Welcome to the Albion Bolton Historical Society website. The Society is dedicated to preserving, researching, documenting and telling the history of the old Township of Albion and specifically the village of Bolton.
Annual General Meeting &
Members and Guests Show & Tell
February 9, 2026 at 7:30 P.M.
The meeting will begin with our short Annual General Meeting (AGM) followed by a members and guests Show & Tell. You are invited to bring something of local historical interest. Please call or email Nathan Hiller at nhillerphoto@bell.net or 905-584-2801 if you are planning to bring an item in order that the meeting agenda may be completed.
Many of our 2025 executive have put their names forward for the 2026 year in their current roles but we’re short a secretary and a director. Please consider sharing your local knowledge, skills and ideas by volunteering. Please contact Nathan for more details. He can be reached at nhillerphoto@bell.net or 905-584-2801.
Memberships are due for the 2026 season and will remain at $10 per person and guests attending meetings are asked to pay $5 per visit.
The George Bolton Commemorative Plaque
ALBION BOLTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY has unveiled a bronze plaque commemorating GEORGE BOLTON as part of its 50thAnniversary events. This is the first memorial within our community to the man who founded Bolton Ontario. The unveiling took place on October 5th, 2024 in Bolton Mill Park which forms part of George Bolton’s two-hundred-acre land purchase in 1821.
Unveiling the plaque were Bolton family descendants Darlene Moffatt and Fiona Barrie, 7th generation nieces who are part of George’s extended family, from his brother James Bolton and sisters Maria Bolton Fuller and Rachel Bolton Godbolt, all three of whom settled in Albion Township. They were joined at the event by several members of Council: Mario Russo, Cosimo Napoli, Tony Rosa and Doug Maskell.
The plaque is mounted on the Bolton Bicentennial Rock which marks the position of George Bolton’s original 1822 mill dam.
The earthen dam which stretched from the valley wall across the Humber River to Mill Street was heavily reinforced with timber beams. The dam allowed George to harness the water power provided by the Humber which, in turn, drove the wheel in his grist mill which sat at the bend in Mill Street. The mill was grinding grain into flour by 1824, marking the beginning of Bolton’s industrial origins. It was also the first mill in the Town of Caledon. By then, George was 25.Other notable firsts to George’s credit include providing the area’s first school in 1830, building the first general store in 1831 and running the first post
office within Caledon in 1832. But George’s perseverance in creating ‘forced roads’ into the river valley so farmers could gain access to his mill is his most enduring contribution: King Street to the east, Glasgow Road to the west, Centennial Drive to the north.
Creation of this bronze plaque has been made possible by the support of James Dick Construction, a Caledon Council Community Golf Tournament Grant and donations from individual Albion Bolton Historical Society members.