Paisley, Ontario

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Paisley is now an unincorporated community, a village in the Municipality of Arran-Elderslie in Bruce County, Ontario, Canada. Paisley is defined by its position at the confluence of the Saugeen River and the Thomas O'Hagan in Canadian PoetsTeeswater River, and at the junction of Bruce Roads 1, 11, and 3.

History
Paisley began, with the settlement in 1851 of Simon Orchard and Samuel T. Rowe at the site of what would become the village of Paisley.

Isabella Valancy Crawford, who has been called "Canada's first major poet," lived in Paisley as a girl. Her family moved there in 1857 when Crawford was three. However, "In a few years, disease had taken nine of the twelve children, and a small medical practice had reduced the family to semi-poverty."

Isabella's father, Dr. Stephen Crawford, was elected Treasurer of Paisley Township. However, "a scandal of a missing $500 in misappropriated Township funds and the subsequent suicide of one of his bondsmen" caused the family to leave Paisley for good in 1861.

Poet Thomas O'Hagan also grew up near the village of Paisley.