- 2026-10-08The grist-mill built at Point Cardinal by Hugh Munro about 1796 fostered the development here of a small settlement. A…
- 2026-10-08The families of Edmond Morphy and William Moore became, in 1819, the first settlers on the site of Carleton Place.…
- 2026-10-08A small settlement, "Sconeville," developed here following the erection of mills on the Saugeen River by Adam Elliot in 1858-59.…
- 2026-10-08In 1792-94 a village grew up near Fort Chippawa on Chippawa Creek at the end of the new portage road…
- 2026-10-08The earliest settlers on this site had arrived by 1834. Peter Vanderburgh opened a tavern north of here at the…
- 2026-10-08Saw and grist mills erected in this area during the first decade of the 19th century fostered the development here…
- 2026-10-08For centuries the site of Cochrane was used by indigenous peoples as a summer camping ground. Later it became a…
- 2026-10-08A store established here about 1819 by Joseph Abbott Keeler, a prominent early settler, provided the nucleus around which a…
- 2026-10-08In June 1784, disbanded Loyalist soldiers and their families settled at New Johnstown, the site of present-day Cornwall. Initially called…
- 2026-10-08In 1846, Daniel van Allan, a Chatham merchant, laid out a town plot on land purchased from Jared Lindsley, the…