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Fergus: The stone town on the Grand.
Scottish to its stones: Fergus's limestone downtown rises straight from the banks of the Grand, and every summer the Scottish Festival and Highland Games fill the town with pipes and tartan. Heritage mills, riverside walks, and a main street that earned its postcard.
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The community
A Scottish town since 1833.
The Highland Games
Each August the Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games fills three days with heavy events, pipe band competitions, Highland dancers and more than 50 clans, along with a heritage village, Celtic musicians and whisky tastings. The 2027 festival, from August 13 to 15, will be the 82nd.
The Grand Theatre
St. Andrew Street has stores and restaurants in stone buildings from the 1800s, and the Fergus Grand Theatre there, opened as a cinema in 1928, now hosts live shows and plays.
Ontario's oldest curling club
The Fergus Curling Club was founded in 1834 by settlers from Scotland, with Adam Fergusson as its first president. Its matches were played outdoors until an indoor rink opened in 1879, and it is the oldest continuously running curling club in Ontario.
Live here
Downtown, on both banks of the Grand.
Downtown Fergus sits on both sides of the Grand River, with the falls between the library and the old market buildings.
St. Andrew Street
St. Andrew Street runs along the north bank of the river and is the main street of downtown, with its stores, restaurants and theatre. The streets around it keep many of the stone houses that Scottish settlers built in the 1800s.
Queen Street and the south bank
Across the river, Queen Street has shops in restored historic warehouses, and Templin Gardens is on Tower Street South. The Riverwalk Loop gives walkers a view of the Grand River and the falls.
Living here
Parks, trails and the lake.
The Sportsplex
The Centre Wellington Community Sportsplex at 550 Belsyde Avenue East has two arena floors, an aquatic centre, a hall, a weight room and a fitness room. Outside are sports fields, a ball diamond, a skate park, tennis courts and a wooded trail.
Trails to Elora
The Elora Cataract Trailway, on the old Credit Valley Railway line, crosses the north end of Fergus and runs east along the top of the Shand Dam to Belwood Lake. The Trestle Bridge Trail, 4 km long, links Fergus and Elora, and together the two make the 9.3 km Trails Loop on easy stone dust paths.
Parks around town
Victoria Park on Albert Street West has a lit soccer field, a rugby field, a running track and a playground, and Highland Park has three ball diamonds, one of them lit. Stait Park on Garafraxa Street has a fully accessible playground, Millburn Park has a splash pad, and the Fergus Dog Park on Glengarry Crescent has five acres of off-leash space with an agility course.
Belwood Lake
Just east of town, Belwood Lake is a 12 km reservoir made by the Shand Dam in 1942, with boating, fishing and water-skiing. Its conservation area has a spring-fed quarry with a sandy beach, and visitors can walk across the dam for a view of the Grand River valley below.
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History
Richard Pierpoint, a Black Loyalist who had fought for the British in the American Revolutionary War, was granted land here, and the first settlement was known as the Pierpoint Settlement. In 1833 Adam Fergusson and James Webster founded a village at the falls of the Grand River, first called Little Falls. Scottish settlers built stone mills, houses and factories powered by the river, and the village was incorporated as Fergus in 1858, named for Adam Fergusson. Fergus became a town in 1953, and in 1999 it joined Elora and the surrounding townships to form Centre Wellington.
The homes
The 2021 census counts Fergus, Elora and Salem together as one urban area, so these figures cover all three. It counted about 9,400 homes. About two in three are single detached houses and about one in six are in apartment buildings under five storeys. Row houses and semi-detached houses together make up about one in seven. About one in five homes were built in 1960 or earlier and about one in five between 1961 and 1980. About a quarter were built between 1981 and 2000, and about a third in 2001 or later. In Fergus, stone houses from the 1800s stand in and around downtown, and newer streets have grown on the edges of town, including the south-east around Centre Wellington District High School.
Getting around
Highway 6 runs through Fergus, south to Guelph and north to Arthur. Guelph City Hall is about 22 km away by road, a drive of about 22 minutes, and Highway 401 is about 39 km away by Highway 6 and the Hanlon Expressway. Uptown Waterloo is about 36 km away by road. Wellington Road 18 links Fergus with Elora, about 5 km to the west.
Parks and daily life
Beatty Park has an outdoor rink in winter. The Fergus branch of the Wellington County Library is at 190 St. Andrew Street West; the town's first library, built with a Carnegie grant, opened in 1911. Between Fergus and Elora, the Wellington County Museum and Archives is in a stone building of 1877 that is a National Historic Site, and Groves Memorial Community Hospital is on Frederick Campbell Street.
Schools
- James McQueen Public School — JK to Grade 3. The public school for central Fergus north of the river, on St. George Street West, and the French immersion school from JK to Grade 2 for Fergus, Elora and Salem.
- Victoria Terrace Public School — JK to Grade 6. The public school for the north end of town, on Victoria Terrace.
- John Black Public School — JK to Grade 8. The public school for the east end, the school for Grades 4 to 8 from central Fergus, and the middle school for Victoria Terrace, on Lamond Street.
- J.D. Hogarth Public School — JK to Grade 8. The public school for the south side, including Tower Street South, Belsyde Avenue East and Millburn Boulevard, with French immersion from Grade 3 to Grade 8.
- Centre Wellington District High School — Grades 9 to 12. The public secondary school for Fergus, Elora and most of the township, on Scotland Street, with French immersion.
- St. Joseph Catholic School — JK to Grade 8. The Catholic elementary school, on Strathallan Street.
- St. James Catholic High School — Grades 9 to 12. The Catholic secondary school for Fergus, on Victoria Road North in Guelph.
Attendance boundaries, not distances. Confirm with the board's school finder.
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