The village of Hawkesville in Ontario, Canada is a small community in the township of Wellesley in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo.

[1] John Hawke received government permission to buy the Schweitzer clearing for $700.00 on the condition that he build a grist mill (for flour) and a sawmill within two years.

When the decision was being made for the location of a county seat, Hawkesville originally anticipated being chosen over Berlin and Galt.

[citation needed] Records from 1864 indicate that the community of about 400 people had three stores, two woolen factories, a tannery, two wagon makers and some tradesmen.

[2] Into the early 1900s, the village Carriage and wagon maker, George M. Diefenbacker (his preferred spelling) would entertain his grandson each summer, the late Prime Minister John G.

Another group started meeting in 1931 and completed the building of a Gospel Hall next door to the village's cemetery in 1939.

[4] Hawkesville is home to several small and medium size businesses including the larger Frey Building Contractors and the Country Lane Builders.

Located in the Kitchener-Conestoga electoral riding, Hawkesville was represented in Ottawa, from 2006 to 2019, by the Conservative Member of Parliament, Harold Albrecht.

Waterloo-Wellington Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society Dick, J. and Longo, M. Heritage Driving Tour of Wellesley Township.