Relaxing Drive from Bolton to Nobleton, ON || Listen to Famous Canadian Poem 🇨🇦

A leisurely drive from Bolton, Ontario to Nobleton. They are two Greater Toronto Area towns about 7.5 kilometres apart. Bolton is located approx. 50km NW of Toronto. It was founded in 1822 by James Bolton who helped build a flour mill for one of his relatives, George Bolton.

Bolton, today, has a population of 26,378 (according to the 2016 Census). Bolton boasts the biggest population in Caledon (Peel Region).

In this video, we start at Queen Street in Bolton. We take King St E/Peel Regional Rd 9 (King Road) to Nobleton.

Nobleton (population 4,614) is a community in SW King, Ontario. It is the 3rd largest community in King Township after King City and Schomberg and about 11 minutes west of Highway 400.
There are a lot of horse farms in Nobleton (York Region). How did Nobleton get its name? From Joseph Noble, an early settler.

The beautiful poem is by William Mackay Mackeracher (1871-1913). Mackeracher is a famous Canadian poet who wrote many poems including this one, "Canada, My Land." David Lawrence (volunteer at Librivox, free public domain audio books) powerfully reads the historic piece.(https://librivox.org/canada-my-land-by-william-mackay-mackeracher/)

"Canada, My Land"
There may be more enchanting climes
Within a southern zone;
There may be eastern Edens deckt
With charms to thee unknown;
But thou art fairest unto me,
Because thou art mine own,
Canada, my land.

More spacious plains and loftier heights
In other realms may be,
And mightier streams than those which bear
Thy waters to the sea;
But thou, great handiwork of God,
Art grandest unto me,
Canada, my land.

More glorious records may adorn
The annals of the past
Than those which tell the rise and growth
Of thy dominion vast;
But I am proudest of the land
In which my lot is cast,
Canada, my land.

by W. M. Mackeracher
Librivox is a wonderful source of public domain poems, fiction and non-fiction. https://librivox.org/