The Early History of Elora, Ontario and Vicinity

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

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pp. 3-

A few years ago my old friend and teacher, Mr. David Boyle, Secretary of the Ontario Historical Society and Curator of the Ontario Provincial Museum in Toronto, was visiting in Elora. He took the first opportunity ...

PART I.-FIRST THINGS

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pp. 5-18

There is an element of romance about first things. They have a charm of novelty and freshness. As items of biographical interest they cannot be superseded, for however important any similar later experience may be, it can never be the first of that kind. That place is permanently occupied. ...

Township of Pilkington

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pp. 19-45

The first to settle, and make a clearing, in what is now the township of Pilkington was one by the name of William Wolcott, an American. He came about the year 1817 and was the first to occupy that farm, Lot 1, on the 2nd Concession east of the Grand River, which has since been the home of so many. ...

Its Early History

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pp. 46-109

A few yards up stream from the south end of Victoria Bridge, in Elora, a small creek joins the river. Before all the trees were chopped this stream never ceased to flow, for it was fed by many springs and the water from that flat, wet land on top of the hill. Now it is dried up for the greater part of the ...

Its Early History Continued.

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pp. 110-190

It has already been told how, on the first day of December, 1817, Roswell Matthews became the first settler in Elora. That he and his family lived here for nine years or more, that, having been disappointed in not receiving the deed for the land which was promised them by the owner of the Township ...

LISTS

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pp. 191-199

ELORA (poem)

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