Cooks Mills, Welland
Cooks Mills is a small community in the easternmost part of the city of Welland in Ontario, Canada. It was established, and is still centred, on a Welland River tributary called Lyons Creek. It is almost entirely a bedroom community, as there are few employers located in the area. History The community predates the establishment of what is now downtown Welland by half a century. In 1799 the Yokom family came from Pennsylvania and built a grist mill on Lyon's Creek in Crowland Township. Just before the War of 1812, Calvin Cook purchased the mill and, together with his brother Noah, eventually adding a tannery, a sawmill and a distillery. The place known as ''Cooks Mills'' became a prominent community in the township. Toward the end of the War of 1812, a fire fight occurred at Cooks Mills, involving an American contingent sent to destroy flour and grain that might benefit the British. On the morning of October 19, 1814, the American picket just east of the mills was attacked by ...
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Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of f