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PERAMBULATING THROUGH ESQUESING'S BASE LINE COMMUNITIES MILTON HEIGHTS Divine Service and Sunday School as Usual at Milton Heights (Terra Cotta) - There are only two houses where there is scarlet fever and the cases are light. As the houses are under strict quarantine it is not thought necessary to discontinue services." This February 1911, notice in the Canadian Champion shows the original name of Milton Heights to be Terra Cotta. Writer G. Mel Robinson, did some searching and found that the Toronto Brick and Terra Cotta Company had opened here and used the old "upper brickyards" or "Lewis brickyard" which was located along the Canadian Pacific Railway a little further west of the bigger Milton pressed brick. The Halton Tvseedsmuir History notes that these brickyards closed in 1906. This settlement was built up by workers at the upper brick yards and the name of the industry was applied to it. As with many of our communities, the name had to be changed because the Post Office Department would not allow duplication. Mr. Robinson found that Terra Cotta was to get a post office in 1911, but had to change it's name. Milton Heights was chosen. Milton Heights children travelled up to 5 Sideroad to attend school at Ligny School house until 1917, when SS # 17 was created, locating a school right in the village. Sources: Canadian Champion, 16 Nov. 1977; Halton District Women's Institute's History of Halton County; John Mark Rowe. Peru was a once thriving village situated on the First Line on Lots 2 and 3, where the Sixteen Mile Creek crosses :he road. It once had a saw mill, a tannery and a large ashery and soap factory owned by the Center Brothers. The Esquesing Historical Society newsletter - Nov. - Dec. 1995 2