Brockville

Brockville (2001 population 21,375, metropolitan population 44,741) is located in the Thousand Islands region on the St. Lawrence River in eastern Ontario, Canada, in the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor. The area of the city is 20.73 square kilometres. It is the county seat for the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville.

The self-proclaimed "City of the 1000 Islands", Brockville is located directly opposite Morristown, New York on the Saint Lawrence Seaway, about mid-way between Cornwall in the east and Kingston in the west and a little over an hour from the nation's capital, Ottawa.

Originally settled by United Empire Loyalists in 1785, it was known as Buell's Bay in honour of the community's founder William Buell. Brockville was renamed in 1812 in honour of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, the national hero of the War of 1812.

Brockville was Ontario's first incorporated municipality. Its coat of arms, featuring a beehive surrounded by a golden chain, bears the motto Industria, Intelligentia, Prosperitas. The Port of Brockville was connected to the main line of the Grand Trunk Railroad by a tunnel constructed beneath the municipality. This was a distinctive feat of engineering accomplished between 1854 and 1860. It is the oldest railway tunnel in Canada, having been inaugurated on December 31, 1860.