Petawawa Timeline
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1867Mount Zion United Church opens.
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1870Site for Petawawa Township surveyed, situated at what is now referred to as Petawawa Point.
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1875St John’s Lutheran’s first log church is built.
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1880St Matthew’s Lutheran Church built.
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1880Railway comes to area.
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1885Gustave Hampel one of the first Germans to settle in Petawawa Township.
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1888All Saints Anglican Church built.
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1895SS#4 Petawawa school built.
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1897St John Lutheran brick church built, old log church was turned into a school.
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1899Notre Dame de la Baie Catholic Church built at Black Bay.
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1900First bridge built to serve area north west of Petawawa River.
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1905Development of Camp Petawawa.
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1905Test flight at Camp Petawawa, J.A.D. McCurdy Silver Dart. F.W. Baldwin, Dr. Alexander Bell and Wright Brothers also present.
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1910Giesebrecht's one of the first settlers in the Village of Petawawa, later owned and still today operates Pepsi (soft drink) plant.
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19141914-1916 Camp Petawawa used as prisoner of war camp for 750 German Merchant Seamen and Austrian’s.