Port Colborne

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Port Colborne

Total population

18,424

Coordinates42.89°, -79.25°

Demographic figures from Statistics Canada. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Port Colborne is a city in Ontario, Canada that is located on Lake Erie, at the southern end of the Welland Canal, in the Niagara Region of Southern Ontario. The original settlement, known as Gravelly Bay, dates from 1832 and was renamed after Sir John Colborne, a British war hero and the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada at the time of the opening of the (new) southern terminus of the First Welland Canal in 1833. The city's population in 2021 was 20,033.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Ted Kennedy

Canadian ice hockey player

Anthony Frederick Tonnos

Canadian Catholic bishop

Bronco Horvath

Canadian ice hockey player (1930-2019)

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Scott Gruhl

Canadian ice hockey player

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Matt Craven

Canadian actor

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Don Gallinger

Canadian ice hockey player (1925-2000)

Melissa McIntyre

Canadian actress

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Alexis Davis

Canadian mixed martial arts fighter

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Arthur Wray

Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

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Dan Olesevich

Canadian ice hockey player (1937-1983)

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Derek Amell

Ice hockey official

Don Simmons

Canadian ice hockey player (1931-2010)

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Elmer Iseler

Canadian choir conductor (1927-1998)

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John Johnston O'Neill

Canadian geologist, Geological Survey of Canada, and later, professor of geology, Dean of Science and Dean of Engineering at McGill University (1886-1966)

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Lynton Wilson

Canadian businessman

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Ray Haggerty

Canadian politician (1923-2011)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Ontario

• Crystal Beach
  9.7 mi away
• Fonthill
  10.1 mi away
• Ridgeway
  10.2 mi away
• Stevensville
  10.7 mi away
• Fenwick
  11.1 mi away
• Allanburg
  13.3 mi away
• Jordan
  18.8 mi away
• Byng
  19 mi away
• St. Davids
  20.3 mi away
• Cayuga
  31 mi away
• Caledonia
  37.7 mi away
• Hagersville
  40.8 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Port Colborne

Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada

Port Colborne Board of Trade · 1900

Vernon's City of Welland and Town of Port Colborne Ontario Miscellaneous, Business

Vernon Directories · 2023

Port Colborne Ontario Book 1 in Colour Photos

Barbara Raue · 2017

Port Colborne Ontario Book 2 in Colour Photos

Barbara Raue · 2017

Vernon's city of Welland and town of Port Colborne (Ontario) miscellaneous, business, alphabetical and street directory.

The transformation of a non-metropolitan urban centre

Renato Salerno · 1991

Drinking Water Surveillance Program annual report

Ontario. Ministry of the Environment

Port Colborne Water Treatment Plant--Drinking Water Surveillance Program, annual report

Ontario. Drinking Water Surveillance Program. · 1992

Search results from Open Library.

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