History of the Settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario): With Special Reference to the Bay Quinté · Selected pages · Contents · Other editions - View all · Common ...

Canada is a nation that has a long history of welcoming refugees. Loyalists, Mennonites, Blacks, Irish and Confederate Soldiers have all, at one time, sought ...

... land which was described as the town of Freetown.[1] Walker Tisdale ... first settlement in Canada of U. E. Loyalists was effected.[3]. We also learn ...

Other colonists were attracted by the ample land and provisions in the north. ... In 1801, Canada's first Mennonite congregation was established. Campden Post ...

The Long Point Settlers website is dedicated to the history and genealogy of the early families in Norfolk County Ontario, Canada

Pierce and Associates has a name in history as one of the most ambitious of the settlement groups formed to assist prospective immigrants to Upper Canada. The ...

... were enslaved by the United Empire Loyalists who settled in Niagara. Chloe ... This incident was used to introduce legislation to abolish slavery in Upper Canada.

This branding iron was used to mark the heads of wooden flour barrels at the Servos grist mill, the first government grist mill in Upper Canada.

A later decision in Council then sometimes resulted and was appended to the original order on the petition. The Justices who issued the earliest certificates of ...

The earliest mention of Long Point as a desirable settlement came from John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (present day Ontario) ...

The Niagara Settlers website is dedicated to the history and genealogy of the early families in the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada

Peter may have also been the first European to settle in Niagara. Land Grant ... was purchased by Canada Crushed Stone Company Limited. Usher Cement ...

Nov 7, 2012 ... Polynesia was one of the last places on Earth to be settled by humans, and new techniques reveal that this settlement first occurred within ...

The settlers from Mexico City were joined by families that previous owned land in the area prior to 1680. After a difficult first decade, the town and ...

... Canada. Treaty 7. The Dominion of Canada, eager to secure land for the Canadian Pacific Railway, sought lasting settlements with First Nations in the West.

... was the first loyalist to settle in village, ca. 1780. Robert Hamilton ... Canada, Major-General Isaac Brock, was killed. The province decided to ...

In 1680, the “Pueblo Indians” revolted against the Spanish, forcing the settlers to retreat to present-day Mexico. Although New Mexico was re-conquered by the ...

THE TOWN OF CHARLOTTEVILLE [1]. It is not generally known that Turkey Point was at first designed as the commercial and governmental metropolis of Upper Canada.

Where or when he died, or whether he died childless or not, are matters of family history unknown to his relatives in Canada. Isaac Culver, younger son of Jabez ...

... was] one of the first settlers of Woburn [Mass. in 1640].... His wife Priscilla, died April 10, 1687. He left two sons, John and Joseph, born before the ...