- 2026-10-08Etienne Augustin de la Morandière, fur trader and founder of Killarney, settled here in 1820, when this locality, on the…
- 2026-10-08The earliest settlers in this area, Joseph La Rocque-Brune and Raymond Duffaut, had located by 1791. Five years later Nathaniel…
- 2026-10-08Parts of Mersea Township were surveyed in the 1790s, but it was not until 1833 that Alexander Wilkinson, who had…
- 2026-10-08Among the earliest settlers on the site of Listowel was John Binning who, tradition has it, became the community's first…
- 2026-10-08In 1851 George Brown, founder of the Toronto Globe and one of Canada's Fathers of Confederation, purchased about 1620 ha…
- 2026-10-08In 1862, the Muskoka Road, a colonization route built to open this region for settlement, was completed to the first…
- 2026-10-08Chinguacousy Township, part of the Mississauga Indian tract, was surveyed in 1819. John Elliott, John Scott and William Buffy were…
- 2026-10-08In the 1820s, significant improvements to the Hamilton and London Road attracted settlers to the Indian lands at Brant's Ford…
- 2026-10-08In 1854, William Ainley purchased two hundred acres of land here on the Middle Branch of the Maitland River. The…
- 2026-10-08In 1793, Stephen and Daniel Burritt, two brothers from Arlington, Vermont, settled in this vicinity. A bridge, sawmill and school…