Car Shipping Port Colborne, Auto Transport Ontario
Port Colborne on Lake Erie at the southern end of the Welland Canal in the Niagara Region of southern Ontario dates from the original 1832 settlement at shallow, bedrock-bottomed Gravelly Bay. Sir John Colborne, the city’s namesake, was a British war hero and the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada when the southern terminus opened in 1833. The 2011 Census recorded a population of 18,424, continuing a pattern of slight decrease in every census since 1971, when it was at its historic high of 21,420.
Port Colborne traces its origins back to the United Empire Loyalist settlements that after the American Revolution spread in the area around the Welland Canal after it reached Lake Erie. As the population rose, Port Colborne incorporated as a village in 1870 and as a town in 1918, merged with neighboring Humberstone in 1952, and re-incorporated as a city in 1966.
Maritime commerce was and still is an important part of Port Colborne’s economy. Like other cities in the region, Port Colborne was heavily industrial in most of the early 20th century. A grain elevator, two flour mills, an INCO nickel refinery, a cement plant, and an Algoma Steel blast furnace were all major employers; however, several have closed while those that remain employ significantly fewer residents than they did in those years. Port Colborne has attracted some new agri-business industry, the corn processors Casco, Inc and Jungbunzlauer; however, the main economic shift is towards tourism and recreation drawn by the scenic beauty of the lakeshore.
The International Nickel Company (now Vale) has long been one of the city’s main employers since opening a refinery in 1918. Utilizing inexpensive hydroelectricity from Niagara Falls generating stations, the refinery grew to 2,000 workers by the 1950s. Now cutbacks and automation have reduced the workforce to 190.
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