Queenstown And The Falls

"Queenstown is the key to the trade of the Western Lakes...".

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Circa 1812 Map (Queenstown In The Middle) (LOC)

Diary From A Resident Of Sombra Township

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Inception Of The Canada Company

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"...the belief was 'Niagara must be considered the utmost limit west ward capable of cultivation.' In a word, the country had so far been considered only fit to produce peltries and pine masts. This wish to recompense the losses sustained by those colonists who had so faithfully served the parent overnment took active form in the inception of the Canada Company."

"The British officers who returned after the war had told those at home that although description had been true in calling the colony a "vast solitude," it was by no means " a hopeless wilderness." It is true, so late as 1804, Upper Canada had County Lieutenants, and a Domesday Book which contained records of grants of land from the beginning of the organization of that province in 1792. The still familiar name of Baby figured there as County Lieutenant for Kent."

Henry Hay's "Christmas" Present

Hay's Journal Entry for December 26, 1789, in Fort Wayne:

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James Abbott, the father of Elizabeth (Betsey) Abbott Baby, 1777-1812, "gave" Henry Hay "his daughter Betsy over the bottle."

Grand Jurymen Were Called From Both Sides Of The River

Upper Canada Sketches:

"...September 3, 1792, 'His Majesty's Court of Oyer and Terminer, and General Gaol Delivery' opened at L'Assomption (now Sandwich, Ontario)... ."

"Grand Jurymen were called from both sides of the river--the Judge himself resided in Detroit--an inquisition was filed on the death at Michillinackinac of an Indian man Wawanisse, another respecting Pierre Lalonde killed at Saguina (Saginaw) by Louis Roy, another of the murder at Detroit of Pierre Grocher by an Indian man called Guillet--there had been also a murder of David Lynd, alias Jacko, on the River La Tranche (the present Thames) by two Indians."

"True bills were found by the Grand Jury against Louis Roy, Guillet and Josiah Cutan of Detroit (for burglary). Roy was acquitted of murder... . Cutan, a coloured man, was found, guilty of burglary at Ste. Anne's and sentenced to death. Guillet was not arrested nor were the two Indians who slew Jacko."

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*See Source Link For Additional Information (including the names of J. Bondy and Francois Gamelin)

Mrs. Thomas Bondy

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This one?  Or this one?  Or neither?

Mrs. Antoine Bondy

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Peter Jones At Upper Muncey

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"...possessed 9,000 acres in Caradoc. At Upper Muncey or Colborne, at Old Munceytown, and at Bear Creek, on the north line of the reservation, were their settlements." [Source]

Below is an excerpt from the Life And Journals of Keh-ke-wa-guo-na-ba (Rev. Peter Jones), Published In 1860:

"When our council and meeting was over we travelled on to George Turkey's. We suffered much from hunger this day, having eaten nothing but a bowl of corn soup which Widow Dolson, at Lower Muncey, gave us, and we were very thankful to get even this coarse meal. Spent the night at George Turkey's, with whom we conversed on the things of religion; who informed us that he was willing to become a Christian. He and Chief Westbrook agreed to allow us to commence a school amongst them at Upper Muncey; so we concluded to leave our young friend *John Carey, and at once begin a school." [1825] [Source]

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George Turkey [born and raised at Chenango, New York c.1757; fl. 1776-1828], Munsee/Delaware chief; moved to Upper Canada in 1776; fought for the British in the War of 1812; lived at Upper Muncey on the Thames River, May 26, 1825...[Source]

Early Records In Niagara

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Is my Mary (maiden name unknown) Howard who was born in Canada circa 1791, hiding in plain sight in these records?  

Proceeded To St. Catharine's

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 By Thomas Need, Susanna Moodie

British Colonel McKee

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Col. Alexander McKee was Indian Agent at [or near] Pittsburg-before the Revolutionary War, after the outbreak-of which he was imprisoned by the revolutionists at Pittsburg. He effected his escape and co-operated with Sir John Johnson among the Indians, becoming Deputy Superintendent-General. In 1778 he traveled through the Indian territory to Detroit, and greatly assisted in maintaining friendly relations between the tribes and the British Crown. He was a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas at Detroit. His services were greatly appreciated by Lord Dorchester, and in his death on the 14th January, 1799, the, service lost an able and devoted officer. [Source]


McKee was listed as a British Officer at Malden.

Ontario, Canada's Howard Township

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So Howard Township in Kent County, Ontario, Canada, wasn't named for Martha Howard and her son, William Howard, my presumed ancestors.  Huh.  [I already knew that, though]

Early History Of Amherstburg

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"We see therefore that in 1784 settlement of the Malden township first began, in a somewhat irregular manner. The settlers were not exactly squatters, they had the consent of the Indians, the recognition of the Lientenant-Governor of Detroit, and, apparently, the approval of the Governor of Quebec. Their settlement was to be known as Fredericksburg, whether after Sir Frederick Haldimand or after Frederick, the son of George III, cannot be stated."


A Land Board was established as another step taken to organize the area:

She Was Known As Ribbons

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"C.G., 42 years.  English Eight years in Canada and city.  Father a respectable and fairly well-known business man--left each child some little sum of money."

"...rag-picking..."

known by the name of "Ribbons"

Inmates in Orillia, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, in 1901.

Count Or Counterfeit

Count or Counterfeit in Tales, Sketches and Lyrics,  By R. J. MacGeorge; this publication was first encountered by me in the following paragraph:

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Rev. Howard In Peter Jones' Book

History of the Ojebway Indians: With Especial Reference to Their Conversion ...,  By Peter Jones:

The Rev. I. B. Howard was affiliated with the Rev. Dr. Ryerson, so I believe the "T.B." might be "I.B." Howard.

On Wast Constant!

Colin of the ninth concession: a tale of Scottish pioneer life in eastern Ontario (1903):

Chapter I, Auld Peggy's Story:

"....husband hed deserted her an' ran aff wit' a bold-faced hussy tae a place in the States that they ca'd Wast Constant [Wisconsin]...."

Mazo's Autobiography, Ringing The Changes

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A review of Ringing The Changes, an autobiography by Mazo de la Roche, is online at the blog, Leaves And Pages.

There is a Mazo de la Roche Society that is "dedicated to providing a forum to revisit Mazo de la Roche, a prolific Canadian writer."

See The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche film clip here.

Another interesting blog post about Mazo can be found at Inkwell Inspirations.

A fire in 2014 at her Toronto home on Yorkville Avenue was mentioned here.

Mazo's FindAGrave memorial.

If....

Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling as seen in book about Empire Day In Ontario:

If you can keep your head when all about you.....


IF--

     If you can keep your head when all about you
     Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
     If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
     But make allowance for their doubting too;
     If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
     Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
     Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
     And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

     If you can dream--and not make dreams your master;
     If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim,
     If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
     And treat those two impostors just the same;
     If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
     Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
     Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
     And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;

     If you can make one heap of all your winnings
     And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
     And lose, and start again at your beginnings
     And never breathe a word about your loss;
     If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
     To serve your turn long after they are gone,
     And so hold on when there is nothing in you
     Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

     If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
     Or walk with Kings--nor lose the common touch,
     If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
     If all men count with you, but none too much;
     If you can fill the unforgiving minute
     With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
     Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
     And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

Colonel James Askin: Born In Detroit

Colonel James Askin was born in Detroit; the Askin family moved across the river into Canada, where they continued to be prominent in the area.

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Colonel James Askin was born in Detroit in 1788. He was a colonel of militia stationed in Sandwich some years previous and up to 1858. Was Registrar of Deeds for Essex from 1831 to 1846. He died in 1862/3.

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