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Port Stanley is a community in the Municipality
of Central Elgin, Ontario located on the north shore of Lake Erie at
the mouth of Kettle Creek.
Port Stanley has a large sheltered harbour operated by Transport
Canada. Historically, these facilities supported trade in coal and
wood between Southwestern Ontario and the United States. Today, most
of these facilities are dormant, but a commerical freshwater fishery
operates from the harbour.
Attractions include a large sandy beach and the Port Stanley Festival
Theatre. Port Stanley Terminal Rail operates a tourist train between
St. Thomas, Ontario and Port Stanley using a portion of the former
L&PS rail line (see The London and Port Stanley Railway). The village
used to have the Stork Club, which had the largest dance floor in the
London-Port Stanley area; the club, famous for swing dance and big
band, burned in the 1970s.
A settlement named Kettle Creek was founded here in 1812 by
Lieutenant-Colonel John Bostwick. Around 1824, it was renamed Port
Stanley after Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, who had
visited nearby Port Talbot. Lord Stanley later became Prime Minister
of the United Kingdom and the father of Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl
of Derby, Governor General of Canada, ice hockey enthusiast and donor
of the first Stanley Cup in 1893.
During the 1970s, the village promoted itself with the acronym CALIPSO:
Come And Live In Port Stanley Ontario.
Over the past decade, there have been numerous proposals to operate a
ferry between Port Stanley and Cleveland, Ohio.
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