Eramosa

The Eramosa River flows south-west through wooded country to join the Speed, a tributary of the Grand River. Its name is thought to derive from an Indigenous word for a dog. In 1821 John Harris settled near the river and built a mill, while land in the surrounding township began to be opened to settlers. In 1827 the Canada Company's John Galt founded Guelph near the meeting of the Eramosa and Speed, and helped resettle Scottish emigrants whose earlier attempt to establish themselves in Venezuela had failed.