THE NAMING OF CLEMENGER ROAD
/Wayne VanVolkenburg has done some research on the naming of some of our roads. He writes:
Sometime during Mike Harris's time as Premier of Ontario (1995-2002), it was determined that all of the municipal roads should be given official names. It seems that the Reeve for each municipality was given this responsibility. I was told that John Wilkes would have been responsible for Marmora and Lake Township.
The Clemenger family were early settlers along the road that now bears their name. John Clemenger owned the E1/2 of Lot 20, Con.1, and Thomas Clemenger owned the W1/2 of that lot. The land was purchased in 1869. This location is at the intersection of the Cordova Road, and the current "Clemenger Road." William Clemenger, born in 1832, in Ireland, purchased the E1/2 0f Lot 22, Con.1, in 1869. In the 1891 census, William, widowed, was living with his son, Henry. Henry, born in 1867, married Emma Drusilla Whitney in 1892. They had 11 (or 12?) children!. Now there were many Clemengers in the area.
That would make their name a logical choice for the road's name.
Henry (a.k.a. Thomas Henry) Clemenger and Emma Drucilla Whitney 1871–1950
Mildred Pearl Clemenger 1892–1972 William Albert Clemenger 1895–1968 Henry Gordon Clemenger 1897–1986 Cecil Roy Clemenger* 1898–1959 Joseph Earl Clemenger 1901–1981 Cora Vivian Clemenger 1904–1995 Clayton Forest Clemenger 1905–1974 Clinton Alex Clemenger 1905–1993 Howard Alexander Clemenger 1908– .Stewart Valentine Clemenger 1908–1996 George Harold Clemenger 1909–1989 Marjorie Madeline Clemenger 1915–2000
SS 9 - the School on Clemenger Road
While we are a little vague on details for S.S. 9, we believe it was originally built on the Clemenger Road, near the Cook's Cheese Factory, but was torn down (1902?) and the children transferred to the Cordova School. S.S. #12 (Belmont)
Wayne VanVolkenburg advises “At that time (when the school was torn down) the Clemenger road followed a little different route. Somewhere near the cheese factory it veered and met the Cordova road somewhere near #2298. The school was located somewhere between those two points. The area was also known as Pleasant Corners.
