Elizabethville is a suburban community or a town located east about 90 km ENE of Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

 and SSW of Peterborough

Peterborough, Ontario

Peterborough is a city on the Otonabee River in southern Ontario, Canada, 125 kilometres northeast of Toronto. The population of the City of Peterborough was 74,898 as of the 2006 census, while the census metropolitan area has a population of 121,428 as of a 2009 estimate. It presently ranks...

. It was named after one of its first settler's wife. Newtonville, Ontario

Newtonville, Ontario

Newtonville is a community located in the Municipality of Clarington, Ontario, Canada. It is located about 30 km E of Oshawa and about 10 km west of Port Hope on the former Highway 2....

 is also about 40 km E of Oshawa

Oshawa

Oshawa is a city in Ontario, Canada, on the Lake Ontario shoreline. It lies in Southern Ontario approximately 60 kilometres east of downtown Toronto. It is commonly viewed as the eastern anchor of both the Greater Toronto Area and the Golden Horseshoe. It is now commonly referred to as the most...

 and about 25 km NW of Port Hope

Port Hope, Ontario

Port Hope is a municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada, about east of Toronto and about west of Kingston. It is located at the mouth of the Ganaraska River on the north shore of Lake Ontario, in the west end of Northumberland County...

, about 50 km SE of Lindsay

Lindsay, Ontario

Lindsay is a community of 19,361 people on the Scugog River in the Kawartha Lakes region of south-eastern Ontario, Canada. It is approximately west of Peterborough...

 north of the old highway linking Toronto and Kingston, about 1 km north of the nearest freeway (Highway 401) with its nearest interchange in Newton and with a highway linking to Lindsay (Highway 35) and Peterborough (Highway 115) at Taunton Road to the west. Newtonville is in the southeastern part of Clarington

Clarington, Ontario

Clarington is a municipality in Ontario, Canada in the Regional Municipality of Durham. It took its present name in 1994 after having been known as the Town of Newcastle from 1974-93. The name change was made to alleviate long-standing confusion between the municipality as a whole and the included...

 and was in the southeastern part of the old Clarke Township.

Elizabethville is made up of farmlands covering the southern and the western parts, the forests are situated in valleys particularly to the south, they are mixed with farmlands to the central part and the Ganaraska Forest lies north of Elizabethville and are filled with hills. At one time in the 19th century the village had a total of 7 streets, which has been scaled down to just 3.

The old Clarke fire tower that stood in the Ganaraska Forest in the 1960s was linked back to forestry headquarters near the village via 2-way radio. Disassembled, the tower now sits at the back of the Ganaraska Forest Centre.

The area code boundary with 705

Area code 705

Area codes 705 and 249 are telephone area codes that covers most of northeastern and central Ontario in Canada. 705 was initially created in 1957 by the North American Numbering Plan from portions of the area covered by area codes 613 and 519...

 is bounded to the north and east in the middle of the Ganaraska Forest.

Statistics and location

• • Latitude: about 44.024 (44°1'30") N
  • Longitude: about 78.533 (78°32'0") W
• Area code: +(00)1-905, overlays with (00)1-249

External links

• Map showing Elizabethville in the late 1800's when there were 7 streets
• Map and aerial photos
  • Street Map: Street map from Mapquest, MapPoint or Google
  • Satellite images: Google
• Coordinates: 44°1′30"N 78°30′0"W