"It is fitting that Hockley started with the building of a hotel and stables by John McFarlane in 1837. That
entrepreneurial spirit, embodying as it did an offer of hospitality and shelter, has been a characteristic of
this community ever since.

Nestled peacefully in the valley which has come to bear its name, Hockley Village is a walk through time.
Mills, a shoe factory, a blacksmith, general store, the post office, the schools, the churches - each has 
been  here when needed.

Your well-kept homes and gardens honour yourselves and your community. Nature honours us all with
its magnificent display of colours in fall which are seen here as in few other places. The valley farms
provide a pleasant backdrop for the life sought by so many who are not farmers.

Hockley has been fortunate in its people. You have treated the valley gently. The hills which must have
reminded so many of the early settlers of the homes they had left, give testimony to a land that does not
easily yield. They have bred a population which mirrors their attributes of strength and stability.

Two rivers, the Humber and the Credit, flow south to Lake Ontario from your borders. From the same
height of land, the Nottawasaga starts its journey to Georgian Bay. Your hills reach out as part of the
Niagara Escarpment. An old Indian trail is now the route of the valley road. Very few indeed are Ontario
communities which can boast such communion with nature and man.

The future is linked to the past by today. Today's citizens of this community are its guarantee of a
bright future."

                                                                                       The Honourable David Peterson