History Of Ontario - Essa Township / Kempenfeldt - Nottawsaga River (the Swamp)

TECUMSETH, ONTARIO

SETTLER Con. Lot

ABERNETHY, John 3 13
AAGNEW, William 1 8
ANDERSON, Jos'h 5 11
AUGER, Frederick 5 17 (N1/2)
ARMATAGE, Joseph 1 21
ARMSTRONG, Wm. 8 19
ARMSTRONG, James 7 22 (S1/2)
ARMSTRONG, Philip 9 21
ARMSTRONG, John 14 18 (S1/2)
ATKINSON, Wm. 2 8
ATKINSON, Jonathan 6 10
AUSMAN, Jacob 5 19
AUSMAN, Philip 5 18
AUSMAN, Conrad 5 19
AUSMAN, John 4 18
AUSTIN, John 5 9 (E1/2)
AUSTIN, Alexander 5 9 (W1/2)
BAINBRIDGE, Francis 8 21 (S1/2)
BATEMAN, Joseph 4 4 (NE1/4)
BATTERS, Richard 6 21
BAYCROFT, George 9 19 (W1/2)
BEARD, William 8 16 (Pt)
BEATY, John 14 20
BELL, John 7 20
BIGELOW, Hiram 9 21
BLACK, Thomas 6 19
BOYNTON, Elijah 1 21
BROOKS, Jonathan 6 22 (S1/2)
BROOKS, John 6 21 (S1/2)
BROOKS, Jane 6 24
BRAWLEY, Charles 4 6
BRAZELL, Patrick 6 24 (N Pt)
BROWN, John 3 14
BROWNLEE, James 2 5
CALHOUN, Thomas 6 2 (N1/2)
CALHOUN, William 7 2
CALLAGHAN, James 4 3 (N1/2)
CALLAGHAN, Richard 9 24 (S Pt)
CARSWELL, Andrew 4 24 (N Pt)
CARSWELL, John 7 23
CARTER, Edward 8 23
CARTER, William 8 23
CASEY, Owen 3 4
CHAMNEY, Wm. 8 13
CLARK, George 3 8
CLARK, George 1 23
CLARK, Robert 2 23
CLIVER, Jesse 1 21 (Oliver ?)
CLUNIS, George 6 13
COADY, James 10 23
COFFEY, John 4 22 (E1/2)
COFFEY, Gilbert 4 21 (N1/2)
COLLARD, Elijah 4 11
COLGEN, John 5 1 (Colgan)
CONNELLY, Edward 7 20
CONNELLY, Neal 2 3
CONNER, John 2 18
COOMER, Peter 9 21
COOK, Thomas 14 23
CORBITT, Andrew 1 7 (S.W1/4)
COSFORD, John 1 22 (N1/2)
COTTON, Robert 7 5
COULTER, Robert 4 20
COURTNEY, Jas 5 20
COURTNEY, John 4 17 (N Pt)
CROSS, Robert 12 24
CURRAN, John 3 6
CURRY, James 1 5
DALE, George 2 13 (S1/2)
DALE, John 3 15
DALE, Thomas 2 17 (N Pt)
DAVIS, Richard 5 8
DAVIS, Samuel 1 20
DEAN, Hoseal 2 22
DELANE, Lawrence 10 20
DEVLIN, John 5 8
DICKEY, William 10 24
DILLANE, John 4 10 (N1/2)
DINWOODY, Hugh 14 16
DIXON, John 1 13
DOAN, James 7 24
DOYLE, John 1 18
DOYLE, Peter 3 24
DOYLE, Bernard 1 18
DOYLE, Patrick 1 17
DOYLE, James 1 15
DOYLE, James 3 16
DOYLE, Hugh 3 19
DOUTHWAITE, George 2 13
DUNHAM, Joseph 3 18
DUNNING, Adam 4 1
DUNNING, Thomas 4 17
DUFF, Robert 13 16
DUFF, Thomas 14 16 (S1/2)
EGAN, Nicholas 3 4
ELLIS, James 5 16 (S1/2)
ELLISON, Daniel 5 17
ELLISON, James 2 8 (SE1/4)
ERWIN, Thomas 3 20
EVANS, David 7 16 (W1/2)
EVANS, Cadwalder 7 12
EVANS, Selby 7 9 (N1/2)
FAREL, Andrew 3 3
FERRIS, John 10 21 (N1/2)
FERRIS, William 9 24 (N Pt)
FEEHEELEY, Patrick 2 2
FERGUSON, Isabella 2 24
FERGUSON, William 6 13
FERGUSON, John 1 24
FLETCHER, William 14 3
FLETCHER, Thomas 14 2
GARDINER, John 15 21
GRAHAM, John 14 16 (N1/2)
GILROY, William 9 23 (W1/2)
GRAHAM, Edward 13 23
GRAHAM, William 8 20
GRAY, James 2 19
GRAY, Richard 8 22
GREENAWAY, Alex 4 6
GUMBERSON, Erin 2 12
GUMBERSON, Thomas 5 21
HALL, William 4 12
HAMMILL, Patrick 6 3
HAMMIL, Wm. Sr. 8 7 (N Pt)
HAMMILL, Wm. Jr. 4 4
HAMMILL, James 8 6
HAMMILL, Henry 8 21
HAMILTON, James 9 19
HAMNER, William 1 6 (NE1/4)
HAMPTON, William 4 15
HAWKE, John 2 19
HAWKE, Benjamin 1 20
HAWKE, Gabriel 1 23
HAYES, George 4 7
HAYES, Thomas 4 7
HEADEN, Thomas 10 21
HEASTY, James 11 18 (S1/2)
HILL, James 11 24 (SE Pt)
HILL, William 5 20
HILL, Arthur 11 23
HILL, John 6 18
HIGDAYS, William 4 19
HODGES, Jonathan 3 16
HODGKINSON, Wm. 14 12 (S1/2)
HOGLAN, E. 6 6
HOLLINGSHEAD, Wm. 4 13 (S1/2)
HUGHES, E. 2 17
HUGHES, Levi 2 17 (S1/2)
HUGHES, Thomas 3 2 (N1/2)
HUGHES, Patrick 2 17
HURST, Thomas 8 16 (S1/2)
JEANINGS, Benjamin 2 20
JONES, William 7 18
JORDAN, John 2 10
JORDAN, L. 2 10
KEATING, Richard 11 19 (S1/2)
KEENA, Thomas 1 3
KEOUGH, Owen 7 1
KEOUGH, Peter 7 2 (S1/2)
KIRKPATRICK, And. 9 19 (E1/2)
KING, Moses 2 8
KITELY, John 3 24 (N Pt)
LANGRILL, Wm. 7 6
LAW, William 11 24 (SW Pt)
LEOPARD, Henry 1 16
LEWIS, Geo. R. 7 20
LONG, William 14 23 (N1/2)
LOW, Richard, 2 6
LOWRY, Robert 13 24
LOWRY, John 1 3
LUNDY, Jeremiah 1 19
MANNING, William 2 24 (S1/2)
MANNING, James, Sr. 5 24
MANNING, James, Jr. 2 22 (E1/2)
MARTIN, Daniel 4 19
MARTIN, Robert 4 9
MEARS, William 9 22 (SE1/4)
MESSERMAN, John 2 24
MILLIGAN, James 2 9 (S1/2)
MILLIGAN, John 5 14 (S1/2)
MILLIGAN, Thomas 3 9 (N1/2)
MILLORY, Peter 4 5
MITCHELL, James 2 7 (S1/2)
MONAGHAN, Patrick 10 19 (N1/2)
MONKMAN, William 3 17
MOORE, John 8 19
MOORE, Hugh 8 19
MORRIS, Edward 4 8
MORROW, Goeorge 6 2 (S1/2)
MORROW, Francis 6 1
MULLOY, John 8 6
MURRAY, Alexander 6 9
McBRIDE, James 6 1
McBURNIE, David 6 23 (N1/2)
McCANN, Thomas 14 17
McCARTY, William 7 1
McCARTY, Hiram 8 2
McCORMACK, Moses 3 12
McDERMOTT, Neil 6 14
McDERMOTT, John 6 15
McDERMOTT, James 8 18
McGOEY, Thomas 2 2 (N1/2)
McGOEY, Michael 1 7 (NW1/4)
McLAUCHLIN, James 5 16
McLAUCHLAN, John 4 8
McLEAN, John 11 24 (NE Pt)
McLENNAN, Hugh 12 11
McMAHAN, Robert 2 8
McMAGHAN, Patrick 4 3 (S1/2)
McMEIGHAN, Isaac 5 17
McQUONE, James 6 16
McCURDY, Daniel 5 13
NELSON, John 7 8 (N1/2)
NOLAN, Henry 2 23
PEARSON, Joshua 5 7
PENFIELD, Adna 4 18
PHILLIPS, Philip 8 21
POOLE, Jacob 3 18
POOLE, William 1 8
RAMSEY, Geo. G. 8 19 (S1/2)
RAMSAY, William 9 16
REILLY, James 5 4
REILLY, Henry 2 14
REILLY, Francis 1 14
REILLY, Edward 2 15
REILLY, William 2 11
REYNOLDS, Michael 6 10
RICE, Charles 3 11
RICHARDSON, John 4 7
RICHARDSON, Hugh 4 22 (W1/2)
RICHARDSON, Wm. 4 20
ROBERTS, Isaac 8 24
ROBERTSON, James 9 20
ROGERS, John 9 23
ROGERS, Abraham 3 15
ROGERS, Joseph 5 15
RODGERS, William 2 12
RORKE, John 8 14 (Pt)
RORKE, Edward 7 15 (SW1/4)
RORKE, Richard 8 13 (Pt)
ROSE, Wm. 8 22
ROSS, John 14 20
RUSH, Peter 4 16
RYALL, Matthew 5 2
RYAN, Thomas 2 3 (S1/2)
RYAN, Michael 1 13
SANDERSON, John 5 20
SEMPLE, Hugh 4 7
SHEPPARD, Thomas 6 23 (S1/2)
SIGSWORTH, John 3 13
SKELLY, Bryan 2 2 (SW1/4)
SMITH, Jethro 7 9 (SW1/4)
SMITH, James 8 15
SPEARS, James 14 18
SPELANE, Cornelius 2 4
SPROULE, Wm. 13 13 (S1/2)
SPROULE, Robert 8 2 (N1/2)
SPROULE, Wm. 8 1
STEPHENS, Frederick 8 12
STEPHENSON, Alex 8 17 (N1/2)
STRONG, Wm. 8 20
STEWART, Alex 6 19
THOMPSON, John 6 23
THOMPSON, Robert 4 23 (S1/2)
THOMPSON, Wm. 4 24 (S Pt)
THOMPSON, Thomas 4 23 (N1/2)
TEGART, James 4 8 (S1/2)
TOTTEN, John 3 6
TRACY, Patrick 1 16 (N1/2)
TRACY, Wm. 2 16
TRACY, Richard 2 16
TRACY, Richard 1 18
TRAVERS, Jeremiah 8 17
TRAVERS, Whitney 7 16
TRAVERS, Joshua 8 21
WALKER, Samuel 3 22
WALKER, John 2 21 (N1/2)
WALKER, William 3 21
WALKER, Joseph 1 13
WALKER, John 4 1
WALKER, William 1 24 (N Pt)
WALTON, Jesse, T. 3 14
WARD, William 5 24
WASHBURN, Josephus 7 18
WATSON, John 6 18
WHITE, James 3 12
WIDDES, Robert 9 23
WILLIAMS, Gilbert 2 15
WILLIAMS, Daniel 5 13
WILLIAMS, William 8 7
WILLOUGHBY, Henry 8 24
WILLOUGHBY, Ralph 7 22
WILSON, Edward 5 14
WILSON, James 7 24
WILSON, Francis 6 19
WILSON, Robert 7 19
WILSON, William 8 20
WISE, Henry 3 19
WORTHINGTON, Thomas 4 15

TECUMSETH

Tecumseth appears to have excelled all the other townships, so far as rapid progress is concerned.
Beginning with 1822, with scarcely a single white man within its borders, its population in 1829
had reached 546, as we learn from a copy of Mackenzie's Colonial Advocate, dated April 9th, 1829.

The rapidity of its development during the succeeding years is indicated in the following table:

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Year .........................Population
1829...............................546
1836..............................1410
1842..............................2491
1850..............................3612

Notwithstanding the rapid settlement of the township, from which one would infer that pioneer life there was beset by fewer obstacles, the hardships of the first settlers in that township seem to have been unusally severe.

A part of the pioneers in the extreme south east of Tecumseth came from the North of Ireland.

A partial list of these early settlers in the south east, mostly in the ealy twenties, is here given;

Robert Clark, (1825) , lot 23, con.2,

Gilbert Coffey, (1825), lot 21, con.4,

John Coffey, (1825), lot 22, con. 4,

James Manning, (1819), lot 24, con. 5,

Joseph Walker, (1827), lot 21, con. 3.

This group of pioneers mostly came by way of King Township, and settled, as we see, in the corner adjacent to that township,
and in the vicinity of Dunkerron.

TheY had very hard times after their arrival, not only in getting their first crops harvested,
but in finding a market for the grain.

It was related that Robert Clark, who was the first person to bring a wagon into Tecumseth,
could neither get money nor tea for the first produce of the fields.

"Tea was a cash article in those days, and though Clark offered the merchant
as much wheat as chose to take for a pound, he could not get it.

The best he could do was to trade his load for deer calico and earthenware,
at the rate of fifty cents per bushel. He drew to little York,
a distance of at least thirty miles, five barrels of flour;
but all he could get for it was $2.50, half cash and half 'trade,'
with the understanding that he was to have one barrel of salt for one barrel of flour.

James Manning, sr., named on the above list, was indeed one of the very first to settle in the township.

He died, Dec. 19th, 1866, aged 90 years.

Joseph Walker was a native of County Tyrone, Ireland, and came with his brothers and sisters early in the twenties
to the new settlements in West Gwillimbury and Tecumseth.

In 1849, or the following year, he moved west to the township of Brant, Bruce County,
and pursued his vocation of milling at the present site of the town of Walkerton, the town being named after him.

Sketches of this useful pioneer are in Belden's Atlas of Simcoe County, and in Norman Robertson's History of Bruce County,
with a portrait in each.

A few from other countries settled amongst these Irish residents in the early years, of whom were the following:

Henry Dean, lot 22, con.2,

Jeremiah Lundy, (1822), lot 19, con. 1,

Henry Nolan, (1829), lot 23, con. 2,

Peter Doyle, (1829), lot 24, con.3.

Henry Nolan and his wife were both of good Quaker stock.

Their son, George A. Nolan, of Tottenham, was reeve of the township for four years - 1870-73.

He was again reeve in 1881-2-3, and on the incorporation of Tottenham as a village
he was elected as its first reeve in January, 1885,
but resigned the position a few months later.

Peter Doyle, also named in this list, was the first to settle in his neighborhood.

He was a Quaker, and he made the first wagons in the neighborhood.

One of the first persons to settle in the township was Andrew Carswell.

The travelling catechist, John Carruthers, relates in his Retrospect (page 232),
that Mr. Carswell and some others opened the forest here in 1819.

At any rate, he received the patent for the north part of lot 24, con. 4,
as early as June 21st, 1823.

They had come in by way of the settlements of West Gwillimbury, adjoining them.

A member of this family, John Carswell, settled farther north, near Bond Head.

In the early days, his house was used as a place for preaching by the Presbyterians.

He was one of the Home District Councillors for Tecumseth in 1842,
and in the following year represented the township in the Simcoe District Council.

It is worthy of notice that the first distinct influx of settlers into this township,
came in or about the year 1825, and most of those settled in this southeast quarter of the township.

Among the names of settlers entering or taking up lands before this period,
not already mentioned, we find that of John Connor (1822) who took up lot 19, con. 1,
\and that of William Walker, (1821) on lot 15, con. 1.

The Hawke family were amongst the earliest settlers in this southeast corner of the township.

Benjamin Hawke, the head of the family, came to Yonge Street from Pennsylvania
about the year 1811, his wife being a sister of Samuel Lount, who was executed after the Rebellion.

During the war of 1812-15, Mr. Hawke was the contractor for hauling the cannons and supplies passing
through Holland Landing, and across the portage from the Head of Kempenfeldt Bay
to the Nottawasaga River.

His sons, along with himself, settled in King and Tecumseth townships in the twenties,
when the parts around Lloydtown and Schomberg were opening for settlement.

He was one of the canidates to represent the County of Simcoe at the election for the Assembly in 1834,
but was not successful.

He was appointed a justice of the peace in 1843.

He was lame, and in his day had a full share of the rugged experiences of frontier and pioneer life.

Periphen Hawke, was taken prisoner during the Rebellion disturbances of 1837,
and, after five months' imprisonment, was pardoned, according to the list of persons arrested
appearing in Lindsay's Life of W.L. Mackenzie.

And it is said that Gabriel Hawke, of Tecumseth, was also taken prisoner during the Rebellion,
although his name does not appear in that list.

Gabriel was a large, powerful man, and well-known in the early days of the Township of Tecumseth.

Some part of the Hawke family moved to the Township of Wellesley, County of Waterloo,
where the village of Hawkesville is named after them.

Farther north, in the vicinity of Bond Head, and northward, the settlers were of different types,
and less uniformly of one nationality than is some other parts, though there was also here a large sprinkling
of North of Ireland people.

Chief amongst the earliest in this central part of the township were:

James Armstrong, (1825), lot 22, con. 7,

Richard Batters, lot 21, con. 6,

Richard Callaghan, (1825), lot 24, con. 9,

George Clunis (1825), lot 19, con. 6,

Adam Graham, (1821), lot 24, con. 8,

James Hill, (1825), lot 24, con. 11,

William Mares, (1827), lot 22, con. 9,

James McDermott, (1825), lot 18, con. 8,

Edward Rorke, (1824), lot 15, con. 7,

Henry Willoughby, lot 24, con. 8.

George Ramsay was amongst the first to arrive, having come in 1822, and taken up lot 19, con.8;
although, being a bachelor, he did not settle upon his land until 1825,
hiring others in the meantime to make a clerance on it.

In that year he married, and with his young wife repaired? or retired ? to his home in the backwoods,
taking along with his household outfir a small coffee mill.

He was an early magistrate and it was "Squire" Ramsay who married Henry Morris and Margaret Kidd of Essa,
this being the first marriage in the settlement.

During some seasons of the year, the Holland River was so swollen with floods
that it was impossible for the Tecumseth settlers to cross it on their way
with grists to Newmarket, where was the nearest mill.

At such time Ramsay's little coffee mill was in great demand, and it is said that people came for several miles
to grind a few quarts of grain, in order to ward off starvation while the floods lasted.

Mr. Ramsay also taught the school in Section No.11 for some years in the forties and fifties.

He was a native of the County Tyrone, Ireland, and died November 10th, 1865, aged 69 years and two months.

The original settler in the northern part of Tecumseth was Thomas Cooke, whose name (on lot 24, con. 14),
is remembered in connection with Cookstown.

But settlers located in the north rather slowly, chiefly on account of the "Big Swamp,"
which shut them off from communication with the south, and also because the Government Road
from Bradford westward, drew the traffic into the central and southern parts.

Mr. Cooke was a native of County Leitrim, Ireland, and had advanced far enough
with his affairs to raise a house on his land in 1833,
across the road from James Kidd (in West Gwillimbury),
who was the pioneer of this locality. Mr. Cooke's sons may be classed as early settlers,
as well as himself, viz., James, Christopher, Thomas and George.

Hiram Bigelow received a patent for lot 12, con. 6, as early as 1823,
and became one of the first settlers of this township. Afterwards, he started the first grist mill in the township,
in 1832, or earlier, on lot 20, con. 9, on the stream a mile west of Newton Robinson.

Like all the other mills of that early day, it was turned by water power, there being no steam mills at the time.

It had wooden wheels, and its remains were to be seen at the place until recent years.

Mr. Bigelow had built a sawmill here before he built the grist mill.

Some part of the "race" to carry water for the wheel, he made of scooped logs,
about a quarter of a mile lomg, or nearly.

His son, Nelson Gordon Bigelow, became a prominent lawyer in Toronto,
and was at one time member of the Ontario Legislature for the city.

William Monkman, a native of Lancashire, Eng., settled in 1819 or early in the twenties on the S. half, lot 17, con.3.

His wife, Hannah Dale, was a native of Yorkshire.

He prospered, and in course of time became the owner of 300 acres.

He is best remembered as the founder of "Monkman's Meeting-house,"
the Methodist church at this place.

As early as 1828, a travelling Methodist missionary, Rev. John Black, held services in his house,
as we learn from Carroll's work on Case and his Contemporaries, (111,. 200).

He had a family of three sons and six daughters. The sons were: George who died in 1846;
John and Lawrence, both of whom moved to Garafraxa Township.

His daughter, Sarah, was the wife of Thomas Gamble, J.P., a well-known resident of the township in later years.

In this part of the township, also, Gilbert Williams was one of the earliest settlers, on lot 15, con.2.

He died Feb. 11th, 1865, at the age of 88 years. Joseph Hollingshead received a patent for lot 13, con. 4, in April, 1822,
and his son, William, was a resident on this land for many years.

He died March 24th, 1890, in 87th year.

About the same time as the others, in this early group of 1822 or the next year,
was William Rogers, who settled on lot 12, con. 2.

He was, like a number of his neighbors, a native of England.

A little further west than the Monkman settlement, towards the centre of the township, in the first four concessions
(especially in concessions one and two), several familes of Irish Catholics settled among the rest.

In course of time these established a Catholic Church, with presbytery and burying-ground, on the second line on lot 14.

PENVILLE AND ITS NEIGHBORHOOD

At Penville, Adna Penfield, a native of Connecticut, was one of the first settlers, his land being lot 18, con.4. Jesse Mills, a shoemaker, was also a settler of long standing. A village sprang up here at an early date, and a cross road, for the convenience of the settlers, was opened through six concessions, traversing the village in its course. It became an important center soon after the settlement of this neighborhood. In 1837, William Lyon Mackenzie held one of his meetings at Penville, and their was the usual excitement, but this did not prove to be one of the most seditious quarters in that stirring time. Sir Francis Bond Head has had but few admirers even among loyalists, yet the only place in Canada bearing his name as a memorial is to be found in this vicinity - the neighboring village of Bond Head; thus bearing witness to the ultra-loyal and satisfied condition of the inhabitants generally. In later years, the municipal council erected a Township Hall at Penville, and it thus became the "capital." When the railway passed up the valley through Tottenham and Beeton in 1877, Penville waned, and lost the importance it had in the earlier years. In this neighborhood there were some good forests of white oak, which is one of the most valuable trees for timber on this continent.
In the neighborhood of Penville, a few others settled in the early years to which we are referring: - James Coady, (1823), lot 14, con. 7, John Milligan, (1825), lot 14, con. 5, John McDermott, (1825), lot 15, con. 6, Daniel McCurdy, lot 13. con. 5.
The last named of these pioneers reached the century mark, having died June 3rd, 1878, aged 100 years, 5 months and 17 days. He was a native of the County Antrim, Ireland.
James Ellison came from the North of Ireland and settled on lot 8, con.2, in 1822, or soon afterwards. Early in the thirties before any church had arisen in the settlement, the house of Mr. Ellison was used as a Presbyterian place of worship, and a cemetery was started in the neighborhood, on lot 7 on the third line, in 1837 or earlier. The members and adherents of this preaching appointment built a log church at the place late in the thirties, and a manse was also added in course of time. Mr. Ellison had only one son, William. Two of his grandsons entered the Presbyterian ministry in the Hamilton Synod. Mr. Ellison died March 7th, 1880, aged 93 years.
Before the Rebellion, John Pearcey had settled on lot 10, con. 2. He had come from the North of Ireland,
like nearly all the other settlers in the same neighborhood. He died October 9th, 1868,
in his 64th year.

Beside him on a part of the same lot settled John Fleming about the same time, who survived till January 15th, 1891,
reaching the age of 75 years. James Milligan had arrived in this neighborhood in 1825,
if not before. He is recorded for lot 9, con. 2, but always lived, in subsequent years at any rate, on S. half lot 9, con. 3.

Other early settlers in this locality, with their approximate dates of settlement, were:

Owen Casey, (1825), lot 6, con. 2,

William Hamner, (1824), lot 6, con. 1,

Thos. McGoey, (1825), lot 7, con. 1.

To the northward of the last group of settlers a few others established themselves early in the twenties.

Robert Martin came in 1822 and settled on the fourth line, his land being recorded as lot 9, con. 4.

He received a patent for N. half lot 8, con. 3, April 28th, 1825.

On the fifth line he had a small mill, with turning lathe, in the forties and fifties.

After passing through the usual hardships, he reached a mature age, and died December 29th, 1867, aged 72 years.

TOTTENHAM AND ITS NEIGHBORHOOD

James M. Tegart arrived in 1823 and took up lot 8, con. 4.

It is recorded that when he had cleared three acres of his land he found his cash almost at an end,
and had to go to the frontier settlements and hire out for three months in order to raise some ready money.

He got $24, or six pounds, for wages, and with this sum he purchased a cow,
a spinning wheel for his wife, and some flax. With the wheel, his wife spun enough in six weeks to purchase another cow.

Such were some of the hardships of Tecumseth pioneers.

As early as 1828, Mr. Black, a travelling missionary of the Methodist church,
held services in Mr. Tegart's house (Carroll's Case and his Contemporaries, 111., 200),
and about the same time a cemetery was started at this place,
and has become the burial place of many old settlers,
and the one now chiefly used by the inhabitants of Tottenham,
a mile west of the place. Mr. Tegart died March 7th, 1881, aged 80 years 6 months.

In 1825, Hugh Semple, a native of Scotland, settled on the next land westward, lot 7, con. 4,
and spent his lifetime in this locality.

He died October 2nd, 1882, aged 72 years. His eldest son, Andrew Semple
moved to Garafraxa in the pioneer days of that township, and subsequently
became member of the Dominion House of Commons for Centre Wellington
during three parliaments (1887 to 1900).

James White, a native of County Down, Ireland, settled on lot 8, con. 3, at an early date.

Mr. White died October 3rd, 1846, aged 52 years.

John Totten secured a patent for thesouth-west quarter of lot, con. 2, in 1825.

Alexander Totten, a member of this man's family, started a store on lot 6, con. 3,
in 1835 or 1836 (before the Rebellion).

They were natives of the County Armagh, Ireland. In 1840, Alex. to wife,
Isabella, daughter of John Willoughby, of Newton Robinson,
and this couple lived here more than fifty years.

Beside them a village grew up, and when a post office was opended here in 1858,
the name Tottenham was given to it out of compliment to the pioneer of the locality.

When the question of incorporating Tottenham as a village came before the County Council in June, 1884,
John Thomas Smyth was appointed enumerator for taking the census of the village.

He found the proposed limits contained 792 inhabitants and the council incorporated it with George P. Hughes
as the first returning-officer. The first reeve elected was George A. Nolan (1885).

BEETON AND ITS NEIGHBORHOOD

The first settlers near Beeton were William Hammill, Frederick S. Stephens, John Nelson and Selby Evans,
all of whom settled before 1836.

Mr. Hammill was one of the two Home District Councillors for Tecumseth in 1842, John Carswell being the other.

The date of Mr. Hammill's arrival is given as 1827. He died, March 1st, 1854, aged 82 years.

Mr. Stephens was a magistrate prior to 1836, and also served his township as District Councillor in 1847-48.

At a later time the village itself sprang up. Robert Clark, having purchased some portion of the land here in 1852,
on which were two or three vacant buildings - a log tavern, and a small house and shop - took up his trade as blacksmith,
and also started business as a gunsmith, though the forest coverd much of the land about him.

He sold off parts of his land as building lots whenever an occasion arose,
and the place in course of time began to take on some appearances of a small village.

It was first called Clarksville, then Tecumseth, aftre the Tecumseth post office was moved to the place in 1860.

A post office in Essex County received also the name Tecumseth, and this led immediately to what might be expected,
viz., the mail matter for both offices going astray and getting confused.

As an alternative the name Beeton was suggested as a suitable change for this office, on account of the bee trade of D.A. Jones,
who was then postmaster, and it was adopted in 1878. The County COuncil purchased the south part of lot 11, con. 8,
near this place, for an Industrial Farm, and built the House of Refuge on it in 1898.

The incorporation of Beeton, as a village, came up at a session of the County Council in June, 1884.

The Council appointed Thomas Atkins enumerator for taking the census of the village, which he found,
within the proposed limits, to contain 781 inhabitants, and the Council incorporated it ,
W.H. Dickson being appointed the first returning officer. Thomas Atkins was elected as the first reeve of the village,
but some inhabitants (Mr. Fenton and others) threatened suit against the county to set aide the By-law of Incorporation.

The matter was taken into the courts, and the case of Fenton vs. County Simcoe was a topic in the newspapers of the day.

Chief Justice Wilson quashed the By-law (No. 379), and his decision extends over a number of pages
in volume 10 of the Ontario Law Reports, but there was an appeal from his decision,
and the case entered in the Court of Appeal. In the meantime (January, 1886),
the County Council asked the Legislature by memorial to pass an Act to confirm and legalize By-law No. 379,
and the Legislature passed an Act for the purpose, as 49 Vict., Chap. 51 (1886), which closed the matter in dispute.


Patrick Hughes, a native of the County Armagh, Ireland, took up lot 6, concessions 6 and 7, in 1832.

He was a pensioned soldier, and had served through the Peninsular war, having been wounded at the battle of Vittoria, 1813.

His wife was a Portuguese, a native of Lisbon.

Mr. Hughes died in 1872, aged 87 years. His son, George P. Hughes, is also to be classed in the roll of pioneers,
having been born on the Tecumseth homestead in November, 1834.

He became one of the early merchants at Keenansville, where he established a local newspaper
(called the Simcoe Observer), as early as 1865, and was also postmaster and magistrate.

Some time after the opening of the Hamilton Railway through Tecumseth (viz., in 1882),
he moved to Tottenham,
where he carried on a banking business,
and also the Sentinel newspaper,
this being the name he gave the Observer after its third year.

Another notable pioneer in this part of the township was John C. Colgan,
who settled on lot 1, con. 5, in 1828, or very soon afterwards.

Across the town line from his home, the first Catholic Church of St. James was erected in 1833,
and a small village grew up here,
to which was given the name of "Colgan."

This pioneer will be remembered as the poet "Fagan," the name he signed to his poetical effusions
which used to appear in local newspapers. A volume of his poems was printed in Toronto in 1873,
written during the preceeding thirty years.

They were mostly of local interest; the titles of the pieces, and many references throughout them, recall scenes and events of bygone times in Tecumseth and Adjala.

 

Along the edge of Tecumseth facing W. Gwillimbury,
Andrew Carswell, James Manning and one or two others settled in 1819.

In Innisfil, Francis Hewson settled at Big Pay Point in or about the same year.

In the same year (1819) about a dozen familes located
on the Penetanguishene Road in Oro and Vespra.

Amongst these were the families of
Brown, Bergin, Debenham, Drury, Gough, Hart, Hickling, Jones, Lawrence, Luck, Mair, Partridge, Watson, White and several other familes,
all of whom settled within a short time of each other

. These were followed in the next year or two by the familes of
Bruce, Craig, Johnson, Lang, McLean, Richardson and Williams,
who settled to the north of the last name group.

While near Penetanguishene, a few families settled within a year
or two after the removal of the Nottawasaga garrison to that place in 1818.

All these families and many more will be referred to when we come
to take up each neighbourhood by itself.

The arrival of settlers was, however, tardy; and only a few isolated clearings
were made up to the year 1831, when a considerable influx of settlers took place.

In the next year (1832) the influx became quite general and lasted
for about three years, when another lull took place
--a calm before the gathering storm of the Rebellion.

Many causes are accountable for this large influx of settlers in 1832.

The Reform Bill riots in Britain at the time no doubt caused many to emigrate.

In addition to this, great excitement, according to Dr. Thomas Rolph in his "Statistical Account" prevailed in Britain in 1832 on the subject of colonial slavery, compelling the British Government to legislate in favour of emancipation in 1833.

This agitation produced feelings hostile to the West Indies,
and more favourable to Upper Canada, where the importation of slaves
had been abolished in 1793.

Besides these, the war of 1812-15 had called attention in Britain to Canadian affairs.

The peaceful period succeeded the war, during which period peace
also reigned in Europe, was a time when a number of travellers
--Murray, Hall, Mrs. Trollope, Galt,
and many others--passed through the United States and Canada.

On reaching England, their travels were published,
and thus public attention there was directed even more extensively
toward Canada.

The Rebellion of 1837 is a sharp dividing line.

Those who settled before it were the pioneers of he county.

When the Rebellion troubles were at an end, other settlers began to flock
in once more, and the stream of immigration was kept up to present times.

Thus it will be seen that the period before the Rebellion stands out by itself,
sharp and clear,--and it is with this period more particularly that we intend
to deal in the present work.

Settlements According to Nationality

In this county as elsewhere throughout the province the pioneers settled
in groups or clusters, according to their nationality.

In the course of a journey through the county in its pioneer days,
a person would come upon groups of English, Scotch, Irish, French-Canadians, Germans, and Negroes

--all of whom appeared to have settled in clusters,
giving to each neighbourhood its distinctive features,
which it will retain for several generations to come.

It is interesting to note the progress made by these different national groups or settlements, for they are favourably situated throughout the county for purposes
of comparison.

The thifty Saxon is side by side with his less lymphatic neighbour,
the Celt, from Ireland or the Highlands of Scotland,
and the two are mutually benefited, politically, religiously,
and in many other ways, by the contact.

In West Gwillimbury there was a settlement of Highland Scotch refugees
from Lord Selkirk's colony on the Red River;
while in the northern part of the same township,
in Tecumseth, in the eastern portion of Essa,
and in the southwest of Innisfil

--spread over parts of four townships with Cookstown as a centre

--was a large settlement of Protestant Orangemen from the north of Ireland.

In Southeast Innisfil, and in West Essa, were small settlements
of Lowland Scotch.

Adjala was originally peopled by Irish Catholics,
large groups of whom also located in Flos and Medonte,
though these mostly since the Rebellion of '37.

In Oro and in Nottawasaga are large settlements of Highland Scotch,
most of whom were natives of the island of Islay.

Near Penetanguishene a settlement of French-Canadians
was made about 1828, and in Oro two dozen Negro families
were planted about 1832 on what was known as Wilberforce Street.

These, and many more, are the "national" settlements
which were formed throughout the county prior to 1837,
and it may be added that the greater portion of the county's population
at that time was comprised within these "little nations,"
each having but a few square miles of area.

The conditions of life (especially the introduction of railways,
which rapidly mix the population) as in every new country, here became such, however, that distinctive national traits of character are giving way to more cosmopolitan manners and speech.

A story is told of the early settlers of Essa (and confirmed on good authority),
that they would not allow a Roman Catholic to settle amongst them.

A few of such, however, did manage to settle, but the almost unmixed Protestant population of this township, down to the present day, tells the story in uncertain language of this "select policy" on the part of its first settlers.

The Elements of our Population

With the groups of English, Scots, Irish, French-Canadians, Germans, etc., the particular nationality or creed in each case determines the characteristic traits of the group--traits which are persisting through several generations, notwithstanding the levelling tendencies of modern life.

The accompanying lists give, by townships such settlements or groups of the original rural population of Simcoe County, as can be set down in tabular form.

The town and village portion of our population is too mixed to be amenable to analysis of this kind; the only observable rule in this case is that the population of each town is mainly recruited from the rural districts in its neighbourhood.

In this county, as elsewhere, names of political and religious significance are often the most convenient for the designation of the various groups.

For the most part, those who colonized this county belonged to the peasant classes of Great Britain and Ireland, as the accompanying table of groups will show, and the traits of character so marked in the British peoples have shown themselves in the life of the people of this county.

The sea and sea life have the effect of giving to men the virtues of courage
and valor in greater amount than other kinds of life; and those peoples,
like the British, who live nearest the sea, furnish sailors of the most courageous types.

Speaking generally, the pioneers had more courage than modern people,
because there were more occasions demanding the exercise of courage,
but our pioneers mostly came of a courageous race.

Groups of First Settlers

French-Canadians (begun in 1828), Tiny, Tay.

English (from northern counties of England begun in 1820).....
Oro and Vespra (25 familes at first) Medonte, Tecumseth, West Gwillimbury.

Scots (from Sutherlandshire at first. Immigrants with Lord Selkirk's Red River Colonists. Seventeen families, located here in 1819).....

West Gwillimbury.

Scots (fron Islay, Argyleshire. Begun in 1832).....Oro and Nottawasaga chiefly,
and a few familes of the same migration into Medonte, Orillia, Sunnidale.
Scots (Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire, via Dalhousie Township, Ont., in 1832.

Many Glasgow and Paisley weavers were among these).....Innisfil,Essa.

Scots (Dumfrieshire, 1832 to 1850)Innisfil.

Irish (begun in 1830. Protestants from Ulster. Extensive settlement).....West Gwillimbury, Tecumseth, Innisfil, Essa, Tossorontio.

Irish Palantines (about 10 familes in 1831).....West Gwillimbury.

Irish (Catholics, begun in 1828).....Adjala, Vespra, Flos, Medonte, Nottawasaga.

Irish (from Londonderry in 1850, etc.,).....Innisfil.

Germans (begun with 10 families in 1834).....Nottawasaga.

Negroes (Begun in 1828).....Oro (20 families), Sunnidale.

Indians (Ojibways, population about 266).....Beausoleil and Christian Islands.

There were a few other kinds of people among the pioneers.

When the soldiers, for example, passed to and fro in the time of the war of 1812-15 through the county, it was then in a state of nature. But as soon as it was opened up for settlement, many of the soldiers who had been impressed by its fair appearance became actual settlers.

At the first the rural development in comparison with that of the towns and villages of that time, strikes the observer.

The whirligig of time has completely reversed this order of things in the seventy or eighty odd years that have elapsed since the first extensive settlements were made.

The incipient towns of Bradford, Barrie and Orillia, in 1837, for example, or rather, these villages, each contained a dozen or two families; Collingwood or Stayner did not spring into existence until the construction of the Northern Railway in 1854; Penetanguishene was a trifle larger in 1837 than any other place in the county;
while Midland was not begun until 1872 at the time of the inauguration of the Midland Railway.

Nowadays, the towns and villages contain more than half of the population,
but at the first they contained only about the one-twentieth part.

At the end of the second volume there are lists of the settlers who had arrived in the county before 1837, numbering some 1,800 heads of families.

After seventy odd years scarcely half a dozen of these pioneers survive.

New generations in tenfold numbers fill their places, and cultivated fields take the place of the forest openings in the midst of which they lived and labored with their three-cornered harrows and other primitive implements.

The brief sketches of some of the first settlers, of which the second volume mainly consists, relate chiefly to the first thirty or forty settlers arriving before the others in each township.

Of necessity this plan will include those who came in the twenties into South Simcoe, also those at Penetanguishene and along the military road to that post, in the north half of the county, who mostly came during the same early years. But in the other parts of the county those who came a few years later than the above were the pioneers.

The Duration of Life

The increase in population of later years is to some extent due to an increase in the duration of life. Many persons in this county at one time or another. have reached the age of 100 years or more, and a few facts about this subject may be worthy of record at this part of the history.
Some Centenarians of Simcoe County
NAME NATIVE COUNTRY DEATH AGE RESIDENCE

John McKay Kintyre, Scotland Jan. 31, 1857 107 Nottawasaga

Arthur Gough Co. Mayo, Ireland Dec. 12, 1874 101 W. Gwillimbury

Daniel McCurdy Co. Antrim, Ireland June 3, 1878
100 Tecumseth

Wm. Mackie Co. Armagh, Ireland Apr. 17, 1879
106 W. Gwillimbury

Angus Sutherland Scotland Mar. 24, 1885
103 W. Gwillimbury

Jane Campbell Tyrone, Ireland Jan. 29, 1889
102 Glencairn

James Duross Ireland May 15, 1896
113 Adjala

Eugene Smith Cork, Ireland Mar. 11, 1908
101 Vespra & Barrie

Francis Ruddell Glasgow, Scotland Nov. 11, 1908
100 Midland

Mrs. Stewart Scotland Feb. 18, 1899 106 Minesing
Cornelius McCarthy Co. Cork, Ireland Jan. 28, 1905
106 Tay

The accompanying list gives such particulars as the writer
has been able to gather in regard to a few of these centenarians.

This is not by any means a complete list, and it is to be remembered
that it can be greatly added to, but it is sufficiently representative
to be instructive so far as it goes. It is worthy of note that the persons
named in the list, almost without exception, came either from Ireland
or from the Scottish Highlands, both kinds, in fact,
belonging to the most northerly or outlying peoples.

Their endurance shows not only the hardiness of the Celtic race,
to which they mostly belonged, but also the healthfulness of the climate
to which they came.

It is also worthy of note that a number of the Ojibway Indians
in the county have succeeded in passing the century mark,
but the facts of their ages are less reliable than in the cases of the white settlers.

• Penny Petersen Anderson
  Very interesting with a big but on my ancestry!
  Not one mention of any ancestors that started arriving in 1814!
  
  The first with the 70th Foot and obtained land near Beeton by 1822,
  McDermott - land granted 1822,
  Brazel - land grant 1819 and
  Ausman (from the US) in 1804 - land in 1808.
  
  None famous to be included!
  
  Fortunately I found many pieces of info about them!
  As a side note - they all located within 10 miles of each family
  - horseback and carriage courting distance.

 

PENETANG, ONTARIO PART 2

The following history is verbatim from the book "The History of Simcoe County"
by Andrew F. Hunter. First published in 1909 and reproduced in 1948 by the Simcoe County Historical Society.

THE PENETANGUISHENE ROAD PART 11.

FROM CRAIGHURST TO PENETANGUISHENE THE LOTS IN FLOS--"OLD SURVEY"

John Richardson, the eldest son of William Richardson, the pioneer who lived farther south on this Military Road,
on the Oro side, settled on lot 41 at an early date. He was District Councillor for Flos during three years, viz., 1844-6.

Stephen Bishop, who settled quite early on lot 42, was also District Councillor for the township during 1847-9.

Wm. Larkin had been the first settler on this lot in 1824, but sold it to his cousin, Mr. Bishop,
and moved to lot 4, near Kempenfeldt, about 1832.

One of the very first to locate within the borders of Flos was David McDougall, a retired coxwain of the Navy,
who arrived on the 12th December, 1826, and took up lot 44 on this Penetanguishene Road.

He was a native of Dundee, Scotland, and had served in the navy on the lakes during the war of 1812-15.

Before he came to this county he had resided in Kingston, Ontario, where most of his family were born.

As he was almost the first settler in Flos, the wolves were particularly troublesome in the early days of his settlement,
and used to howl about the home of the lonely pioneer in a terrifying fashion.

The bones of many sheep killed by these denizens of the forest were common sights in the rear of McDougall's clearing in those days.

A son of his became the Methodist missionary to the Northwest Indians, the Rev. George McDougall,
biographies of whom have appeared from the pens of the Rev. Dr. John Maclean, and his own son,
the Rev. Dr. John McDougall.

David McDougall and family left this place about 1842 and went to live in the vicinity of Owen Sound.

Beyond the swamp, northward, the Swan brothers, natives of the County Cavan, Ireland,
and veterans of the 66th regiment, took up grants in 1836, and became early settlers,--

Thomas on lot 51, and James on lot 52.

Their brother, William Swan, settled in 1842 on lot 52, on the second line, and died, July 6, 1855, aged 47 years.

James Swan died suddenly in 1840, leaving a widow, but no descendants.

The sons of Thomas Swan are to be included in the roll of pioneers, viz., John O., (who died March 10, 1896, aged 65 years),
James Thomas, jr., Joseph H., and William.

William Davenport, an escaped negro slave, settled on lot 51, at an early date, and became a prosperous farmer.

His brother, Ben Davenport, had also been in slavery, and was unmarried.

On the next lot north, viz., on 52, George Hickling, jr., the eldest son of the pioneer of the same name at Crownhill,
on the Oro side, was the first settler.

William Prey settled and opened a tavern on lot 53 in 1829.

This was a welcome boon to wayworn and night over-taken travellers, but he did not remain here more than five of six years.

And we find John Rowat on the same the lot, or a part of it, before 1837.

Hugh Marlow, on lot 55, was the first postmaster in Flos, in 1837.

To the northward of Hillsdale of the present day, John Hamilton, a Waterloo veteran,
settled on lot 60.

On his retirement from the 79th Highlanders, at Penetanguishene,
whither the detachment of his regiment had been sent in 1831,
this lot was granted to him at the close of twenty-one years' service.

His son James, who occupied the homestead, and another son William,
of the same neighborhood, may also be classed as pioneers.

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Beyond Orr Lake, John Rowley, a retired soldier with the rank of sergeant,
received lot 70 in Flos, and became the earliest settler at this place.

His son, who may also be included among the pioneers, contributed some interesting particulars of the early days
to the Elmvale Lance of September 27, 1906.

The hill at this part of the Penetanguishene Road has always had the name of Rowley's Hill,
from the first settler.

Other retired soldiers also took up lots along this part of the road at an early period.

James Gravett, of lot 73, was an old seaman, and wore his hair plaited in a queu,
and hanging down his back, accordingly to the fashion of an earlier time.

His second wife was a sister of the pioneer mail carrier, Neddie McDonald, of Penetanguishene.

And on lot 74, Thomas Kettle, color sergeant of the 68th Foot settled in 1834.

First settlers on the Penetanguishene Road (Flos and Medonte).

(From Craighurst to Waverley)

75 (Waverley) Thomas Kettle

74 James Gravett

73 James Hunt

72

71 John Rowley

70

69

68 (Orr Lake)

67

66

65

64

63

62 Wm. Campbell & D. McGenerty

61 John Hamilton, 1832

60

59 Patrick Murphy, 1829

58

57

56

(Hillsdale)

55

54 William Prey, 1829

53 Geo. Hickling, jr., 1829

52 Wm. Davenport, 1821

51

50

49

48

47

46

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45 David McDougall, 1826

44 John Craig, 1821

43 Thomas Craig, sr., 1821 Stephen Bishop

42 Alex. Laing, 1820 John Richardson

41

(Craighurst)

THE MEDONTE LOTS

In the early days of settlement, James Morrison kept the first tavern at Craighurst,
which was then known as "Morrison's Corners."

He was a native of the Island of Jersey, off the coast of France,
and after living for a time in Barrie, where his relatives lived,
about the year 1840, in addition to the tavern above mentioned,
he also built the first mill at Craighurst, but it was not a success,
as the stream was to small to supply good water power.

He also started the first line of stages along the Penetanguishene Road in 1847,
was the government contractor for the improvement of the road in the same year northward
from his place of business, also had a sub-contract for carrying the mails,
and had the government contract with Joseph Rush (a carpenter) for building
the Indian houses on Beausoliel Island.

He died March 26, 1856, aged 41 years; and his wife, Charlotte Johnson, survived him until July 25, 1892,
dying at 79 years of age.

Alexander Laing, of Glasgow, Scotland, settled on lot 42, in March, 1821,
and survived until August 13, 1877, dying in his 89th year.

His son, John Laing, started a blacksmith shop at Craighurst in 1848.

He died May 25, 1900, in ihs 82nd year. Thomas Craig, with his two sons John and Thomas, jr.,
arrived in the spring of 1821, and took up lots 43 and 44.

They were natives of Kendal, Westmoreland, England.

Immediately to the north of their locations there was a wide swamp
across which the Penetanguishene Road made its way, and this often bore the name of Craig's Swamp.

It lent a dismal setting to the place in the pioneer days, especially in those seasons of the year
when the wolves were most troublesome, particularly the autumn.

Thomas Craig (the elder Thomas, there having been three generations bearing the name Thomas)
died April 10, 1840.

John Craig, the eldest son, was a young man of 23 years of age at the time of their arrival,
and settled upon the north half of lot 23, May 14, 1821.

He was clerk of the division court at that place, and also postmaster, the post office (Craighurst)
receiving its name from this family. He was District Councillor for Medonte in 1844,
and was reeve of the same township for sixteen years continuously, 1851-66.

During 1857 he was the Warden of the county. He died May 23, 1876, aged 78 years.

Thomas Craig, the second of the name, (there were only two sons in the pioneer's family)
was the surveyor of the roads for Medonte and North Orillia in 1844 and subsequent years,
and held other public positions at various times. He died August 23, 1871, aged 63 years.

A considerable family survived him. Thomas, the third of the name, resides on the homestead; Abraham, Division Court Clerk,
on the opposite, or Flos, side of the road. Arthur first entered the County Council in 1876 as Deputy-reeve of Medonte,
and became reeve in 1878, a position which he held for several years. He was appointed Treasurer of the County in 1897,
and held the position until his death, June 26, 1905, at the age of 63 years.

James Boynton, a native of England, settled on lot 51, in the second concession of Medonte, at an early date.

Although he was thus not on the direct line of the Penetanguishene Road,
there was a by road from it to his place, and accordingly he will be suitably placed here
among the pioneers along the road. In later years, when relating the events of his life
at the period when he moved with his family to this country, he said,

"I had a log shanty, without floor or window; the door was so low I had to creep in on all fours."

As there were no mills near his place, when he raised his first crop of wheat he had to take two stones and pound it,
and from the meal they made a kind of coarse bread.

At other times he would take a bushel of wheat on his back,
with some provisions, and carry it to the mill, many miles distant,
camping out at night. He died September 12, 1873, aged 77 years.

Hillsdale took its rise at an early date at the "regulation" place "where two roads meet,"
being at the point where the Gloucester Road left the Penetanguishene Road,
and exactly half way from Kempenfeldt to Penetanguishene.

In the year 1829, Patrick Murphy, a retired soldier, came to this locality and settled.

He had served under Wellington, and was quite a young man when he received his discharge
with a pension of a "York shilling" a day, owing to a wound he received before the Battle of Waterloo.

He died in 1874.

In the vicinity of Orr Lake, William Archer, a retired soldier, was the first settler,
taking up lot 69 on the Medonte side early in the thirties.

A numerous line of descendants of this name reside in this neighbourhood.

THE LOTS IN TINY-"OLD SURVEY"

Here and there retired soldiers were settled along this Military Road,
with wide intervals of forest between them.

On receiving their quarterly allowance, these pensioners used to make things hum for a while as long
as the pension installment lasted, and the Penetanguishene Road every ninety days was lively.

James Bowden, a veteran soldier, settled early on lot 80, Tiny.

His son-in-law, John Stamp, son of the next pioneer, had this homestead for a time.

Marmaduke Stamp, a native of England, was the first settler on lot 85.

He had not been a soldier, but as a civilian he was a useful person in his day.

We ofter find him recorded as the overseer of the highway from lot 76 to lot 90, especially in the fifties.

He was also a constable, and in other ways attended to the public weal.

Wyebridge took rise at an early period of settlement, the River Wye at this place furnishing good water power for mills.

Angus Grant, who has been referred to in another part of this work as the husband of Catharine McDonald,
the fur trader's daughter, kept an early store here for a time.

He was well educated, and had some good qualities, but did not succeed in business.

Robert Jeffs came with his family from County Armagh, Ireland, in 1820,
to Penetanguishene, and soon after this time his son, Robert Jeffs, jr.,
became one of the first settlers near Wyebridge, on lot 95.

Lot 96 also became their property, the father receiving one and the son the other.

The wife of Robert Jeffs, the younger, was Phoebe Edmonds, the early Indian teacher at Holland Landing.

He taught school at or near Wyebridge for some time, was District Councillor for Tiny in 1843-4-5,
and again in 1849, and in various other ways served the public welfare.

His sister, Hannah Jeffs, became the wife of William Wilson, another pioneer of this neighbourhood,

and in West Gwillimbury, Edward Jeffs, another member of the family, was one of the pioneers of that township.

Arthur Crawford, a retired soldier, settled upon lot 100 in 1819, and was the only settler near the place for a while.

He was a native of Belfast, Ireland, and died about the year 1835.

Descendants of his still reside in this vicinity. Edward and Miles McDonald were the early mail carriers
from Penetanguishene.

Edward was the occupant of lot 114, near the town, for a number of years.

The other brother, Miles, went to St. Vincent Township, or Meaford, and spent the remainder of his life there.

First settlers on the Penetanguishene Road (Tiny and Tay).
(From Waverley to Penetanguishene) (Penetanguishene)

115 Stephen Jeffrey Edward McDonald

114

113

112 Asher Mundy

111
110
109
108
107

106 John Smith, 1828

105

104

103

102

101 George Ludlow Arthur Crawford, 1819

100 William Wilson

99

98 William Cowan

97 Francis Dusome

96 Robert Jeffs, 1820

95 Angus Grant

94

(Wyebridge)

93
92
91
90
89
88
87
86 Marmaduke Stamp
85
84
83
82
81 James Bowden
80
79
78
77
(Waverley)
76 David Bannister, 1829

THE TAY LOTS David Bannister, a retired soldier, settled upon lot 76 at Waverley in 1829.

He had served in Canada during the war of 1812-15, and had been at the Nottawasaga when the "Nancy" was sunk there.

He was a native of Leicestershire, England, and after the war he returned to his fatherland,
but came back to Canada with a wife and settled here.

Down to a late period the Penetanguishene Road passed through a long stretch of woods
from Waverley to Wyebridge. In this lonely part of its course many years ago a tragedy occurred
which has often been narrated, two soldiers having died here from fatigue and musquito bites.

Their regiment was on the march to Penetanguishene, and when near Wyebridge of later times,
one of the men fell ill and was unable to go any further.

His brother remained to take care of him, but the others in the detachment pressed on
and late in the night reached the post at Penetanguishene,

In the morning, finding tbat the two brothers did not reach the post,
a company of soldiers returned along the road to look for them, and on arriving near the place
where they had been left the night before, they found them both dead, lying near together.

Taking up their bodies, their companions carried them (about seven miles) to the post,
and there buried them in the small graveyard on the hillside.

At their graves they erected a headstone with this inscription Erected by their Comrades
to the Memory of PRIVATES JOHN AND SAMUEL M'GARRATY, two brothers late of the 79th Regiment,
who died on the march to this post, on the 2nd of June, 1831, John, aged 25, Samuel, aged 23.
"In the midst of life we are in death"

It is said that one of the men or perhaps both lived until they had arrived at Penetanguishene on a litter,
although the popular account says they were both found dead. John Lethbridge, of Midland,
wrote an account of the tragedy under the title of "Left to die," for which he was awarded the school prize
for Midland Public School in the Montreal Witness competition, 1890,
the article appearing in that newspaper.

Francis Dusome, the contractor for carrying the mails three times a week, owned lot 97 and lived near Wyebridge
in the forties and afterward.

William Cowan, the pioneer on lot 98, has been already referred to in the chapter on the early fur traders.

John Smith, who settled on lot 106, had belonged to the commissariat department at Drummond Island.

PENETANGUISHENE

So abundant are the memories and associations attaching to historical, old Penetanguishene,
that volumes of matter, locally interesting, could be written upon that place alone.

It would, accordingly, be impossible in these sketches to give anything more than an outline
of the first years of that northern town. Many references have already been made to its pioneer days,
in other parts of this work. The first acquaintance of the present European settlers
with the harbour of Penetanguishene was obtained when Governor Simcoe
made his memorable trip to Georgian Bay in 1793.

Little or nothing was, however, done in the way of using it until the war of 1812-15.

Toward the close of that struggle a naval establishment was proposed for that point,
and this may be said to have been the beginning of the town.

Sir George Head was sent to superintend the commissariat duties of the new Establishment,
and in his "Forest Scenes," published several years afterward, narrates his sojourn at Penetanguishene Bay.

(His account occupies thirty octavo pages.) After a brief existence, the whole Establishment was broken up on March 10th, 1815,
and not revived for three years.

The naval and military depot was moved in 1818 from the Nottawasaga River to Penetanguishene.

Ten years passed during which the Establishment was conducted on a limited scale,
and then the place received a sudden expansion by the removal of the military post
from Drummond Island thither, the soldiers being followed by a variegated retinue
of French and half-breed boatmen, traders and pensioners,

• no greater mixture was ever found on any frontier.
• Many particulars of this migration in 1828 have been included in a valuable paper of 44 pages
• by Mr. A.C. Osborne (Papers and Records, Ontario Historical Society, 111.) (1901).
• In other articles, notably in a booklet on Penetanguishene (1907), Mr. Osborne's pen has done good service
• in building up the story of that town's early development.
• A list of the detachments of regular troops stationed here at subsequent times may be found in the Rev. Dr. Scadding's Toronto of Old, p. 503, a book which has an interesting chapter on the place in the early days.
• The Establishment, as it was called, was two miles beyond the centre of the present Town of Penetanguishene, and near the entrance to the harbour. Its situation is one of the most beautiful to be seen anywhere in eastern Canada, commanding as it does an extensive view of the arms of Matchedash Bay, with its picturesque and varied scenery.
• There was a stockade around the old post, but it was ruthlessly removed in the fall of 1906, and another building inside the stockade which was probably a magazine was taken down at the same time.
• A few of the original buildings of the post, are, however, still standing, notably the officers' quarters

(a thick-walled, stone building, a storey and a half high, with loop-holes now bricked up).

The barracks of the troops which surrounded the officers' quarters have all been removed,
But at some distance the dwelling of Adjutant Keating, a hewed-log house of considerable size,
is still standing at a little distance from the shore of the bay.

The interesting little island, known as "Magazine Island," lies immediately in front,
and on it may still be seen the old hewed log building formerly used as the magazine
for the storage of the powder.

The first reduction of the Establishment took place in 1832,
when the naval stores where put up at auction. From time to time reduction went on,
until it came to an end in the early fifties, enrolled pensioners being the last stationed there.

On June 19, 1856, the Ordnance and Admiralty lands in various parts of Canada were transferred to the Province,
and an Act of the Canadian Parliament (19, 20, Vict., c.45) enumerated and classified them.

These included the reserves and barracks at Penetanguishene (5,396 acres),
except that located by enrolled pensioners and under license of occupation to Major Ingall.

This was by far the largest military reserve in Upper Canada, and very soon the Canadian Government
converted it into a farm for a Juvenile Reformatory Prison. In 1859, we find the Reformatory fully established,
and by October, 1860, it contained some 60 boys from various parts of "Canada West"
as this province was then called. For the first few years the building used for the Reformatory
was the old military barracks, in which the boys were cared for under Wm. M. Kelly, the Warden.

A new and imposing structure was erected in 1862-6, and immediately occupied as the Reformatory.

It was built chiefly of sandstone blocks from Quarry Island in the neighbourhood,
but also with some granite and limestone, the central portion rising to a highth of 88 ft. Grants
for the erection of the new edifice were made by the Canadian Government (in addition to maintenance) as follows:

• June, 1862.......................... $16,000
• October, 1863.......................12,000
• June, 1864.............................10,835
• September, 1865..................11,650
• August, 1866.........................17,400
• By the year 1866, there were 150 boys confined within its walls, and its population continued to grow.

Returning now to the early days of the Establishment, from which we have digressed,
officers of many kinds came and went,-"birds of passage,"

we might almost call them,-yet some of those who came with the influx of 1828 from Drummond Island

became permanent residents of the town or its vicinity, and they may well be regarded as its pioneers

and entitled to some notice in these sketches.

To this class belong Lieutenant Carson who was in command of the 68th, brought from Drummond Island,
James Keating the adjutant, Santlaw Rawson, sergeant, and Captain John Moberly, R.N.,
who also came about this time, and was the agent of the Bank of Upper Canada (1836, etc.),
besides being one of the early magistrates. The officers of the Government Indian Department
also came with the others from Drummond Island,- Capt. T.G. Anderson, Indian Agent,
who lived here before going to Coldwater; Dr. David Mitchell, Surgeon-General to the Indian Department,
and William Solomon, Government Interpreter. Many other officers after getting their discharge papers
became settlers in the adjoining parts of the country.

To this class belong James Wickens, of the commissariat staff, and Samuel Richardson, the surveyor, both of whom,
after the reduction of the Establishment about the year 1841, removed southward on the Penetanguishene Road
and settled near Kempenfeldt.

Amongst others who held positions at the Establishment in those early years, was Capt. James O'Brien Boucher.

At the close of the Establishment he took up land at Sutton, on the south side of Lake Simcoe,
subsequently erecting a flouring mill and factories there. Sutton was originally named "Boucher's Mills,"
after this pioneer captain.

Another of those connected with the early naval Establishment at Penetanguishene was Dr. Caldwell.

His widow at a later period, according to Dr. Scadding, lived in Toronto for a length of time.

Of the French-Canadian contingent who followed with the removal of the depot from Drummond Island in 1828,
several became prominent in the early days of Penetanguishene.

Dedin Revolte (Revol) built the first dwelling house in the town itself,
according to one account, although there are two versions of the events;
at any rate M. Revolte was the first French-Canadian to build a house.

In the early days before a priest was regularly residing at the place, he instructed the people in religious matters,
and acted as catechist in reading the service on Sundays.

He also spent much time and means to instruct the Indians who were then so numerous in the neighbourhood,
and mostly pagans.

J.B. Trudeau was the blacksmith for the Naval Depot, and was about 35 years of age when the removal took place.

Charles Vasseur was one of the soldiers, or at least had been one before the removal.

It is said of him that he bought the first cow and the first yoke of oxen
from the frontier part of the province to the new settlement at Penetanguishene.

Louis Colombes (Columbus) became the reeve of the united townships of Tiny and Tay in 1860-1,
and was again reeve of Tiny in 1872.

In the paper by Mr. Osborne already mentioned, which deals more particularly with the FrenchCanadian contingent
from Drummond Islandand their interesting experiences as canoemen and traders,
there are to be found narratives by Louis Solomon, Michael Labatte, Mrs. Rosette Boucher,
Jean Baptiste Sylvestre,
Antoine Labatte and Angelique Langlade.

The statements of these people have been permanently recorded by Mr. Osborne, with much expenditure of time and trouble,
and the reader will find much interesting information in them.

Penetanguishene had been frequented by fur traders since the first permanent establishment of the
military and naval depot there in 1818. William Beausoliel, trader, in 1819 settled on the island which bears his name,
although the maps persist in calling it "Prince William Henry," while everyone calls it Beausoliel.

George Gordon, a Scotch trader who had been at Drummond Island at an earlier time, settled at the point a mile
beyond the barracks in 1825, then built a house in Penetanguishene two or three years afterward, which was said
to be the first house built in the town. Mr. Osborne's paper contains numerous particulars of this pioneer who died in 1852.

Two descendants of Dr. David Mitchell, the Surgeon-General to the Indian Department,
became prominent in the early days of Penetanguishene, viz., Andrew Mitchell who built the first store in the place,
and George Mitchell, who was Superintendent of Schools and died in 1868. Mitchell,
the early storekeeper, was one of the moving spirits in the building of the first steamer
at Penetanguishene in or about the year 1832.

William Simpson, the trader, was the first District Councillor for Tiny and Tay in 1843, going to Toronto
to attend the meetings of the Home District Council. Asher Mundy, who has already been mentioned in another chapter,
kept the first canteen for the soldiers.

Then Stephen Jeffrey had a second canteen, and was innkeeper in the early days at the town itself.

He owned a vessel in the first period of the town's history.

From an early time there were three stores in the place, and in 1847 Edward Jeffrey added another.

George Copeland had the first saw and grist mills, although there is an account of an earlier sawmill
built at the head of the bay by Wm. Robinson.

Much has been written at different times literary visitors to that place, a partial list of whom is here given:
John Galt, Rev. Peter Jones, John Carruthers, Dr. Thos. Rolph, Mrs. Anna Jameson, Capt. Bonnycastle,
Rev. A.W.H. Rose, Sandford Fleming, Dr. Scadding, and others.

To reproduce the interesting references to the early harbour and town made in the writings of these people,
would require more space than is at our command.

The religious welfare of the people does not appear to have been neglected in the early years.

Ministers of all denominations on various occasions would journey thither to preach to the soldiers stationed there,
and Walton's Directory for 1833-4 informs us that Rev. Lawrence Dempsey was the R.C. clergyman of Penetanguishene
and the adjacent townships.

The same volume also states that the Bank of Upper Canada had an agent there at that time in the person of Andrew Mitchell, Esq.

Coming down to later years, W.H. Smith, in "Canada: Past, Present and Future,"
gives a list of those in business at Penetanguishene in 1850,
viz.: George Copeland, W.B. Hamilton, E. Jeffrey, Wm. Simpson, and Alfred A. Thompson.

Capt. James Matthew Hamilton of the 5th Reg. of Foot came to Penetanguishene about the year 1830,
and was a prominent citizen there in the early years.

His son, William Basil Hamilton, entered into partnership with James Darling and carried on a general store.

He was District Councillor for Tiny in 1846-7-8, a Justice of the Peace, and held other public offices.

On the construction of the railway to Collingwood in 1854, he removed thither, and entered the sawmill business.

He held various public positions in Collingwood, being the first mayor in 1858. He died October 28, 1891.

Among other well known men of Penetanguishene in the early days, were two brothers,
Alfred A. Thompson and Henry H. Thompson. Mr. A.A. Thompson was appointed a Justice of the Peace,
April 3, 1857, and held various positions of trust during his life, which closed somewhat suddenly April 28, 1885.

His son, Alfred B. Thompson, was first elected to the Ontario Legislature for Centre Simcoe in 1898,
and is the present member for the constituency.

 

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AIRLIE - A Post-Office, Lot 25, 1st Con., Township of Tossorontio. Honsberger, J.J., prop saw-mills} Sullivan, Joseph, hotel-keeper Lee, G.B., P.M., store-keeper } __________________________
ALLENDALE - A village and station of the Northern Railway,
in the Township of Innisfil, one mile south of Barrie.

The village was settled in 1846 by John Boon, Collingwood Harris,
N. King, Bernard Sheridan, Wm. Hamill and Thomas McMahon.

Population about 300.

Bieman & Douglas, prop, shingle }

Gibson, James, mason and stave factory. }

Hamlin, Ambrose Bescoby, Edward, conductor }

Harrison, --, stave and shingle N.R. }
factory Bescoby, George, employee, N.R. }
Hickey, Robert, carpenter Bishop, N.H., assistant P.M., }
Jacobs, J. general merchant. (See adv.) }
Little, W.C., M.P.P. Boon, John, prop. Railway }
McMahon, Mrs. Hotel, (See adv.) }
Miscampbell, Andw., P.M. Boon, W.M., prof. instrumental }
Morrow, John C., prop. flouring music. (See adv.) }
mills Brawley, Samuel, boarding house }
Naylor, James, baggage master Brazel, Charles, blacksmith }
Portas, T.H. Brooks, Stanley, blacksmith }
Railway Hotel, John Boon, Brown's Hotel, J.M. Brown, }
proprietor. (See adv.) proprietor. (See adv.) }
Ross, Miss Flora, telegraph Brown, James M., proprietor }
operator, station Brown's Hotel }
Ross, G., foreman blacksmith N.R.C. Callaghan, Hugh, shoemaker }
Ross, John, station agent Christie, Wm., shoemaker }
Ross, John, J.P., Com. in B.R.,
Croxon, Henry, proprietor }
issuer marriage licenses, See card Royal Hotel } Ross, John J., prop. saw mills. Cullen, Samuel, hotel-keeper } See card. Dodson, R., road master N.R.C. }
Smith, Andrew, assistant baggage Fletcher, William, teacher }
master. Fraser, Henry, late proprietor }
Soules, W.P., groceries, liquors, Exchange, Barrie }
&c. See adv. N. H. BISHOP. GENERAL MERCHANT, DEALER IN GROCERIES, WINES, Liquors, &c., Ready-made Clothing, Boots and Shoes, ALLENDALE ______________________________________
BROWN'S HOTEL, JAMES M. BROWN, PROPRIETOR, ALLENDALE ______________________________________
WILLIAM BOON, MUSCIAN. Brass and Quadrille Bands furnished on liberal terms. ALLENDALE ______________________________________
W. P. SOULES, Dealer in Choice Groceries, Wines and Liquors
-- Farm Produce Bought and Sold. ALLENDALE _______________________________________
RAILROAD (PICTURE) HOTEL. JOHN BOON,
- - - - PROPRIETOR ALLENDALE STATION _______________________________________
JOHN ROSS, Commissioner in Queens's Bench
- Issuer of Marriage Licenses. ALLENDALE STATION _______________________________________
JOHN J. ROSS, Lumber Merchant - Shingles, Lath, &c., Always on Sale ALLENDALE STATION

 

ALLISTON - An important and thriving Village situate on the corners of the townships of Tecumseth, Essa, Tossorontio and Adjala, and in one of the most fertile sections of the county. The Hamilton and North Western, and the South Simcoe Junction Railway will, in all probability, pass through the village. The Nottawasaga river affords excellent water power, and there are several large saw mills in the immediate vicinity. Alliston was first settled by the Fletcher family, about the year 1849. Distance from Angus station, 11 miles; from Gilford, by stage, 18; and from Toronto, 59. Population, about 600. Ferguson's sash factory employs an engine of ten horse power, and averages five hands. Aitken and Knight's foundry employs ten hands, and has an engine of ten horse power. Abrams, John, butcher } Fletcher, George, P.M., Aiken & Knight, Alliston } lumber merchant. See adv. foundry } Fletcher, John, farmer and mill Aiken, James, (Aiken & Knight) } owner Allen, James, blacksmith } Fletcher, Wm., prop. flour and grist Allen, John, livery } mills Allen, Lot, teamster } Foy, Patrick, prop. Farmer's Alliston Hotel, Edward } Inn. See adv Conway, prop. See adv } Gee, Rev., D.E.F., Wesleyan Apperley, Wm., painter } Gilbert, John, watchmaker Beale, Thos, painter } Hand, Wm. C., prop. Dominion Beale, Wm., photographer } Hotel - auctioneer. See adv Bovaire, Philip, labourer } Haugh, Charles, farmer Brown, Wm., saddler } Higgins, Patrick, laborer Burridge, John, mail carrier } Hill, Lewis, teacher Byers, Mrs. } Hodgson, John, pump-maker Cairns, Wm., hotel keeper } Hodgson, T.P., pumpmanufacturer Cassidy, Thos., saddler } and lumber dealer. See adv Chatfield, John, carpenter } Hogan, Samuel, laborer Chaffey, R.S., M.D. } Jones, James, stoves and tinConway, Edward, prop. Alliston } ware. See adv Hotel. See adv. } Hope, R.C., miller Couen, Charles, general } Kelly, P.D., conveyancer, &c. merchant. See adv. } See card Davey, John } Kenzie, Alex., cabinet maker Davey, Wm., laborer } Knowles, Rev. Robert, PresbyDillane, M., waggon maker } terian Dominion Hotel, W.C. } Lalor, John, laborer Hand, prop. See adv. } Lawrence, ---- baker Dunham, Joseph, carpenter } Lee, Fred., operator, Mon. Tel. Farmer's Inn, P. Foy, prop. } Co. See adv. } McCarthy, M.C., pub. "Star." Ferguson, Angus, builder } McChasney, Isaac, blacksmith sash factory. See adv. } McDonald, Isaac, carpenter Fields, Wm., farmer } McDougall, James, sawyer McGirr, George, ag't Com. Per. } STAR THE, Thursday, George Bldg. and Savings' Society } Fletcher, proprietor. McKee, Hugh, painter } Stewart, John, druggist, inMcLean, A., tailor } surance agent, Commissioner in MacWhinney, Wm., saddler } B.R., Issuer of Marriage Licenses Maginnes, Hugh, carpenter } Segar, John, engineer Menzie, Archibald, moulder } Sheppard, George, farmer Mitchell, Alex., bricklayer } Smith, ----- music teacher Morrison, James, farmer } Strachan, James Nolan, Edward, farmer } Strachan, John, boots and shoes Pinkerton, Joseph, farmer } Walker, Mrs., milliner Poole, Wm., wagon maker } Watson, J.H., M.D. Rayson, Joseph, dry goods and } Westgate, Henry, miller groceries } Wiggins, Robert, farmer Ritchey, E.J., general merchant } Wright, Wm., carpenter Robinson, Robert, bailiff } Young, Wm., shoemaker ____________________________________ JAMES JONES DEALER IN STOVES, TIN, SHEET IRON AND COPPER WARE, COAL OIL, LAMPS, &C. Also -- Wool, Sheepskins, Hides, Wool Pickings, &c., ALLISTON

 

___________________________________ ALLISTON HOTEL, EDWARD CONWAY, - - - - PROPRIETOR Good Accommodation for Guests -- Sample Rooms for Commercial Travellers ALLISTON ___________________________________ DOMININON HOTEL Wm. C. HAND, ----------- PROPRIETOR ALLISTON William C. Hand, Licensed Auctioneer ___________________________________ FARMER'S INN PATRICK FOY, ----------- PROPRIETOR Victoria Street, Alliston ___________________________________ CHARLES COUEN, DEALER IN Dry Goods, Groceries, Crockery, Ready-made Clothing, Millnery, Boots and Shoes, Hats, Caps, &c. Grain and all kinds of Produce taken in exchange. ALLISTON ________________________________ ALLISTON SASH, DOOR AND BLIND FACTORY _______ Angus Ferguson, Builder and Contractor, Proprietor Every Article in the above line constantly on hand and made to order. ORDERS PROMPTLY EXECUTED ALLISTON _________________________________ GEORGE FLETCHER LUMBER MERCHANT AND MANUFACTURER ALLISTON Lath and Lumber on hand and for sale, and cut to order __________________________________ T.P. HODGSON, ALLISTON, ONT., MANUFACTURER OF

 

Swing, Suction, Force, Lever, and Improved Patent Cylinder Pumps -- Warranted for one year -- Cisterns made to order. ORDERS BY MAIL PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO ______________________________________ ALPORT - A Post Office in the Muskoka District, 70 miles from Barrie, and 120 from Toronto. Brickmore, Henry, Farmer } Scholey, George, Farmer Campbell, Robert, Farmer } Stephens, Henry, Farmer Colles, Sir W.H.G. } Stephens, Richard, Farmer Ennis, Robert, Farmer } Stephens, Thomas, Farmer Long, James, Farmer } Taylor, Wm., H., P.M. ________________________ ANGUS - A Village and Station of the Northern Railway, on Lot 30, Tonwship of Essa, between the Nottawasaga and Pine Rivers, 12 miles from Barrie, and 22 from Collingwood. The rivers supply excellent power, which, to the equivalent of 70 horse, is used by two extensive sawmills, which employ about 50 men and manufacture about 25,000 feet of lumber per day. Population about 500. Arnold, Wm., Blacksmith } Fraser, E.E., teacher Beaton, John, Sawyer } Furlong, James, hairdresser Belfry, Ira, Prop. Dominion } Gordon, Joseph, lumber merchant House. (See adv.) } Graham, James, Railroad Hotel Boyes, F.D., General Merchant } Harris, John, track foreman (See adv.) } Hewlett, Wm., blacksmith Blain, Thomas, Engineer sawmill } Howey, W.H., painter Brown, Jas. R., P.M., General } King, Wm., sen'r., engineer, saw- Merchant. } mill. Bush, John L.T., Proprietor } King, Wm., tinsmith, copper and Bush's Hotel. (See adv.) ] sheet iron ware Bush, Jonas T., real estate ag't. } Lawrence, George, baker Chapin, Thos. F., station ag't. } McCrimmon, Wm., wheelwright Cooper, Alexander, general } McGuane, Francis, laborer merchant. Com. in B.R. } McIntyre, Dugald, boots and shoes (See adv.) } McIvor, Sinclair, engineer sawDominion Hotel., Ira Beltry } mill proprietor. (See adv.) } McKimmie, John, manager J. Dominion Telegraph Co., } B. SMith J.R. Brown, agent } McLandress, Duncan, lumberman Doupe, Joseph, C.F., provincial } McLandress, John, lumberman land surveyor and Insurance ag't } Mills, George, sawyer Elliot, John, tailor } Moffatt & Barclay, flour mills Emerick, Robert, switchman } Nelson, Irving, general merFisk, S.B., sawmill } chant. (See adv.) Foster, Robert, proprietor Queen's } Nesbitt, F.L., M.D. Hotel } Price, Charles, shoemaker Foster, Samuel, proprietor Northern } Hotel Smith, John B., general mer- } Stevens, Richard, blacksmith chant, saw-mill proprietor - J. } Still, Charles, boots and shoes McKimmie, manager. (See adv.) } Tomlinson, Joseph, painter Smith, J.M., superintendent } Wade, Robert, chemist and saw-mill J.B. Smith } druggist, (See adv.) ___________________________________ ROBERT WADE Chemist and Druggist. Importer and dealer in Drugs, Chemicals, Dye Stuffs, Perfumery, Patent Medicines, &c., ANGUS _______________________________________ F. D. BOYES, ANGUS, DEAKER IN Dry Goods, Groceries, Crockery, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Patent Medicines, Grain and General Merchandise