Harrow

Community Organizations: Camões Portuguese Club of Harrow

THE MOST PORTUGUESE JURISDICTION IN CANADA

HARROW’S POPULATION – 2,935

STATISTICS FOR THE PORTUGUESE IN HARROW:

AS MOTHER TONGUE	AS MOST SPOKEN	KNOWLEDGE OF THE LANGUAGE	BORN IN PORTUGAL	ETHNIC ORIGIN
205 7% of population	105 3.6% of population	200 6.7% of population	150 5.1% of population	400 13.6% of population

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Harrow was founded in 1747 but never grew to become a major Canadian Hub, mainly due to its proximity to Windsor. Hiram Walker, founder of Canadian Club Whiskey, is responsible for bringing residents to the locality after he ordered the construction of a railway (to transport the products to produce whiskey) that passed through the town. The railway remained in operation for over a century and its tracks were finally removed in 1992. Although still a small town, it is here that one of the most recent and more imposing buildings that serve the community was built very recently, housing the local Camões Portuguese Club of Harrow.

According to the 2021 Census, there are 205 residents here who consider Portuguese their mother tongue, 105 speak it most often at home and 200 can communicate in the language. In total, 150 local residents were born in Portugal and 400 consider Portuguese to be their ethnic background. This makes Harrow the most Portuguese jurisdiction in Canada.

Harrow has been home to an annual agricultural fair for nearly two centuries now. The town is currently home to Harrow Research and Development Centre, the largest greenhouse research complex facility in North America.

With files from Luso-Ontario Magazine, 2008

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