possibly minimal property acquisition.
High disruption impacts are a result of changes to the setting and character of cultural
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heritage landscapes and built heritage resources as a result of the loss of cultural heritage
resources, i.e., the removal or displacement. This high disruption effect may occur due to
significant property acquisitions, encroachment, road closure, improvements to local
roads associated with the new bridge crossing, the isolation of a cultural heritage resource
from its existing setting, and visual disruption due to the introduction of a new physical
element into the existing environment such as a bridge structure, embankments and new
roadways.
The crossing of the Trent River/Trent Severn Waterway is a common cultural heritage
resource for all twelve (12) proposed bridge alternatives. Outside of the historical core of
Campbellford the introduction of a new bridge structure is considered to be a medium
disruption impact, while within the historic core it is considered to be a high visual
disruption impact.
The CHL and BHR numbers listed below refer to the site numbers contained in Tables 1
to 12.
Outside the Historic Core
1) Meyers Island Road/James Road to Bradley Road to CR8— Potential High Disruption
Impacts
Two (2) potential high disruption effects to cultural heritage resources were identified
based on the mapping provided by AECOM Canada Ltd.
Resource Type Location Impact
CHL (1) Roadscape Meyers Island Road Disruption
CHL (6) Roadscape James Road/Bradley Road Disruption
2) 4th Line— Potential High Disruption Impacts
Two (2) potential high disruption effects to cultural heritage resources were identified
based on the mapping provided by AECOM Canada Ltd.
Resource Type Location Impact
CHL (4) Roadscape 4th
Line Disruption
BHR (7) Residence 1084 4th
Line Disruption
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3) 5th Line 1— Potential High Disruption Impacts
One (1) potential high disruption effect to surveyed cultural heritage resources were
identified based on the mapping provided by AECOM Canada Ltd.
Resource Type Location Impact
CHL (2) Recreational Ferris Provincial Park Disruption
4) 5th Line 1A— Potential High Disruption Impacts
One (1) potential high disruption effect to cultural heritage resources were identified
based on the mapping provided by AECOM Canada Ltd.
Resource Type Location Impact
CHL (2) Agricultural land South boundary of Ferris Provincial Park Disruption
Within the Historic Core
5) Alma Street/Doxsee Avenue South— Potential High Disruption Impacts
Four (4) potential high disruption effects to of cultural heritage resources were identified
based on the mapping provided by AECOM Canada Ltd.
Resource Type Location Impact
CHL (1) Streetscape Alma Street, including 120 Grand Road
(BHR 2)
Disruption
CHL (3) Former Railway Trent River (Bridge Piers) Disruption
CHL (4) Waterscape Trent River, part of Trent-Severn
Waterway, National Historical Site.
Disruption
CHL (9) Streetscape Doxsee Avenue South, including the
residence at 95 Doxsee Avenue South,
which is municipally designated under
OHA.
Disruption
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6) Alma Street/Second Street— Potential High Disruption Impacts
Seven (7) potential high disruption effects to of cultural heritage resources based were
identified on the mapping and property acquisition information provided by AECOM
Canada Ltd.
Resource Type Location Impact
CHL (1) Streetscape Alma Street west of Grand Road. Disruption
CHL (3) Former Railway Trent River (Bridge Piers) Disruption
BHR (4) Residence 116 Grand Road Disruption
CHL (5) Waterscape Trent River, part of the Trent-Severn
Waterway, National Historical Site.
Disruption
CHL (6) Streetscape Saskatoon Avenue at Second Street Disruption
CHL (7) Streetscape Frank Street at Second Street Disruption
CHL (8) Streetscape Second Street from Saskatoon Avenue to
Doxsee Avenue South including 17 Second
Street, municipally designated under
OHA.
Disruption
7) Canrobert Street/River Street #1— Potential High Disruption Impacts
Seven (7) potential high disruption effects to of cultural heritage resources were
identified based on the mapping provided by AECOM Canada Ltd.
Resource Type Location Impact
BHR (1) Former Residence 60 Grand Road at intersection with
Canrobert Street, southwest corner.
Disruption
BHR (2) Residence 44 Canrobert Street Disruption
BHR (3) Residence 40-42 Canrobert Street Disruption
BHR (4) Residence 38 Canrobert Street Disruption
BHR (5) Residence 30 Canrobert Street Disruption
CHL (6) Waterscape Trent River, part of the Trent-Severn
Waterway, National Historical Site.
Disruption
BHR (7) Public 36 Front Street South Disruption
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8) Canrobert Street/River Street #2— Potential High Disruption Impacts
Eight (8) potential high disruption effects to of cultural heritage resources were identified
based on the mapping provided by AECOM Canada Ltd.
Resource Type Location Impact
BHR (1) Former Residence 60 Grand Road at intersection with
Canrobert Street, southwest corner.
Disruption
BHR (2) Residence 44 Canrobert Street Disruption
BHR (3) Residence 40-42 Canrobert Street Disruption
BHR (4) Residence 38 Canrobert Street Disruption
BHR (5) Residence 30 Canrobert Street Disruption
CHL (6) Waterscape Trent River, part of the Trent-Severn
Waterway, National Historical Site.
Disruption
BHR (7) Public 58 Saskatoon Avenue (Fire Hall), which is
municipally designated under OHA
Disruption
BHR (8) Commercial 37 Saskatoon Avenue, which is municipally
designated under OHA
Disruption
9) Bridge Street Twinning South— Potential High Disruption Impacts
Six (6) potential high disruption effects to of cultural heritage resources were identified
based on the mapping provided by AECOM Canada Ltd.
Resource Type Location Impact
CHL (1) Streetscape Bridge Street West Disruption
BHR (2) Legion Hall 34 Bridge Street West Disruption
BHR (3) Former Residence 28 Bridge Street West Disruption
CHL (6) Streetscape 4A, 6A, 8, 12 Bridge Street West Disruption
CHL (9) Waterscape Trent River, part of the Trent-Severn
Waterway, National Historical Site.
Disruption
CHL (10) Streetscape Bridge Street East at Front Street including
4-8 Front Street South.
Disruption
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10) Bridge Street Twinning North— Potential High Disruption Impacts
Six (6) potential high disruption effects to of cultural heritage resources were identified
based on the mapping provided by AECOM Canada Ltd.
Resource Type Location Impact
CHL (1) Streetscape Bridge Street West Disruption
BHR (2) Legion Hall 34 Bridge Street West Disruption
BHR (3) Former Residence 28 Bridge Street West Disruption
CHL (5) Commercial Block 15-25 Bridge Street West Disruption
CHL (9) Waterscape Trent River, part of the Trent-Severn
Waterway, National Historical Site.
Disruption
CHL (10) Streetscape Bridge Street East at Front Street including 2
Front Street North
Disruption
11) Garry Street/Market Street — Potential High Disruption Impacts
Eight (8) potential high disruption effects to of cultural heritage resources were identified
based on the mapping provided by AECOM Canada Ltd.
Resource Type Location Impact
BHR (2) Residence 62 Queen Street Disruption
BHR (3) Residence 88 Queen Street Disruption
BHR (11) Commercial 97 Front Street North Disruption
BHR (4) Residence 94 Queen Street Disruption
BHR (5) Residence 103 Queen Street Disruption
CHL (6) Waterscape Trent River, part of the Trent-Severn
Waterway, National Historical Site.
Disruption
BHR (12) Residence 100 Front Street North Disruption
CHL (13) Streetscape Front Street North Disruption
12) Church Street/Market Street— Potential High Disruption Impacts
Four (4) potential high disruption effects to of cultural heritage resources were identified
based on the mapping provided by AECOM Canada Ltd.
Resource Type Location Impact
BHR (1) Residence 158 Queen Street Disruption
BHR (2) Residence 166 Queen Street Disruption
CHL (4) Waterscape Trent River, part of the Trent-Severn
Waterway, National Historical Site.
Disruption
BHR (9) Residence 110 Front Street North Disruption
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6.2.2 Displacement Impacts
With the exception of 58 Saskatoon Avenue, which is designated under Part IV of the
Ontario Heritage Act (OHA), the cultural heritage resources, identified by AECOM Ltd.
as potential displacements due to a proposed new bridge crossing alternative, have not
been evaluated for heritage significance and are considered to be of varying degrees of
local heritage interest and value. CHL and BHR numbers reference the site number in
Tables 1 to 12.
Outside Historic Core
1) Meyers Island Road/James Road to Bradley Road to CR8— Potential Displacement
Impacts
There are no known displacements of cultural heritage resources based on the mapping
provided by AECOM Canada Ltd.
2) 4th Line— Potential Displacement Impacts
There are no known displacements of cultural heritage resources based on the mapping
provided by AECOM Canada Ltd.
3) 5th Line #1— Potential Displacement Impacts
There are no known displacements of cultural heritage resources based on the mapping
provided by AECOM Canada Ltd.
4) 5th Line 1A— Potential Displacement Impacts
There are no known displacements of cultural heritage resources based on the mapping
provided by AECOM Canada Ltd.
Within the Historic Core
5) Alma Street/Doxsee Avenue South— Potential Displacement Impacts
Two (2) potential displacements of cultural heritage resources were identified based on
the mapping provided by AECOM Canada Ltd.
Resource Type Location Impact
BHR (7) Residence 61 Second Street Displacement
BHR (8) Residence 65 Second Street Displacement
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6) Alma Street/Second Street— Potential Displacement Impacts
One (1) potential displacement of cultural heritage resources were identified based on the
mapping provided by AECOM Canada Ltd.
Resource Type Location Impact
BHR (2) Residence 120 Grand Road Displacement
7) Canrobert Street/River Street #1— Potential Displacement Impacts
One (1) potential displacement of cultural heritage resources were identified based on the
mapping provided by AECOM Canada Ltd.
Resource Type Location Impact
BHR (7) Institutional
58 Saskatoon Avenue, municipally
designated under OHA.
Displacement
8) Canrobert Street/River Street #2— Potential Displacement Impacts
There are no known displacements of cultural heritage resources based on the mapping
provided by AECOM Canada Ltd.
9) Bridge Street Twinning South— Potential Displacement Impacts
Three (3) potential displacements of cultural heritage resources were identified based on
the mapping provided by AECOM Canada Ltd.
Resource Type Location Impact
BHR (5) Commercial 15-25 Bridge Street West Displacement
BHR (8) Bridge Bridge Street over Trent River. Displacement
BHR (12) Commercial Block 4-8 Front Street South Displacement
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10) Bridge Street Twinning North— Potential Displacement Impacts
Four (4) potential displacements of cultural heritage resources were identified based on
the mapping provided by AECOM Canada Ltd.
Resource Type Location Impact
BHR (4) Commercial 18 Bridge Street West Displacement
BHR (6) Commercial Block 4 to 12 Bridge Street West Displacement
BHR (8) Bridge Bridge Street over Trent River. Displacement
BHR (11) Commercial Block 2 Front Street North Displacement
11) Garry Street/Market Street — Potential Displacement Impacts
Four (4) potential displacements of cultural heritage resources were identified based on
the mapping provided by AECOM Canada Ltd.
Resource Type Location Impact
BHR (1) Former Church 67 Queen Street Displacement
BHR (3) Residence 88 Front Street North Displacement
BHR (9) Residence 92 Front Street North Displacement
BHR (10) Residence 96 Front Street North Displacement
12) Church Street/Market Street— Potential Displacement Impacts
Four (4) potential displacements of cultural heritage resources were identified based on
the mapping provided by AECOM Canada Ltd.
Resource Type Location Impact
BHR (3) Commercial 149 Queen Street Displacement
BHR (5) Residence 97 Front Street North Displacement
BHR (7) Residence 105 Front Street North Displacement
BHR (8) Residence 106 Front Street North Displacement
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6.3 Impact Assessment
The cultural heritage resource assessment of the proposed bridge alternatives for the
Trent River Bridge Crossing is value based. Value- based heritage evaluation includes
activities that identifies places and buildings with heritage value of significance and/or
interest through an understanding of their historical, cultural, community and aesthetic
attributes. The assessment recognizes the value of municipally designated properties
measured against potential disruption and displacement effects, and recognizes some of
the alternative crossings will have a greater visual impact on the Trent River, which is
part of the Trent-Severn Waterway, a nationally recognized historical site.
Due to the nature of the undertaking all twelve (12) proposed bridge alternatives for the
Trent River Bridge Crossing will result in varying degrees of change to the existing
cultural heritage environment and will affect built heritage resources and/or cultural
heritage landscapes of 40 years of age and older. All twelve (12) of the proposed bridge
alternatives for the Trent River Bridge Crossing will result in disruption effects—
principally visual of differing degrees—to the Trent River. The Trent River is considered
to be of important heritage significance. The historic viewshed of the Trent River
together with the historic core of Campbellford are considered to be of important heritage
significance or value. The historic core of downtown Campbellford is considered to be of
important cultural heritage significance or value and forms an individual cultural heritage
landscape common to the eight (8) alternatives surveyed within the historic core. Within
this large cultural heritage landscape, there are smaller and more discrete areas of
heritage interest or value such as streetscapes.
The value based review of the twelve (12) proposed bridge alternatives for the Trent
River Bridge Crossing in regard to cultural heritage resources was undertaken and the
four (4) proposed bridge alternatives for the Trent River Bridge Crossing located outside
the historical core of Campbellford would have the least negative impact to cultural
heritage landscapes and built heritage resources. There are no associated displacement
impacts to cultural heritage landscapes or built heritage resources and minimal high
disruption impacts. They four (4) proposed bridge alternatives for the Trent River Bridge
Crossing outside the historic core of Campbellford are:
o Meyers Island Road/James Road to Bradley Road to CR8;
o 4th Line;
o 5th Line # 1; and,
o 5th Line 1A.
AECOM Canada Ltd. has undertaken an evaluation of all alternatives in which they have
incorporated the input from this report under the factor, “Cultural Environment”. This
report has identified heritage resource mitigation measures in Section 7.0 that would
apply to the preferred Trent River Bridge Crossing alternative identified by AECOM.
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7.0 MITIGATION RECOMMENDATIONS
A proposed undertaking should not adversely affect cultural heritage resources and
intervention should be managed in such a way that its impact is sympathetic with the
value of the resources. When the nature of the undertaking is such that adverse impacts
are unavoidable it may be necessary to implement management or mitigation strategies
that alleviate the deleterious effects to cultural heritage resource. Mitigation is the process
of causing lessening or negating anticipated adverse impacts to cultural heritage
resources and may include such actions as avoidance, monitoring, protection, relocation,
documentation, salvage, remedial landscaping, etc. Mitigation may be a temporary or
permanent action.
The principal philosophy in the protection of culturally significant heritage features such
as listed and designated built heritage resources is to preserve the heritage building or
structure in situ. The following conservation options, listed in descending order of
preference, are standard mitigation measures for cultural heritage resources:
1. Retention of the existing built heritage resource in-situ.
2. Relocation of the existing built heritage resource to a new location on its current
site.
3. Relocation of the existing built heritage resource to an appropriate new site
nearby in the municipality, preferably in the vicinity of its original location to
preserve its historical value.
4. Full recording and documentation of the built heritage resource if it is to be
demolished.
5. Salvage of elements for incorporation into existing historic or new structures.
Mitigation recommendations for the undertaking are as follows, and apply only to the
preferred selected alternative for the Trent River Crossing:
(1) Where a building is protected by municipal designation under the Ontario Heritage
Act and it is to be affected by a preferred bridge alternative, either by high disruption
or displacement effects, a qualified built heritage consultant should undertake a
heritage impact assessment report as part of the mitigation measures. Mitigation
measures shall include a cultural heritage documentation report including exterior
and interior photographs, photo key plans, site plan and floor plans if deemed
necessary as well as the documentation of the associated cultural heritage landscape,
both within the legal property boundaries and of the immediate surroundings or
streetscape. This action should occur prior to Detail Design.
(2) A heritage evaluation report shall be prepared including historical research and
heritage evaluation using the Ontario Heritage Regulation 9/06 to ascertain the
heritage value of those non-designated or non listed resources of 40 years and older
identified as a built heritage resource or cultural heritage landscape to be affected by
displacement or high disruption effects due to the undertaking. If a building is
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deemed worthy of listing or municipal designation, the Town of Trent Hills shall act
accordingly to protect its cultural heritage resources.
(3) If a heritage building or structure considered to be worthy of listing or municipal
designation after a heritage evaluation report is completed and it is to be displaced as
a result of the undertaking, a cultural heritage documentation report including
exterior and interior photographs, photo key plans, floor plans, site plan and
documentation of the associated cultural heritage landscape, both within the legal
property boundaries and of the immediate surroundings or streetscape shall be
completed. This action should occur prior to Detail Design.
4) If a cultural heritage landscape is to be affected by high disruption effects a cultural
heritage documentation report shall be completed including important viewsheds in
regard to the Trent River.
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Counties, Ontario. Toronto: H. Belden & Co., 1878.
National Topographical Series: Campbellford 31 C/5, 1933, 1960 and 1994.
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Contacts
Kari Parr. Coordinator of Human Resources and Special Projects. Municipality of Trent
Hills.
Anne Rowe. Trent Hills Heritage Advisory Committee.
APPENDIX A:
HISTORICAL MAPS
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Illustrated Historical Atlas of the Northumberland and
Durham Counties, Ontario. Toronto: H. Belden & Co., 1878.
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Town of Campbellford, Illustrated Historical Atlas of the Northumberland and
Durham Counties, Ontario. Toronto: H. Belden & Co., 1878.
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National Topographical Series: Campbellford 31 C/5 (1933)
{Information current as of 1931].
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National Topographical Series: Campbellford 31 C/5 (1960).
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National Topographical Series: Campbellford 31 C/5 (1994)
[Information current as of 1988].
APPENDIX B:
HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS
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[Source: Interpretation Plaque in Park at Alma Street].
View eastward across the Campbellford Bridge c1900 showing 2 Front Street North on left and 4-8
Front Street South (Ferris Block) on right [Source: Campbellford Library Vertical file, Reflections:
Campbellford Centennial Year 1976].
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Aerial view of Campbellford looking north to Bridge [Source: Campbellford Library Vertical file,
Reflections: Campbellford Centennial Year 1976].