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Listowel / ˈ l ɪ s t ə w əl / is an unincorporated community in Ontario, Canada, located in the Municipality of North Perth. Incorporated as the Town of Listowel in 1875, it was dissolved in 1998 following amalgamation with several other communities in the northern section of Perth County .
Beginning of Listowel Connecting Link agreement; [2] [9] formerly Highway 86 west; former southern end of Highway 86 concurrency: 74.4: 46.2 County Line 86 east (Main Street East) Formerly Highway 86 east; former northern end of Highway 86 concurrency: 76.0: 47.2: David Street: End of Listowel Connecting Link agreement [2] [9] West Perth: 80.1 ...
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The name was changed to Listowel when a post office was established in 1856. [2] The new name was chosen by a government official and refers to Listowel, Ireland. The majority of early settlers were of Protestant Irish origin (Ulster Scots Planters, or English Planters). [3] Listowel was incorporated as a town in 1874.
Perth County is a county and census division in the Canadian province of Ontario in Southwestern Ontario, 100 kilometres (62 mi) west of Toronto. Its population centres are Listowel, Mitchell and Milverton. The City of Stratford and the Town of St. Marys are within the Perth census division, but are administered separately from Perth County ...
In 2014, Street View imagery of Fort McMurray was uploaded. The northern Alberta city was the last remaining major Canadian urban area to be imaged. In 2016, Street View imagery of various roads in Nain were uploaded. [10] The only communities in Labrador with street view images are Red Bay, Churchill Falls, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, and Nain. [11]
Listowel used to have its own railway station on a broad gauge line between Tralee and Limerick city; however, this was closed to passengers in 1963, to freight in 1978, and finally abandoned and lifted in 1988. The station building has been preserved as a private residence. Listowel is located at the head of the North Kerry limestone plain.
Roads that run north and south, or northeast and southwest, are numbered "Road 101", "Road 102", and so on to "Road 183". The roads maintained by the County are numbered in accordance with this scheme; for example, "Perth Line 9" is the section of Line 9 that the county maintains, and "Perth Road 151" is the section of Road 151 that the county ...