Abstract
Drayton is a small town twenty seven miles north-west of Waterloo. It was first settled in the 1840’s by English families from York County (Jones, Dales, Hambly) who named their community after Sir Robert Peel’s country house in Staffordshire. For the first decades of its history the little settlement flourished. In 1875 it was incorporated as a Village. Four years earlier the Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railway had been pushed through to Harriston thereby giving Drayton that trade and passenger link with the larger towns to the south that was essential for future growth. Within a few years an active and, as far as anyone could tell, successful policy of encouraging industry to locate in the area was embarked upon. By the end of the century the population had risen to just over the one thousand mark, and the Village of Drayton seemed to stand fair for the man of hope and forward-looking mind.
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