Haysville, Ontario Explained

Official Name:Haysville
Settlement Type:Unincorporated community
Pushpin Map:CAN ON Waterloo#Canada Southern Ontario
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Canada
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Ontario
Subdivision Type2:Regional municipality
Subdivision Name2:Waterloo
Subdivision Type3:Township
Subdivision Name3:Wilmot
Timezone:EST
Utc Offset:-5
Timezone Dst:EDT
Utc Offset Dst:-4
Coordinates:43.3558°N -80.6625°W
Postal Code Type:Forward sortation area
Postal Code:N??
Area Code:519 and 226
Blank Name:NTS Map
Blank Info:040P07
Blank1 Name:GNBC Code
Blank1 Info:FBMQA

Haysville is a village in Wilmot Township in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The Nith River flows through the village. Local students go to Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School in Baden and Forest Glen Public School in New Hamburg.

It was named after Robert Hays who built a number of mills there and became its first postmaster in 1837. It was known as Jonesborough, Jonestown, and Wilmot before becoming Haysville in 1848.

The first settler in the area was William Hobson, an agent of the Canada Company who was part of a team that went to Goderich in 1829. Hobson preferred the area around what is now Haysville and built a log cabin there. In the 1830s, he built a hotel near the Nith River which became a popular stop on the trail between Guelph and the Huron Tract. Haysville continued to be a busy stage coach stopover until the Grand Trunk Railway arrived in 1856 and bypassed the village and went through New Hamburg instead.

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