(St. Clair Parkway at LaSalle Line)

Also spelled Froomfield, this hamlet derives its name from Froome and Field Talfourd.  Froome purchased property, which had a flour mill established thereon, from Richard Bertrand in 1834.  His brother Field purchased a nearby property from a government sale.  Froome became well established in Moore, farming and carrying on business, and serving on the first Moore Township council in 1850.  In 1854 Froome accepted an appointment as Visiting Superintendent of Indians.  Field, however, found himself ill-suited to farming and left Moore Township.  He became well known as a portrait painter.

In 1864, Froomefield’s main enterprise was the sale of wood to steamboats and a steam sawmill.  By 1877, it boasted a population of 50 and had added a baker and merchant.  The riverfront cemetery originally belonged to St. Mary’s Anglican Church which had been built on Froome’s property in the 1840s. 

Sources:

Lauriston, Victor.  Lambton County’s Hundred Years 1849 – 1949.  Sarnia, Ontario:  Haines Frontier Printing, 1949.

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