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Education

Near the village is Lakefield College School which Prince Andrew (later Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor) attended in 1977, however was dropped as an honorary chairman due to sexual abuse allegations. In the village itself is the Lakefield District Public School, which opened in 2018 after the Ridpath Junior Public School, named after James William Ridpath, publisher in the late 19th century and early 20th century of the Lakefield News, local businessman, sportsman and dignitary, was closed. LDPS took over the building formerly used for the now closed Lakefield District Secondary School. St. Paul's Catholic School is situated nearby.

In Paul Nicholas Mason's novel Battered Soles (2005), Mason's second novel, The Red Dress (2008),

In film

  • Lakefield and Lakefield College School were used as the location for the 1977 Canadian film Age of Innocence. One memorable scene
  • In the
  • Unheralded (2011), a National Film Board documentary directed by Aaron Hancox,

Notable people

  • Charles Arkoll Boulton, former councillor and reeve, left Ontario and later became senator for Manitoba
  • Sebastian Bach, rock singer, notable for being the lead singer of the band Skid Row
  • Ronnie "The Hawk" Hawkins, American-born Canadian country musician
  • Margaret Laurence, novelist
  • Leahy Family, band
  • Susanna Moodie, pioneer, writer and newspaper editor
  • Paul Nicholas Mason, writer
  • Paul Reddick, blues-rock artist, songwriter, and harp player
  • Bruce Ridpath, professional ice hockey player who played on the 1911 Stanley Cup champion Ottawa Senators
  • Catharine Parr Traill, English-born pioneer, writer, naturalist
  • Mike Fisher, professional hockey player for the Nashville Predators, grew up in Bridgenorth
  • Paul Soles, Canadian actor, television personality and voice actor famous for being the voice of Hermey in Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer and Spider-man in the 1960s
  • Thomas Toth, Canadian runner
  • Tyler Ardron, Canadian international rugby player, Super Rugby player (Waikato Chiefs), ITM Cup player (Bay of Plenty)
  • Trevor Jones, Canadian rower

See also

  • List of townships in Ontario

References