Berwick, Ontario
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Berwick is a community and the municipal seat of the Township of North Stormont in Ontario, Canada. The community is composed of farms, a school, a gas station/convenience store, and old hotel that in need of repairs with broken glass. A Chinese take-out restaurant was operated, but lasted only approximately one month. Berwick is located 63 km southeast of Ottawa, Ontario along the Payne River. The main cross streets are Cockburn Street (Crysler Road/Road 12) and Union Street (Road 9). Homestead organics, an organic farm service business, is based in Berwick
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The hamlet of Berwick was first settled by four Cockburn brothers from Scotland in the early 1800s. Berwick became the administrative home of municipal government in the former Finch Township, incorporated January 1, 1850. The New York and Ottawa Railway was built in 1897 and sent up to four daily passenger trains, as well as up to five daily freight trains through Berwick. The first church was built in 1883. When the former Finch Township, Roxborough Township and Finch Village amalgamated to form the Township of North Stormont on January 1, 1998, the municipal office remained in Berwick.
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