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Nov 20, Christmas Bazaar and Bake Sale. Dream Ball's Restaurant Rendezvous. Peterborough began as a Saxon settlement. The Saxons built a village on the site of Peterborough called Medehamstede meadow homestead. About an abbey was built next to it. However, this abbey was plundered by the Danes in and was then abandoned. A new abbey was built in and a village grew up nearby. About AD a wall was built around the settlement to protect it from marauding Danes. It was called St Peters burgh. Burgh was the Saxon word for a fortified settlement.
The Abbot allowed the people of the nearby village to have a market. Soon Peterborough grew into a small town, in the shadow of the abbey. In an army of Danes and some Saxons attempted to overthrow William the Conqueror. They sacked the abbey at Peterborough and burned the town. However, Peterborough soon recovered from the disaster and was rebuilt. During the Middle Ages Peterborough was a small and relatively unimportant town controlled by the Abbot. The original town stood east of the abbey.
In the abbey was destroyed by fire. A new abbey was built after and the Abbot moved the town to the west of it. He laid out a new marketplace there and new streets were built around it. The streets in Peterborough ending in gate Cowgate, Priestgate, etc are derived from the Danish word meaning street, gata. In Medieval Peterborough, the main industry was weaving wool.
Apart from the markets from the late 12th century the town also had an annual fair. In the Middle Ages, a fair was like a market but it was held only once a year for a period of a few days and it would attract buyers and sellers from several counties. From the midth century, Peterborough had 2 fairs. In the early 12th century a leper hospital was built just outside Peterborough.
Longthorpe Tower was built about The first wooden bridge over the river at Peterborough was built in It replaced a ford. Then the Church of St John the Baptist was built in Peterborough Abbey was closed in However, in the abbey church was made a cathedral. Also in , a school called the Kings school was founded. Peterborough was now officially a city but it was a very small one even by the standards of the time.
The development of Red Fife WHEAT in the area was an important contribution to Canada's agriculture, but timber was the main source of wealth for more than half a century. By the s Peterborough was Ontario's principal timber producer, shipping over m 3 to American wholesalers annually. The city remains a major manufacturing centre, with the addition of such companies as Fisher Gauge.
However, since the s major companies have closed their operations. The proportion of the workforce in manufacturing has declined, but the diversity of employers has increased. The engineering marvels of the world's highest lift lock on the Trent-Severn Waterway, the Centennial Fountain, and the architecturally acclaimed Trent University reflect continuing change.
Peterborough's population doubled every 2 decades before World War I, thanks to the lumber economy and manufacturing and to the annexation of Ashburnham pop e as the city grew from c to 18 c. The modest growth since then has been more rapid than elsewhere in eastern Ontario except Ottawa because of manufacturing expansion through the s and the more recent opportunities in education, tourism and commerce.
The city's unique quality is its demographic averageness - by religion, occupation and ethnicity - making it a bellwether riding provincially and federally and a favourite site for consumer market testing.
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