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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 .
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 total length of Highway 23 is 97.7 kilometres (60.7 miles). The highway was first established in 1927 between Highway 8 in Mitchell and Highway 9 in Teviotdale, via Monkton, Listowel and Palmerston. As part of a depression relief program, it was extended south to Highway 7 in 1934.
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.
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
Map; CPN5. Location in Ontario. Runways; Direction Length Surface ft m 04/22 2,000 610 Turf Source: Canada Flight Supplement [1] Listowel Airport (TC LID: CPN5) ...
Google responded by agreeing to respect privacy laws in Canada and other countries. [13] Ultimately, Google agreed to blur faces and license plates that appeared in images taken. Google has since done the same in other countries, including the United States, regardless of whether or not it is legally compelled to do so. [14]
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.