Ameliasburg is a village in the Township of Ameliasburgh in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada. The village of Ameliasburgh was sometimes known as Roblin's Mills after one of its early settlers and the mill he built; the shallow lake to the south of the village is known as Roblin Lake. One of the first townships surveyed in Ontario, Ameliasburgh Township,bordered on the north by the south shore of the Bay of Quinte, was known as Seventh Town in the early days of settlement. Much later the poet Al Purdy lived in a cottage on Roblin Lake for many years. Several of Purdy's poems, most famously including Wilderness Gothic, mention features in and around...
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