Scott's Plains was renamed Peterborough in his honour. Peter Robinson, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada and a prominent businessman from York, Upper Canada was the man who took on the emigration plan of 1825. In 1822, the British Parliament had approved an experimental emigration plan to transport poor Irish Catholic families to Upper Canada. The year 1825 marked the arrival of Irish immigrants from the city of Cork to Scott's Plains. The site has an Ojibway name "Nogojiwanong" which means "the place at the end of the rapids".Ĭox Terrace on Rubidge Street, built in 1884 and declared a National Historic Site of Canada in 1991 This location, adjacent to the Ontario government Ministry of Natural Resources building, and Peterborough's Millennium Park may have been the site of landfall for a portage which connects in a direct line with Bridgenorth. The mill was located at the foot of present-day King Street and was powered by water from Jackson Creek. The following year he began construction of a sawmill and gristmill, establishing the area as Scott's Plains. In 1818, Adam Scott settled on the west shore of the Otonabee River.
In 1615, Samuel de Champlain travelled through the area, coming down from Lake Chemong and portaging down a trail, which is approximated by present-day Chemong Road, to the Otonabee River and stayed for a brief time near the present-day site of Bridgenorth, just north of Peterborough. As a result, employment has been shifting toward the service industries and tourism is now the leading industry in the area. However, over the years the number of major manufacturing plants has declined, and General Electric closed its last remaining facility in 2018. Electricity was one of the reasons Quaker Oats moved to the city, and as part of PepsiCo remains a major fixture in the downtown area. It also underscores the historical and present-day importance of technology and manufacturing as an economic base of the city, which has operations from large multi-national companies such as Siemens, Rolls-Royce Limited, and General Electric, and more local businesses such as Merit Precision Ltd., Dynacast and Bryston. Peterborough's nickname in the distant past was "The Electric City" as it was the first town in Canada to use electric streetlights. The city is the seat of Peterborough County. It is named in honour of Peter Robinson, an early Canadian politician who oversaw the first major immigration to the area. Peterborough is known as the gateway to the Kawarthas, "cottage country", a large recreational region of the province. The current mayor of Peterborough is Diane Therrien. In 2016, Peterborough ranked 32nd among the country's 35 census metropolitan areas according to the CMA in Canada.
The population of the Peterborough Census Metropolitan Area (CMA), which includes the surrounding Townships of Selwyn, Cavan Monaghan, Otonabee-South Monaghan, and Douro-Dummer, was 121,721 in 2016. According to the 2016 Census, the population of the City of Peterborough was 81,032. Peterborough ( / ˈ p iː t ər b ʌr oʊ/ PEE-tər-burr-oh) is a city on the Otonabee River in Ontario, Canada.
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