Where is Wilno, Ontario located?

Wilno is located in Ontario, Canada, at approximate coordinates 45.5114°, -77.5602°.

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Overview

Wilno is a settlement in the Township Municipality of Madawaska Valley, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada.

History & geography

History

Wilno is the first and oldest Polish-Kashubian settlement in Canada. Most of the original settlers in the area came around 1858 from the Polish cultural region of Kashubia. (Prussia had annexed the region from Poland in 1795, but it is now part of Poland again.) They are an integral part of the Kashubian diaspora. One of the reasons that they chose the area was that the landscape reminded them of their original homes. Wilno's namesake was the city of Vilnius, known in Polish as Wilno, which was then in the Russian Empire in an area that used to belong to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and is now the capital of Lithuania. The city was the birthplace of Reverend Ludwik Dembski, who was a prominent community spiritual leader and town founder, who would not have wanted the town named after himself. Therefore, the townsfolk, grateful for his contributions to their town, may have suggested the name of Wilno. The St. Stanislaus Kostka Church was built in 1875, destroyed in a fire in 1936 and rebuilt as Saint Mary - Our Lady of Czestochowa. later renamed St. Mary's Catholic Church. The first general store and post office were initially operated by Adam Prince, who became the community's first postmaster in 1885; the settlement was initially named Princetown before being renamed Wilno. Flora's Store was started by Flora Bank in 1937; it was destroyed in a fire in 1940 but rebuilt. The business went through several owners and changes but was closed down in 2015. In 1894, the Canada Atlantic Railway arrived in the Madawaska Valley. The former train route has now been redeveloped into a recreational path. The former train station has an early settler building and museum presenting the early history of the town. The museum and open air wooden skansen (Polish: "open-air…

Geography

Wilno is nestled in the rolling, picturesque terrain of the Madawaska valley which was largely shaped during the demise of the Laurentide Ice Sheet at the end of the last North American Ice Age.

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