Of possible
particular interest, Mr. Cardiff has provided a map with links to
towns in the Long Point area from the 1877 Illustrated Atlas of
Norfolk County which identifies the individual tracts of land
along with the owners' names:
Township Maps
In addition to a vast array of
material on Long Point, the Norfolk County Public Library Search feature
returns dozens of titles of interest to our region:
hhttp://tinyurl.com/jxb4hos.
Looking to identify individual tracts of land for a particular family?
From McGill University's excellent 'The
Canadian County Atlas Digital Project' which digitized illustrated Ontario
county atlases of the late 1800's. Search by map location or by
name.
Free
download in formats
including Kindle,
PDF, Torrent, ePub.
NNote:
As of January 13, 2017, the Eva Brook Donly Museum is closed.
This issue is still being examined and it's possible this might not be
a permanent closure. Check their website to determine what their
status is before you arrive on site.
Grand
River Branch
maintains its Loyalist Library at the
Eva Brook Donly Museum in Simcoe.
Along with a wide variety of titles, topics and resources related to UEL
history and genealogical data in general, we also are pleased to have
a wealth of information pertaining to the Long Point Settlement and
the surrounding areas.
We
invite you to
drop by and browse our collection! Here's the catalogue of
material we have on file for your research, study or interest in our
area: (As of
JAN 2017):
Free
download in formats
including Kindle,
PDF, Torrent, ePub.
Upper Canada ~ London
District circa 1800
London District - The London District was a
historic district in Upper Canada. It was formed in 1798 from the counties
of Middlesex, Norfolk, Oxford which were originally parts of the Home and
Western Districts. The district town was Charlotteville, but moved to
Vittoria in 1815 and finally London in 1826.
Also, in 1826, the townships
of Rainham and Walpole were moved to Haldimand County in Niagara District
because of their distance from London. In 1837, Oxford County was
separated into a new Brock District and Norfolk County was separated to
form Talbot District. In 1838, Huron District, was formed, containing
Huron County which had been created in 1835. In 1849, the district was
replaced by Middlesex County.
Link
Many Grand River
Branch members are descendants of the Loyalist settlers of the area to the
north of Long Point, which is a rather imposing 32 kilometre (19.8 mile) sand
spit extending into Lake Erie. Along the shoreline of the mainland,
communities grew aided by the rich farmlands which enjoyed a more
temperate climate. The proximity of a large body of water would warm
the lands in the winter and provide a refreshing breeze during the heat of
summer; Long Point Bay offered a relatively safe harbour as well as easy
access to the resources of fish in Lake Erie.
More
or less simultaneously, these settlements spread out and inland from
around the areas of Port Rowan to Port Ryerse to Port Dover.
Eventually, they would occupy the most southerly tier of
concessions in Walsingham, probably all of Charlotteville and Woodhouse
and well into the area east and west of the boundary between Windham and
Townsend, basically the great part of both townships (probably more
densely in Townsend) at least as far north as in and about Round Plains.
Despite the hardship and privation, the
Long Point area must have held great potential to the original Loyalist
settlers who escaped their homelands which held such little promise after
the revolution.
Click on the map below for a list of
the Loyalist families of the Long Point Settlement, with a brief
background on each.
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