The main communities in Lambton Shores are
Arkona,
Forest,
Grand Bend,
Port Franks and
Thedford. Smaller communities include Cedarview, Glendale Beach, Kettle and Stoney Point, Ipperwash Beach, Lake Valley Grove, Jericho, Jura, Kinnaird, Northville, Ravenswood, Southcott Pines, Springvale, Sunnidale, Walden Place and Walker Woods. The administrative offices of the township are located in Thedford.
Arkona Arkona is a community located in the municipality of
Lambton Shores in
southwestern Ontario near the
Lambton–
Middlesex county line, situated beside the
Ausable River, on
Former Kings Highway 79 (now Lambton County Road 79), Arkona is roughly halfway between
Thedford, and
Watford.
Forest Forest is situated on what was once dense forest. When the
Grand Trunk Railway was built through where the town now sits, the station was named for the dense forest. Hickory Creek, which meanders through the town, provided water for the station in those days when wood and water were essential to the operation of steam locomotives.
Grand Bend The settlement began in the 1830s when a group of English and
Scottish settlers bought lots from the
Canada Company, a land development firm. One of the original settlers, Benjamin Brewster gave his name to the village after he and his business partner David Smart secured rights to dam the
Ausable River and started a sawmill in 1832. The villagers were mainly the families of the millhands and fisherman. Their homesteads were situated on the south side of the present village.
Thedford Thedford is a small community in northwestern
Lambton County, Ontario Canada, situated 8 km south of
Kings Highway 21, along Lambton CR 79 (
Former Kings Highway 79). The community began in the 1860s when farmer
Nelson Southworth, a native of
Vermont, agreed to donate land for the construction of a
Grand Trunk Railway station, with the condition that he would be able to name it. Southworth chose the name "Thetford", as a way of honouring
Thetford, Vermont, a community in his home state in the United States. A local clerk's poor hand writing was mistaken for the current spelling, which is how it first appeared on official records. The Thedford Raiders Hockey Team once held the World Record for Longest Continuous Hockey Game, which was also a fundraiser for juvenile diabetes. A plaque at the entrance of the town heralds it as the "Onion Capital of Canada". A
designated place within the municipality of
Lambton Shores, Thedford had a population of 822 in the
Canada 2006 Census. Thedford telephone numbers start with 519-296. == Demographics ==