Aylmer is a town in Elgin County in southern Ontario, Canada, just north of Lake Erie, on Catfish Creek. It is 20 kilometres south of Highway 401, and is almost equidistant between the United States c
Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer, was a British Army officer and colonial administrator.
Aylmer, Ontario
…on the site of Aylmer. During the 1830s a general store was opened and village lots sold. Originally called Troy, in 1835 it was renamed Aylmer after Lord Aylmer, then Governor-in-Chief of British North America. By 1851 local enterprises included sawmills and flour-mills powered by water from Catfish Creek. Aided…