- 2026-10-08When opening Blanshard Township for settlement in 1839, the Canada Company made an arrangement with Thomas Ingersoll, a brother of…
- 2026-10-08Settlement on this site began with the arrival in 1854 of the Toronto, Simcoe and Lake Huron Union Railroad (later…
- 2026-10-08French-speaking settlers from the Detroit-Sandwich area and Lower Canada (Quebec) were the first to locate in Tilbury West Township after…
- 2026-10-08In 1805-06, Abraham Stouffer (1780-1851), a Pennsylvania Mennonite, acquired 400 acres of land in this area. By 1824, he had…
- 2026-10-08In 1832, some three years after company surveyors had erected shanties near this site, the Canada Company, a large private…
- 2026-10-08In 1830 James Buchanan, the British Consul at New York City, acquired a tract of 485 ha of unsettled land…
- 2026-10-08The development of Sturgeon Falls began in 1881 with the arrival of Canadian Pacific Railway constructions teams and the opening…
- 2026-10-08The establishment of a Canadian Pacific Railway work camp here in 1883 stimulated the growth of a frontier community. Within…
- 2026-10-08Soon after the survey of Arran Township was completed in 1851, John Hamilton and Richard Berford, early settlers in the…
- 2026-10-08The intersecting of the Tecumseh Road, named for the eminent Indian leader, by the Great Western Railroad line in 1854…