Priceville, Ontario

Priceville
Priceville
	Village
	Priceville Location of Priceville in Ontario.
	Coordinates: 44.210019°N 80.626602°W
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
County	Grey County
Municipality	Grey Highlands

Priceville is a village in the southwest corner of the Municipality of Grey Highlands, Grey County, Ontario, Canada. It is on the Saugeen River on Grey Road 4, east of Durham and southwest of Flesherton.

Railway station in Priceville, 1914

History

The first settlers were African Americans, who established a small settlement along Old Durham Road (now Durham Road B) east of the village. Here they built a log school, a log church and established a cemetery.[1] Many of these early settlers later moved to Collingwood, Oro, or Owen Sound. All that remains to commemorate this community is a cairn and refurbished grave site at the intersection of County Road 14 and Durham Road B some three kilometers east of Priceville. The discovery and refurbishment of this cemetery is documented in the 2000 National Film Board of Canada film, Speakers for the Dead, co-directed by Jennifer Holness and David Sutherland (now Sudz Sutherland).[1][2]

Gaelic-speaking Scottish people arrived around 1850. Almost all the early headstones in the pioneer cemetery commemorate people of Scottish origin. Some of these settlers intermarried with the black settlers.[1]

Amenities in Priceville include a post office; a riverside park with a picnic area, swimming and fishing opportunities, and a canoe and kayak launch; a toboggan hill; a sports park; an outdoor skating rink; and a children's playground. Events that attract many visitors include a biennial Santa Claus parade, an annual antique car and tractor show, and a July 1 Canada Day celebration with a concert and fireworks.

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References

Brown, DeNeen (19 February 2002). "Canadian town tried to bury its founding by black pioneers". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007 – via Pipe Dream (Binghamton University).
Jennifer Holness and David Sutherland (co-directors) (2000). "Speakers for the Dead" (requires Adobe Flash). NFB.ca. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 2 August 2012.

Priceville and Its Root/Routes, Priceville (and Area) Historical Society, ISBN 0-9696807-0-8
Split Rail Country, A History of Artemesia Township, ISBN 978-0-9692578-0-6, pp. 437–45
Interview with Mrs. J. MacLachlan, a longtime resident of Priceville with an African American great grandfather.

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[Pipe-1] Brown, DeNeen (19 February 2002). "Canadian town tried to bury its founding by black pioneers". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007 – via Pipe Dream (Binghamton University).

[2] Jennifer Holness and David Sutherland (co-directors) (2000). "Speakers for the Dead" (requires Adobe Flash). NFB.ca. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 2 August 2012.