84-566: Ashcroft may refer to: Places [ edit ] Ashcroft, British Columbia , a village in Canada Ashcroft House in Bagpath , Gloucestershire, England—eponym of the Canadian village Ashcroft, New South Wales , a suburb of Sydney, Australia Ashcroft, Colorado , a former U.S. mining town, south of Aspen Ashcroft (Geneva, New York) ,
168-500: A "masjid" ( mosque ) or " surau " , paddy fields and Malay houses on stilts . Malay and Indonesian villagers practice the culture of helping one another as a community, which is better known as "joint bearing of burdens" ( gotong royong ). They are family-oriented (especially the concept of respecting one's family [particularly the parents and elders]), courtesy and practice belief in God ( "Tuhan" ) as paramount to everything else. It
252-410: A scow drowned when it capsized. In 1907, the crossing opened. That year, Ike Decker, acting deputy in the absence of the constable, was killed just downstream in a gunfight with two outlaws passing in a boat. In 1916–17, the washed-out bridge was replaced. In 1918, a larger ferry replaced the smaller one, assumedly when the bridge was out. In 1929, the bridge was almost lost to fire. In 1932,
336-602: A 238-metre (780 ft) concrete and steel bridge was completed. The badly rotted former bridge was dynamited. Herded cattle were usually hesitant to cross the new bridge. In 1969–70, the bridge sidewalk was widened. In 1991, the present bridge opened. In summer 1884, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) built a log bunkhouse and station at the new townsite. The structure was the standard-design (Bohi's Type 5) single-storey station building with gable roof and dormers (identical to Keefers ). In early December,
420-569: A Northern Crown Bank branch opened. In 1913, the Lady Minto, the first hospital, opened. In 1914, when BCX lost the mail contract, stage services ceased, but two steamboats remained in operation. The completion of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTP) in 1914, which connected Prince George and the coast, further reduced the BCX traffic at Ashcroft, leading to a sharp decline in business and
504-508: A bridge across the Thompson and a road connection to the Cariboo road took place during 1884 to 1886. The 201.7-metre (661 ft 8 in) structure comprised six spans. When the 1894 flood took out the bridge, a rowboat was used until a proper cable ferry was installed. In 1895, a new bridge was completed. During the replacement of the bridge in 1906, three of the five construction workers on
588-530: A city ( ciudad ), typically located in a rural environment. While commonly it is the smallest administrative unit ( municipio ), it is possible for a village to be legally composed of smaller population units in its territory. There is not a clear-cut distinction between villages, towns and cities in Spain, since they had been traditionally categorized according to their religious importance and their relationship with surrounding population units. Villages are more usual in
672-400: A few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas , the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings ; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement . In
756-502: A few thousand residents, were usually larger than a typical selo in central Russia. In Ukraine , a village, ( Ukrainian : село , romanized : selo , IPA: [selo] ), is considered the lowest administrative unit. Villages are under the jurisdiction of a hromada administration. There is another smaller type of rural settlement which is designated in Ukrainian as a selyshche ( селище ). This type of community
840-850: A historic house Ashcroft Technology Academy , a secondary school in London, UK People [ edit ] Catherine Ashcroft , English musician (Irish Folk) Charlie Ashcroft , English footballer Chloe Ashcroft , British television presenter Christina Ashcroft (born 1964), Canadian sport shooter Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki , British occultist Edgar Arthur Ashcroft (1864–1938), invented zinc extraction process in Australia Ernest Ashcroft (b. 1925), English professional rugby league footballer Lee Ashcroft , English footballer Lee Ashcroft (footballer, born 1993) , Scottish footballer Jay Ashcroft , American politician Jimmy Ashcroft , English footballer John Ashcroft ,
924-609: A land area of 50.86 km (19.64 sq mi), it had a population density of 32.8/km (85.0/sq mi) in 2021. Religious groups in Ashcroft included: Ashcroft has a dry semi-arid climate ( Köppen climate classification BSk ). Ashcroft is frequently one of the hottest places in BC in the summer and has the second highest temperature ever recorded in Canada. It also has short, moderate winters with light snowfall. Parts of Ashcroft along
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#17328375049491008-414: A part of a municipality are called frazione , whereas the village that hosts the municipal seat is called paese (town) or capoluogo . A non-profit private association of small Italian towns of strong historical and artistic interest named I Borghi più belli d'Italia (English: The most beautiful Villages of Italy ) and affiliated to the international association The Most Beautiful Villages in
1092-472: A senior high grade to become the Senior High-Elementary School. The implementation of the 1945 Cameron Report created School District 30 Ashcroft. In 1950, the four-classroom Ashcroft High School opened. Rooms were later added. In 1956, the district rename was School District 30 South Cariboo. The school at the south end became known as Coppervale Elementary. The school closed in 1988 and
1176-529: A sister town of Bifuka, Hokkaido , delegations visited each town in 2013 and 2014 respectively. When the former Ashcroft Elementary School was vacated in 2015, the HUB repurposed the building as a community centre. In 2016, the post office, which was built in 1980, received an interior remodelling. In 2017, the Elephant Hill wildfire burned on the east side of the river from about 3 kilometres (2 mi) southwest of
1260-551: A surname All pages with titles containing Ashcroft Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Ashcroft . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ashcroft&oldid=1148397144 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
1344-405: A village around the lord's manor, a Cossack family often lived on its own farm, called khutor . A number of such khutors plus a central village made up the administrative unit with a center in a stanitsa ( Russian : станица , romanized : stanitsa ; Ukrainian : станиця , romanized : stanytsya , lit. 'stanytsia'). Such stanitsas , often with
1428-611: A village is ves ( Polish : wieś, wioska ; Czech : ves, vesnice ; Slovak : ves ; Slovene : vas ; Russian : весь , romanized : ves ). In Slovenia , the word selo is used for very small villages (fewer than 100 people) and in dialects; the Slovene word vas is used all over Slovenia . In Russia and Bulgaria , the word ves is archaic, but remains in idioms and locality names, such as Vesyegonsk and Belevehchevo . The most commonly used word for village in Slovak
1512-447: Is Il fascino dell'Italia nascosta ("The charm of hidden Italy"). As of November 2023, 361 villages in Italy have been listed in "The Most Beautiful Villages of Italy". In Spain, a village ( pueblo ) refers to a small population unit, smaller than a town ( villa [an archaic term that survives only in official uses, such as the official name of Spain's capital, "la Villa de Madrid"]) and
1596-642: Is dedina (dialectical also dzedzina ). The word's etymology may be (or may not be) rooted in the verb dediť ("to inherit"), referencing the inheriting of whole villages or properties within villages by noblemen or wealthy landowners. Another etymology could be related to the Sanskrit word deśá ( देश ) similar to the Afghan deh , Bengal desh and Indonesian desa . The term ves appears in settlement names (mostly villages, but also some towns that evolved over time from villages). The dialect term for village in east Slovakia
1680-422: Is 11%. It also stated that the state of the environment in the small towns and villages is good apart from the low level of infrastructure. In Bulgaria, it is popular to visit villages for the atmosphere, culture, crafts, hospitality of the people and the surrounding nature. This is called selski turizam ( Bulgarian : селски туризъм ), meaning "village tourism". In Russia, as of the 2010 Census , 26.3% of
1764-501: Is Yiddish, derived from the word shtot (town) with the suffix -l , a diminutive . Shtetlekh first began to appear in the 13th century, and were characteristic aspects of Jewish life in central and Eastern Europe until the 1940s. The shtetl occupies an important place in Jewish collective memory (particularly the history of Ashkenazi Jews) and has been depicted extensively in literature, visual art, theatre, and film, including such examples as
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#17328375049491848-420: Is administered according to traditions and customary law ( adat ), while a kelurahan is administered along more "modern" principles. Desa are generally located in rural areas while kelurahan are generally urban subdivisions. A village head is respectively called kepala desa or lurah . Both are elected by the local community. A desa or kelurahan is the subdivision of a kecamatan (district), in turn
1932-464: Is also valal (or valala ). Dedina is unrelated to the rarer east Slavic term derevna , which refers to a village with wooden ( derevo ) housing. In Bulgaria , the different types of sela vary from a small selo of 5 to 30 families to one of several thousand people. According to a 2002 census, in that year there were 2,385,000 Bulgarian citizens living in settlements classified as villages . A 2004 Human Settlement Profile on Bulgaria conducted by
2016-586: Is common for Vietnamese villagers to prefer to be buried in their village upon death. Selo ( Cyrillic : село; Polish : sioło ) is a Slavic word meaning "village" in Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Croatia , North Macedonia , Russia , Serbia , and Ukraine . For example, there are numerous sela (села; plural of selo ) called Novo Selo (Ново Село, "New Village") in Bulgaria , Croatia , Montenegro , Serbia , and North Macedonia . Another Slavic word for
2100-657: Is common to see a cemetery near the mosque. In Sarawak and East Kalimantan , some villages are called 'long', primarily inhabited by the Orang Ulu . Malaysian kampung were once aplenty in Singapore but there are almost no remaining kampung villages; the very few to have survived until today are mostly on outlying islands surrounding mainland Singapore, such as Pulau Ubin . Mainland Singapore used to have many kampung villages but modern developments and rapid urbanisation works have seen them bulldozed away; Kampong Lorong Buangkok
2184-489: Is compulsory for the Muslim pupils in the country, a mosque, and a community centre ( Malay : balai raya or dewan kemasyarakatan ). In Indonesia , depending on the principles they are administered, villages are called kampung or desa (or kelurahan for those with urban functions). A desa (a term that derives from a Sanskrit word meaning "country" that is found in the name " Bangladesh "= bangla and desh/desha )
2268-681: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ashcroft, British Columbia Ashcroft is a village municipality that straddles the Thompson River in the Thompson Country region of south central British Columbia , Canada. East of BC Highway 1 and on BC Highway 97C , the locality is by road about 45 kilometres (28 mi) north of Spences Bridge and 11 kilometres (7 mi) south of Cache Creek . Established by brothers Clement Francis Cornwall and Henry Pennant Cornwall in 1862,
2352-517: Is locally known by the Malay word kampung (also spelt as kampong ). They may be villages in the traditional or anthropological sense but may also comprise delineated residential settlements, both rural and urban. The community of a village is headed by a village head ( Malay : ketua kampung ). Communal infrastructure for the villagers may include a primary school, a religious school providing ugama or Islamic religious primary education which
2436-634: Is marked by kinship and exchange relations. Auyl ( Kazakh : Ауыл ) is a Kazakh word meaning "village" in Kazakhstan . According to the 2009 census of Kazakhstan, 42.7% of Kazakhstani citizens (7.5 million people) live in 8172 different villages. To refer to this concept along with the word "auyl" often used the Slavic word "selo" in Northern Kazakhstan. In mainland China , villages 村 are divisions under township Zh:乡 or town Zh:镇 . In
2520-569: Is often referred to in English as a "settlement". In the new law about populated places in Ukraine the term "selyshche", has a specific meaning. In the past the word "selyshche" was more ambiguous and there were distinction between rural selyshche and selyshche miskoho typu ( urban-type settlement ), abbreviated smt in Ukrainian. There we also dacha , fisherman, etc. selyshches The khutir ( хутір ) and stanytsia ( станиця ) are not part of
2604-582: Is the last surviving village on the country's mainland. The term "kampung", sometimes spelled "kampong", is one of many Malay words to have entered common usage in Malaysia and Singapore. Locally, the term is frequently used to refer to either one's hometown or a rural village, depending on the intended context. In urban areas of the Philippines , the term "village" most commonly refers to private subdivisions, especially gated communities . These villages emerged in
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2688-485: Is very common for villagers to produce their own food. As prosperous urbanites purchase village houses for their second homes, Russian villages sometimes are transformed into dacha settlements, used mostly for seasonal residence. The historically Cossack regions of Southern Russia and parts of Ukraine , with their fertile soil and absence of serfdom , had a rather different pattern of settlement from central and northern Russia. While peasants of central Russia lived in
2772-493: Is worshiped, a common well, "đồng lúa" ( rice field), "chùa" (temple) and houses of all families in the village. All the people in Vietnam's villages usually have a blood relationship. They are farmers who grow rice and have the same traditional handicraft . Vietnam's villages have an important role in society (Vietnamese saying: "Custom rules the law" -"Phép vua thua lệ làng" [literally: the king's law yields to village customs]). It
2856-453: The 2011 census of India , 69% of Indians (around 833 million people) live in villages. As per 2011 census of India, there are a total of 649,481 villages in India .The size of these villages varies considerably. 236,004 Indian villages have a population of fewer than 500, while 3,976 villages have a population of 10,000+. Most of the villages have their own temple, mosque, or church, depending on
2940-458: The English language ) for "a Malay hamlet or village in a Malay-speaking country". In Malaysia, a kampung is determined as a locality with 10,000 or fewer people. Since historical times, every Malay village came under the leadership of a penghulu (village chief), who has the power to hear civil matters in his village (see Courts of Malaysia for more details). A Malay village typically contains
3024-550: The Lincolnshire Wolds , the villages are often found along the spring line halfway down the hillsides, and originate as spring line settlements , with the original open field systems around the village. In northern Scotland , most villages are planned to a grid pattern located on or close to major roads, whereas in areas such as the Forest of Arden , woodland clearances produced small hamlets around village greens. Because of
3108-460: The Republic of China ( Taiwan ), villages are divisions under townships or county-administered cities . The village is called a tsuen or cūn (村) under a rural township (鄉) and a li (里) under an urban township (鎮) or a county-controlled city. See also Li (unit) . In Brunei , villages are officially the third- and lowest-level subdivisions of Brunei below districts and mukims . A village
3192-601: The Russian Empire , a volost , or its Soviet or modern Russian successor, a selsoviet , was typically headquartered in a selo and embraced a few neighboring villages. In the 1960s–1970s, the depopulation of the smaller villages was driven by the central planners' drive in order to get the farm workers out of smaller, " prospectless " hamlets and into the collective or state farms ' main villages or even larger towns and cities , with more amenities. Most Russian rural residents are involved in agricultural work, and it
3276-473: The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs stated that: The most intensive is the migration "city – city". Approximately 46% of all migrated people have changed their residence from one city to another. The share of the migration processes "village – city" is significantly less – 23% and "city – village" – 20%. The migration "village – village" in 2002
3360-715: The University College of the Cariboo (UCC) established a branch within the high school. In 2000, the Thompson Valley Savings Credit Union acquired the Bank of Montreal branch operations in Ashcroft and Merritt . That year, Heritage Place Park opened. In 2001, a fire raged through a block of downtown historic wooden buildings. In 2004, Ashcroft municipal boundaries expanded to include the Ashcroft Ranch. Since coming in 2007, Marina Papais has been creating
3444-623: The administrative division any longer, primarily due to collectivization . Khutirs were very small rural localities consisting of just few housing units and were sort of individual farms. They became really popular during the Stolypin reform in the early 20th century. During the collectivization, however, residents of such settlements were usually declared to be kulaks and had all their property confiscated and distributed to others ( nationalized ) without any compensation. The stanitsa likewise has not survived as an administrative term. The stanitsa
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3528-474: The northern and central regions , Azores Islands and in the Alentejo . Most of them have a church and a "Casa do Povo" (people's house), where the village's summer romarias or religious festivities are usually held. Summer is also when many villages are host to a range of folk festivals and fairs, taking advantage of the fact that many of the locals who reside abroad tend to come back to their native village for
3612-412: The 1916. The second school, built in 1889–90, was later enlarged to a two-room facility. Around 1900, the old school was demolished and a two-storey building was erected containing two classrooms. In 1916, a third classroom was added. The building was later used as a community hall. In 1922, the four-room Lady Byng School (grades 1–12) was built at the south end of town. In 1945, the superior school added
3696-830: The 79th Attorney General of the United States under George W. Bush (2001–2005) Ken Ashcroft , Australian rugby league footballer Marcus Ashcroft , Australian rules footballer Michael Arbuthnot Ashcroft , British codebreaker in Hut 8 during WW2 Michael Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft , British businessman and member of the House of Lords Neil Ashcroft (1938–2021), condensed matter physicist Peggy Ashcroft , English actress Ray Ashcroft , English actor Richard Ashcroft , English musician, frontman for The Verve Stella Ashcroft (born 2002), New Zealand gymnast William Ashcroft , English artist See also [ edit ] Ascroft ,
3780-486: The Ashcroft area for decades. The completion of the Coquihalla Highway in 1986 diverted vehicle traffic away from BC Highway 1. In 1987, the municipal building was erected on the Lady Minto site. The 1956 wing now houses some social services. On rehabilitating the former CP construction bunkhouse, the first school was established in 1886. After the teacher left in 1887, the building was abandoned and burned down in
3864-576: The Ashcroft farm opened before 1872 but closed in 1899. Jerome Harper built a gristmill in 1877 on the west shore at the mouth of the Bonaparte River . John Craig had a ranch on that side of the Thompson. Harper, Barnes, Brink, and Craig built a wagon road from the mill to the Cariboo Road. When Brink died in 1879, his heirs received the eastern part of the partnership property and the Barnes family gained
3948-467: The BCX office closed but the building (Railway/6th) was later used as a courthouse. By that time, the opera house was primarily used as a picture theatre. Over the following decades, agriculture and a local cannery sustained the local economy. In 1923, the Royal Bank closed. The Ashcroft Cannery produced a variety of tomato products 1925–1957. Chinese gardeners dominated the tomato industry in Ashcroft to
4032-597: The Netherlands. A village in the UK is a compact settlement of houses, smaller in size than a town, and generally based on agriculture or, in some areas, mining (such as Ouston, County Durham ), quarrying or sea fishing. They are very similar to those in Ireland. The major factors in the type of settlement are: location of water sources, organization of agriculture and landholding, and likelihood of flooding. For example, in areas such as
4116-457: The Thompson River gorge are sufficiently arid to be classified as a pocket desert; this microclimate forms the only true desert in Canada. Projects that have been filmed in the area include ^x . Filmed nearby Village A village is a clustered human settlement or community , larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from
4200-684: The World , was created in 2001 on the initiative of the Tourism Council of the National Association of Italian Municipalities with the aim of preserving and maintaining villages of quality heritage. Founded to contribute to safeguarding, conserving and revitalizing small villages and municipalities, but sometimes even individual hamlets, which, being outside the main tourist circuits, they risk, despite their great value, being forgotten with consequent degradation, depopulation and abandonment. Its motto
4284-493: The arena burned down the following year. In 1977, a suspected arson destroyed a downtown block. In 1979, the movie theatre closed, but during 2005–2008 a live music and dinner theatre operated in the building. In July 1983, the Ashcroft centennial weekend took place. The new courthouse completed that year burned down in 1995. Prior to the opening of the Cache Creek Airport in 1984, various landing strips had existed in
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#17328375049494368-527: The cemetery was established. By that time, hotels and four Chinese businesses existed. Opened that year, the town hall was renamed the opera house in the later 1890s. In 1890, the gristmill closed. From the 1890s, Ashcroft potatoes were renowned throughout Canada for decades. Churches built were the Anglican in 1891, Presbyterian in 1892, and Methodist in 1897. In 1892, the Cargile Hotel again burned down and
4452-521: The concentration of people caused many villages to grow into towns and cities. This also enabled specialization of labor and crafts and the development of many trades. The trend of urbanization continues but not always in connection with industrialization. Historically, homes were situated together for sociability and defence, and land surrounding the living quarters was farmed. Traditional fishing villages were based on artisan fishing and located adjacent to fishing grounds. In toponomastic terminology,
4536-416: The country's population lives in rural localities ; down from 26.7% recorded in the 2002 Census . Multiple types of rural localities exist, but the two most common are derevnya ( деревня ) and selo ( село ). Historically, the formal indication of status was religious: a city ( gorod , город ) had a cathedral , a selo had a church, while a derevnya had neither. The lowest administrative unit of
4620-471: The earliest mention of the name Ashcroft farm was 1863. That year, the brothers opened a roadhouse. The property lay on the Cariboo Road about 3 kilometres (2 mi) due west of the river. The earliest newspaper mention of the name Ashcroft as a locality was 1865. In partnership with E.William Brink, John Christopher Barnes established a ranch in 1868 on the east shore of the river. The post office at
4704-560: The eastward advance of the CP rail head from Port Moody passed through the townsite. Initially called St. Cloud by the railway (after St. Cloud , the access point to the Red River Trails on the Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad ), the name did not last. The post office, which opened in 1886, was named Ashcroft Station. However, the settlement was equally known as Barnes. In 1960, the station
4788-610: The highway bridge to over 100 kilometres (62 mi) northeast. In May 2018, Greyhound axed the Cache Creek– Hope route. That month, the Ash-Creek TV Society discontinued its TV service to focus on its radio station CFMA at 105.9 FM. In 2021, the Legacy Park Campground upgraded all sites to 30 amp service with sewer drops and added four new tenting sites. In 2022, a new urgent and primary care centre opened at
4872-503: The histories of Jewish communities destroyed during the Holocaust. The Insee classifies French communes into four groups according to population density: A commune in Group 3 or 4 is considered as a village ( commune rurale ). An independent association named Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (affiliated to the international association The Most Beautiful Villages in the World ),
4956-425: The holidays. In the flood-prone districts of the Netherlands, particularly in the northern provinces of Friesland and Groningen, villages were traditionally built on low man-made hills called terpen before the introduction of regional dyke-systems. In modern days, the term dorp (lit. "village") is usually applied to settlements no larger than 20,000, though there's no official law regarding status of settlements in
5040-439: The hospital. Emergency services include a volunteer fire department and RCMP detachment. Ashcroft is also a retirement community. The current passenger transit provider is BC Transit, which offers a request service. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Ashcroft had a population of 1,670 living in 793 of its 876 total private dwellings, a change of 7.2% from its 2016 population of 1,558. With
5124-540: The large agricultural fair at least equalled the Kamloops one. By 1899, the population exceeded 600. The village had eight Chinese businesses, three churches, a bank, a county court, hydroelectricity, and a water supply system. In 1901, the telegraph line from Ashcroft to the Yukon was completed. By 1905, three hotels, nine stores, and government buildings at Ashcroft served the transportation hub, ranches, and mines. In 1910,
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#17328375049495208-522: The local population. In 1916, a fire which started on the second floor of the Ashcroft Hotel destroyed five blocks, including Chinatown, three hotels (Ashcroft, Grand Central, Cargile), and several businesses. The Ashcroft Hotel was rebuilt. In 1918, the branch of the Northern Crown Bank became a Royal Bank of Canada and the Bank of British North America became a Bank of Montreal . In 1920,
5292-644: The local religious following. The majority of Pakistanis live in rural areas. According to the 2017 census , about 64% of the Pakistani population lives in rural areas. Most rural areas in Pakistan tend to be near cities, and are peri-urban areas. This is due to the definition of a rural area in Pakistan being an area that does not fall within an urban boundary. A village is called deh or gaaon in Urdu . Pakistani village life
5376-412: The mid-20th century and were initially the domain of elite urban dwellers. Those are common in major cities in the country and their residents have a wide range of income levels. Such villages may or may not correspond to a barangay (the country's basic unit of government, also glossed as village), or be privately administered. Barangays correspond more to precolonial villages; the chairman (formerly
5460-554: The municipal boundaries extended. A CIBC branch operated 1969–1985. In 1970, the Princeton-Merritt District Credit Union opened a branch. Replacing the former 29-bed facility, a 41-bed acute care hospital opened in 1972 in North Ashcroft. Fire destroyed the original part of the vacant Lady Minto building in 1981. In 1974, three guests died when the Ashcroft Hotel burned to the ground. Opened in 1975,
5544-697: The name like " Srinagar "= sri and nagar/nagari ). In some areas such as Tanah Toraja, elders take turns watching over the village at a command post. As a general rule, desa and kelurahan are groupings of hamlets ( kampung in Indonesian, dusun in Javanese , banjar in Bali). a kampung is defined today as a village in Brunei and Indonesia . Kampung is a term used in Malaysia , (sometimes spelling kampong or kompong in
5628-536: The names of individual villages are called Comonyms (from Ancient Greek κώμη / village and ὄνυμα / name, [cf. ὄνομα]). From Middle English village , from Old French village , from Latin villāticus , ultimately from Latin villa (English villa ). In Afghanistan, the village, or deh ( Dari / Pashto : ده) is the mid-size settlement type in Afghan society, trumping the United States hamlet or qala ( Dari : قلعه, Pashto : کلي), though smaller than
5712-448: The past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain , a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church . In many cultures, towns and cities were few, with only a small proportion of the population living in them. The Industrial Revolution attracted people in larger numbers to work in mills and factories;
5796-477: The point that there were no Euro-Canadian growers in the area in 1926. In the early 1930s, Greyhound began a Nelson –Ashcroft service. The hospital building was extended in 1938 and 1956. Greyhound acquired in 1943 the I.T. (Interior Transportation) stage route stretching to the north Cariboo. The next year, the Brown triplets were born. The Village of Ashcroft was incorporated in 1952. The Roman Catholic church
5880-476: The region and the settlement's market rights. Smaller villages usually do not have their own government. Instead, they are part ( Ortsteil ) of the municipality of a nearby town. In Italy, villages are spread throughout the country. No legal definition of village exists in Italian law; nonetheless, a settlement inhabited by less than 2000 people is usually described as "village". More often, Italian villages that are
5964-406: The school closed in 2015. In 1973, the new Ashcroft Secondary School opened in north Ashcroft. A female teacher, who sexually exploited two students during 1987–1989, received a one-year prison sentence. In 1996, School Districts 29 and 30 amalgamated to form School District 74 Gold Trail . In 2015, the high school was reconfigured as the Desert Sands Community School (grades K–12). In 1993,
6048-489: The site sold for redevelopment in 1994. During 1983–1985, the school principal sexually abused seven minors to which he later pleaded guilty. He was designated a dangerous offender and received an indeterminate prison sentence in 1986, but obtained work release in 1998 and full parole in 2003. In December 1962, the two-room Ashcroft Elementary (grades 6–7) opened in North Ashcroft. In 1965, four more classrooms and an activity room were added. Expanded in 1969 (grades K–7),
6132-532: The stained-glass artworks displayed throughout the village. In 2008, BC Transit commenced a Clinton –Cache Creek–Ashcroft service. That year, ongoing First Nations opposition compelled the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) to abandon plans to succeed the Cache Creek landfill by creating a new facility on the Ashcroft Ranch site, which was acquired in 2000. Twinned in 1994 with
6216-687: The subdivision of a kabupaten (regency) or kota (city). The same general concept applies all over Indonesia. However, there is some variation among the vast numbers of Austronesian ethnic groups. For instance, in Bali villages have been created by grouping traditional hamlets or banjar , which constitute the basis of Balinese social life. In the Minangkabau area in West Sumatra province, traditional villages are called nagari (a term deriving from another Sanskrit word meaning "city", which can be found in
6300-425: The town, or shār ( Dari : شهر, Pashto : ښار). In contrast to the qala , the deh is generally a bigger settlement which includes a commercial area, while the yet larger shār includes governmental buildings and services such as schools of higher education, basic health care, police stations etc. "The soul of India lives in its villages," declared Mahatma Gandhi at the beginning of 20th century. According to
6384-508: The village datu ) now settles administrative, intrapersonal, and political matters or polices the area though with much less authority and respect than in Indonesia or Malaysia. Village, or "làng", is a basis of Vietnam society. Vietnam's village is the typical symbol of Asian agricultural production. Vietnam's village typically contains: a village gate, "lũy tre" (bamboo hedges), "đình làng" (communal house) where "thành hoàng" ( tutelary god )
6468-484: The western part. In the early 1880s, the Brink son-in-law Oliver Evans managed the family property. Evans and John Barnes built the small Thompson River Hotel at the ferry landing. In 1884, Barnes moved the hotel to opposite the train station and surveyed the townsite on his ranch. In the late 1860s, Barnes installed a ferry. In 1883, the government took over ferry operations, which continued until 1885. The construction of
6552-687: The writing of Mendele Mocher Sforim , Isaac Bashevis Singer , and Sholem Aleichem . Sholem Aleichem's Tevye the Dairyman stories, set in the fictional shtetl of Anatevka, were eventually adapted into the Fiddler on the Roof stage play (which itself was later adapted for film). During the Holocaust , most shtetlekh were depopulated of their Jewish communities through mass deportations or liquidations. Many are memorialized in yizkor books , written testimonies that describe
6636-479: Was a type of a collective community that could include one or more settlements such as villages, khutirs , and others. Today, stanitsa -type formations have only survived in Kuban ( Russian Federation ) where Ukrainians were resettled during the time of the Russian Empire . A shtetl (plural shtetlekh ) was a small market town or village with a majority Jewish population in central and eastern Europe. The word shtetl
6720-450: Was created in 1982 to promote assets of small and picturesque French villages of quality heritage. As of July 2023, 172 villages in France have been listed in "The Most Beautiful Villages of France". In Germany a Dorf (village) usually consists of at least a few houses but can have up to a few thousand inhabitants. Larger villages can also be referred to as a Flecken or Markt depending on
6804-524: Was erected in 1956. The predecessor to BC Hydro acquired the Ashcroft electricity supply system in 1953. The next year, the completion of the transmission line from Lillooet connected Ashcroft to the electricity grid. Opened in 1961, the Sands Hotel burned down in 1986. Copper mining, which supported the economy from 1962, later consolidated into the Highland Valley Copper mine . That year,
6888-530: Was rebuilt. Launched as The BC Mining Journal in 1895, the newspaper was renamed the Ashcroft Journal in 1899. The customs office operated 1897–1929. In 1898, a consortium installed electricity and water supply systems. That year, a firehall and a Bank of British North America branch opened. During that decade, the annual Ashcroft Grand Ball and the Ashcroft Teamsters Ball were renowned, and
6972-400: Was replaced. The present mobile station building dates from about 2020. The CP Ashcroft passing track is 2.6 kilometres (8,645 ft). In February 1912, the 244-metre (800 ft) Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) tunnel at Black Canyon was virtually completed. The Ashcroft flag stop, identified only by a pole in the ground, serves Via Rail 's The Canadian . Thos. G. Kirkspatrick
7056-426: Was the inaugural postmaster 1886–1888. In 1886, BC Express (BCX) relocated its headquarters to Ashcroft, and the place became Mile 0 on the Cariboo Road, where passengers and freight switched from trains to stagecoaches or freight wagons for a northward journey. In 1887, the Cargile Hotel was dismantled at Hat Creek , reassembled at Ashcroft, blown down by the wind, restored, destroyed by fire, and rebuilt. In 1889,
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