Metropolitan

Metropolitan was destined for greatness - at least in the mind of John Donaldson, the local schoolteacher at S.S. #4. Donaldson, a devout teetotaller, was inspired by the construction of a temperance hall on the opposite corner from the school building. Gazing at the temperance hall from the school windows across the road, Donaldson envisioned a great, progressive, enlightened and dry metropolis rising from the fields of this tiny farming hamlet. He dubbed the budding settlement 'Metropolitan' and the name stuck.