Talk:Uxbridge, Ontario

Some pretty bad vandalism, Luckily I caught it and did as many repairs as I could just a day after it happened. - January 4th, 2012

Is the list of churches necessary? There doesn't seem to be anything notable in terms of numbers, denominations or anything else. Blotto adrift 15:39, 16 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree. It seems a bit superlative ...  -- Mike Helms 12:44, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Image needed
If anyone in Uxbridge is reading this, please upload a free use picture of the Uxbridge Train Station.
 * There are lots of pictures on Flickr. Someone could ask there.66.36.243.94 (talk) 17:02, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Origin of the name Uxbridge - Good Idea to get this one right :)
In his autobiography 'The Boy I left Behind Me', Canadian humorist and writer Stephen Leacock (who worked as a Modern Language teacher at the Uxbridge High School in 1889) specifically states that the town was named after the Earl of Uxbridge, who was one of Wellington's generals at Waterloo and is best remembered for losing his leg there, rather than the London borough.

The exact quote reads 'Uxbridge, as its name shows and as the adjacent township of Brock indicates, belongs among the settlements that followed the Great War (once so called)* when the Battle of Waterloo and Lord Uxbridge as a Waterloo hero and General Brock's heroic death at Queenstown Heights were memories of yesterday.'


 * This biography was written in the 1930s (although only published after his death in 1946) and prior to 1914-18, 'Great War' referred to the Napoleonic Wars.

Leacock should probably also appear in the list of Notable Residents; he's not much remembered today but he was a very successful author in his time and the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour is still awarded every year.

Robinvp11 (talk) 13:21, 1 March 2016 (UTC)