(Rokeby Line between Kimball Road and Waubuno Road)

Originally known as Lyndoch, Colinville was so renamed in honour of a pioneer settler, Colin McDiarmid.  The post office opened Apr. 6, 1852 on Lot 14, Con. 9 Moore.  In 1866, Colinville was already home to a school (School Section #7 Moore), Templars’ lodge, shoemaker, postmaster, sawyer and blacksmith/wagon maker.  By 1882, with a population of 100, another blacksmith and shoemaker had been added, as well as a cheese factory and flour mill.   Grace Episcopal Church was built in 1856 by a parish formed in 1848.  Services were held only until 1887 and the building was demolished in 1918.  The post office closed March 1, 1914.  Landmarks remaining of Colinville are the Grace Episcopal Cemetery and a newly installed granite marker for S. S. #7. 

Sources:

Belden’s Illustrated Historical Atlas of the County of Lambton, Ontario, 1880, Edited and Published With Additions by Edward Phelps.  Sarnia, Ont.:  Phelps, 1973.

Johnston, A. J.  Lambton County Names and Places.  [s.l.]:  Lambton County Council, 1925, revised 1942, second edition.

Smith, George L. (ed.).  A Compendium of Commercial Directories of Lambton County 1859 – 1900.  Bright’s Grove, Ont.:  Smith, 1984.