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KINGSPON, Frontenac County, oc- cupies the site 0! the Indian vinase Mi nnd of the French fort ton-o bum than, 1073. On Sep- HAMILTON. Wontwnrlh County. is named after George Hamilton, son of Honorable Robert Hamilton, who moved to the district from Niagara in 1812 and bought land there. In 1813 be divided a portion of his farm into building lots and his surname was given to the village. . The first lots said were on John street, south 0! King. Ontario Historical Society Papers and Records, Vol. [IL-1907, GL'EIJ’H. \Vellimrton County, was named hy John Ualt, April 23, 1827, after the family name of the Royal House of Brunswick. It was after sunset. when the site selected for the town was reached. There "a large maple was chosen: on which taking an ax from one of the Wood- men I struck the first stroke. . . .after the tree fell....the doctor pulled a flask of whiskey from his bosom and we drank prosperity to the city of Guelph. The name was chosen in compliment to the Royal Family. both because I thought it auspicious in itself, and because I could not recollect that it hail ever been be- fore ions.‘ iuuo- a,.\h.~'ulum Shane's Mills till [827 “him it was Chainâ€"'01! on {hr i_n_'-r:1~'iuii of a Visit from the) novelist. "H“ “11' 22nd of April‘.... ..I Wont to (-air ...... “hit in my friend Honourâ€" aiilr \\iiliam [Hi'kSHIL .......namml 8H“! m. inn: imioru the Canada eiumpany was imagined; it was ar- riwci at (hr maturity of having a limit ufl'irv before I heard of its 93:- isinnce." MALT, \Vatm'lm) County, takes its nanw from John Galt (1779-1839; the va‘lisli nnwlist. H» was commis- ~'i~::o-r ul‘ tlw Canada Company and [Rod in Canada “mm 1826 to 1829. 'l'lw city was funneled by William Diwkso‘m. a svhool fellow of Gall, and hail [Hist Hll'im' was ”pound in IBM}. Hmwwvr. Hu- sutllcrs callml the vil- lauo- (Alisulum Slmaalu's Mills till 1827 “llt'll it was ('hauchl on lhv lâ€"N.'l'11"l”ll Of {I Visit from Hm nnvnliql New Light uu the Early History of 1m Urcatvr .VOI'tlnvcst, New York; MU}. p. 322. A letter from George H. Hunk. dated Leech Lake, April 18 mu: {312155011 Papers, McUill Uni- \"I‘iiU' I'm'oel's to ”Furl William.’ “Mum: Mct‘jillivray succoodm. l’wto-r Pnnul as a partner in the North Wm! tjnnwany about, 1790; membex ur Hw Hmlsv 0f Asso’mbly of Lower clnnaola Jun» 18. 18: ”ember. 1809.‘ M' Mcmtt'val Wost; member Legis- {21?in (Immcil Hf Lower Canada Juno 19. 181 i. Uctuber 16, 1825, on which dz)!“ “9‘ JUN! in Scotland. 'l‘hame: ._:..~t: .c: m. Engiaud. l-‘uiil‘ \\ ILLIAM emum-Inmates “1.1.311; Mununin}; em- ut' the leadillg Incuuwx': Hi the Nurth West Luna-uh) \\ n» «Li'ecied the eunstl'uc- Hum 01 {he mm on the Kamimstvikwia Nchl' tn sen e as the et.rnlpally's headquarters instead ut’ Grand Purl- age In Milne-sum. Apparently the mmemeut began in 1801. Building heUSes had still to be erected. Harâ€" mun Mule: there were 1.000 laboring men there in July, 180?). He calls it the “New Fort" in this year. Cuues, were 1'.- (ion-rum huwm m“. BRAN'I‘H n11). Brant County. is sit- uated on what was the Six Nations Indian Reserve at the point where the Indians were accustomed to cross the “ram! River. known as Brant“ turd. after their leader, Jo- seph Bram "l‘havendanaga 1712- 1807. The Indians surrendered the tmx‘nplnt m the Government April 19, 1830. The first It»! 50ch by the gov- ernnwnt “an M William Mnirheud. {when-r 1?». 1M”. he in; LU! 8 cm the we: .. mule u! tL-nlmrne 511: c. t. bran! s Fug: o‘!‘ "rm- M-rry was fur many )wu > tiz- name applied tn the vil- 0 ll wae amwalo-d t0 and nanwd it after his wife. Arabella. whom he. address- ed familiarly as Mellon I’x-vvinus to 1816 Bo-Hmnllo- was kpmvn as Meyvrs Creek. “In“! 611'! It!“ In the current issue of the annual report or the Geographic Board of Canada there is an interesting ap- pendix compiled by R. Douglas, MA" secretary of the Board. It gives the meaning or origin of the names of the different Canadian cities. Of those of Ontario, the report gives the following information : BELLEVILLE, Hastings County, was surveyed and laid out in 1816; in early documents the name is spelled Bellville: this spelling prevails on thy olol tokens of the Church of Sentlanol and also on the silver com- niuninn sets or St. Andrew’s Church, the ulolest in the district: may have bo'en name-cl after Colonel Bell, one of the ni'imml liatentows ot' the Thur-l luw lnls. Scailaling says Governor Francis tiiu'e, Lieutenant Governorl m i We Canada. 1806-“. leis-17.! used in all the King’s domin- H.\’I'H...\\l lx‘vnt [no lhamns. Si nu Ht n: (Zuunty. mnuth six lmndn-cl acres t'ux' a tvwnplut by m 1795. Th» town. said in hm'n «mm- mm. It Is nammi kâ€"mmm. 'Hm I -\\‘I‘.._~ man! -s “div-u man the: O ‘ Ar. Brannon! Ar. Toronto “.10 an. 7.40 pan. Returning, leave Toronto 650 a. m. nnd 5.02 pm. Parlor Bullet Cor Pol- Inorston to Toronto on morning trnin and Guelph to Toronto an evening The report of the Bureau of Arch- ives. Ontarie. for 1905, contains a mpy of a minute 01 the I and Com- mittee dated Quebec, August 5, i791, lemmmemling that. “the Scite of a ’I‘ own may be laid 00' at the forks of the Rim Reddo, as deliniatéti "in; plan drawn by Mr. Chewett, March OTTAWA, Carleton County, was so named in 1854 after tlw river on which it stands. The name com- ] menmrates an Indian tribe living in the early part of the seventeenth rentury on Manitoulin Island and the shores of Georgian Bay. The Otta- was. whme name romes from “ada- we“ to trade, were noted as inter- national tl'atit‘I'S and barterers. They rlaimecl exrlusive control (if the. Ottawa River reached by way of Lake Nipissing, which was the trade route to Montreal and, says the Je- suit Relation for 1667, it was for this reason that, although very different in nationality, all those who went to the French to trade, bore the name Ottawa, under whose auspices the journey was umlertaka'n. Queen Victoria selected Ottawa as the cap- ital of the Dominion in 185". NLU‘iARA FALLS, Welland Coun- ty. has nut H111 antiquity 111‘ the town 111' Niagara-1111-tlie-Lak0, Lincoln 1111111nt\'. innitrrn miles dislwant Tho 11112111 \\ as Settled by Loxalists about 1782 and svlocted bv SiIIICUO in 1792 as tlm capital of 1 war Canada and 11an11>1l lw him .V1ma1k. Niagara Hills on 11: its importance to being 1111 int11111ati0nal gate“ a), and to its 111‘11xin1ity t1) the falls. It “as f111n1111lx kmmn as Clifton or Sus- 11111311111 Bridge. Niagara is an In- dian word 111' uncertain moaning. surwymi in 1796 hv \. Irmiell, was knnwn 1w namv wars before any nlhm' name than "The Forks” “as applied to the site 0f the present city. I.H.\'I)U.\', Midollesox (mety, 011 Mm 'l‘hamvs, is namvd after London. linuiaunl. It was laid out in 1826 on land Visih‘d in 1793 and I'vsc‘l‘le by mn'vrunr Sinu-oo. :and soltlvnwnt. wmmonrml in 18:27. Simme wislwd M ran it Hmu'gina 8““? King Gmrgo 1H. Ilis successor m'vl'm'x'ml the mum» of lmmlon. London Township, ....Mnunt Pivas:mt....Early in the 'l'hirtivs....a group of villagers \wrv ulw evening St‘atml in the vi!- x’ug‘v inn. discussing tlw matter of a mmw. whvn hm strangers walkml in and vullvd for wfreslmwnls.. "Win-1'“ are you frun)?" was aSked. "lim'liu, (airman); and \w arr Inuk- m: for hnmvs." "Thou," said the qm'siinnm'. "settle burn, and BPI‘lin mall km the name of this Village.” KITCHENER, Waterloo County, was named in 11916 after Lord Kit- 1~l111n11r; oa1lior it was known as llm'lin. The origin of the city is 1l1".-‘~lllb(‘d as follows in “Busy Ber- li11."11 jubi loo pamphlet issued in 1911?: "Joseph Sclmieder. a native of l’vnnsylvania, first soltlod 1m the sil1‘....in 1807. Joseph and Jacob Shanlz took up adjoining tracts in 1808 and l’ 11111.jamiu ll ln . . . .about tho .‘lllllp yval‘. 'll11' lo alinn “as then often called 'l‘lw Sand Hills and later M John Collins, deputy surveyor- general. refers to “Kingston." Ont. Archives Rep. 1905, p. 309. The city name appears to aniedate the town- ship name and to have been given some time after the Loyalist settle- ment in honor of George III. that it was his “intention to estab- lish settlements for the provision of part of the distressed loyalists re- sorting to this province and in the neighborhood of Cataraqui upon Lake Ontario” and directing Collins "to proceed to that place without loss or time for the purpose of sur- veying and laying out the several lands in the townships and lots.” Township No. 1, now known as lx’ingsttm was outlined the same year ‘and subdivided in 1874. \Vith the opening of spring in the latter year, settlers took up locations on the surveyed lands. In 1785 there were {)0 houses in Kingston, Ontario. Archives Rep. 1905, p. 69. Docu- ments quoted in Ontario Archives dated 1786, 1787, May 5, 1788, refer to die town as "Cataraqui." A letter dated Quebec July 7, 1788, and sign- tember n, 1783, General Rudimand wrote to John_Collins, land surveyor, m pm. 1.00 pm. 835mm. I PETERBOROI'GH, Pvterborimgh County. cunnnwnirwatvs Potnr Robin- son. who. in [8'25 mum in charge «if 2.000 immigrants and foundod the tuwn. It was pi'i-Viunsly known as Indian Main 01" Scott's Landing. The Indian nanw was Niigojiwnnnng. PORT AR'I‘HITR. Thundnr Bay dis- trict. was named Prince Arthur's Landing by Wulswly in 1870. al’tm' Prince Arthur, now Duke of Con- naught, than sprung with the Rifle U l. 1857, when the Act incorporating: the "tnwn nt’ Owen Sound." assented to May '16. t856. became nperatix'e. \V. H. Smith, in Canada. Past. Presâ€" ent and Future." ’l‘nrnntn. 1851. speaks of Sydwnliam Village as “ei’immeneeil about nine years age." At this time there was a newspaper. the "Owen Sound Cmnet" published. in the Village. The Canadian l’aeit‘n" “Railway Company lake steamer. the ‘lity fn Owen Snunil. was built at Owen Sound in 1875 and ran under this name until 1886 when she ran a- share at Clapperten Island. Owen Sound was inrurporatml as 'a city in 1920. It is named after the sound which commemorates Admiral Will- .liam Campbell Rieliaril Owen (I771- 1849}. As commmlere. he was for a time cnmniander-iii-chief of H. M. ships and vessels en the great lakes. returning to England 1815-16. His brother. Vice Admiral William Fitz- william Owen (1774-1357; made sur- veys ot' the great lakes under his ilir- ection. ()WIIN S(_')l'.\'l) in (Jun Cnunlx. “as kmmn as Sulvnham aftm' HH‘ To“ nship of that name till January 1Upper Town has since been erected, and three houses on what was then known as Nepcan Point, near the Union Bridge.” Ottawa practically came into existence in 1827, in the Spring of which year Colonel By broke the first sod in the construc- tion of the ltideau Canal, to unite the Ottawa River and Lake Ontario, which took six years to complete. By 1828 there were 38 stores and 150 houses. The. village came to be known as Bytown. Another boom came in 1837 when the first timber slides were constructed and Bytown became a lumbering centre. At this time there were two small Villages: of lfpper and Lower Town separated by a wooded spur of the hill. AS statelr. the name llytown was chang- Wt to Ottawa when it was inrl‘vrperâ€" atect as a city, December 18. ISM. Much earlier. a weekly paper emit- led the “llttawa Advocate" had been published ill Byt‘m'll. l’ust ntl'it't' opened as Bytnwn. 1829; name charmed to Uttawa. January. 18.3.3. as a Town Plot in the Center of tour adjoining Townships, two on each side of the main Branch of the afore- said RiVEl‘... - ." Lord Dorchester t'le goxernor-geneial, approved of the recommendation. The land upon which the present city of Ottawa or- iginally stood comprised six lots, three. lots of Concession C. and three lots of Concession D., the boundary line between them being Cumber- land. Grace McQueen received the patent of two of these in 1801, a tract or land extending from Laurier ax enue t0 Gladstone and Bronson a\ - enues to Rideau River. In 1802 Ja- cob Carrnan received a patent of two lots comprising the area be- tween Pooley’s Bridge and the Hi- deau on the south, which included Parliament Hill and Major Hill Park. The intervening lots were obtained by John Burrows. W. H. Smith in Canada, Past, Present and Future ('l‘oronto, 1831‘ says of Ottawa: “in the year 1826 ...... not a house was standing within its present limits, except. one old log house where the THE DURHAM CHRONICLE 28, 1791, and referred to by the Land Office Board of Lunenburg, to serve Sovereign Flour ................ $3.60 Eclipse Flour ................... 3.30 - White Lily Pastry Flour ...... . 3.20 Bran ........................ 1.40 Shorts ......................... 1.50 Feed Flour (middlings) .......... 2.00 Mixed Chop .................... 1.75 Oat Chop ....................... 1.50 Crimped Oats ................... 1.50 Blatchford’s Calf Meal .......... 1.10 Custom Chopping, per 100 lbs. . .. .07 OUR FLOUR IS GUARANTEED M Prices are at the Mill, and Strictly Cash nghest Price Pad for Wheat delivered at the M111 The People’s Mills Prices for Flour and Feed OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO "1796 Apinvnwnt to the Church at. St. Callmrinns with Um Roswcllx‘v sums next to their Names." ST. (jA'l‘HAIthES, Lincoln Cunniy. Sunni-whore tic-tween 1791â€"91 an emis- mpal church mission station was establishml in Grantham 'l‘t'iwnqtip where St. Catharinos nuw is and tin-- invading of a subscription list in 1796 in L-unncction with this church can-- tains tho th'st kntiwn raft-twice to ttw name. The heading waits as 1'”!- lows : name was changed to the present one to_eorreapond with Port Moody, the then accepted western terminal of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Ex- tract from “CorreSpondenee lietative to the Recent Expedition to the Red River Settlement; with Journal of Operations Presented to both Hous- es of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, 187!” p. 55: “Wednesday, May 25, 1870 ...... Landed trams and Icamp equipment immediately and Colonel Wolseley named the place ‘l’rince Arthur's Landing’ in honor of His Royal Highness.” On their way Wset the trOOps were told that they were going to “Thunder Bay" or “Fort William.” or “Dawson’s Landing” or “the other end of the lake.” “Dawson’s Landing" seems to have been the proper name of the place before Wolseley's arrival. ’l‘here Dawson had a small wharf. and there the Dawson ro-nl com- menced, fat. the time the only build- ings were those of the Public \Works l_')epartment. one general store. and a couple of small dwelling houses. S. .J. Dawson, (J. 13., proposed a scheme for a road by land and water from Lake Superior to Red River settle- ment in 1859. The government ad- opted it. in 1867. in his Report, p. it, Ottawa. 1868. Dawson calls. the starting place of the route "The Deâ€" pot" situated on “Thunder Bay.‘ about three miles to the eastward of; the mouth of he Kaministiquia and' at this point. there is. in my opinion «wery facility for constructing wharves and forming a perfectly safe harbor." SARNIA, Lamhmn County. is the Roman namo of the Isle of Guernsey where Sir John Culbornc was g0\‘- ornor before he camp to Canada. The town was Slll'\‘¢'}'l'4l, laid out, and first. settled in 2333. and vallml ”'l‘hn Rapids," after Hm rapids at lllv [but of Lake Huron: in 1836 it was «sn- largvd by Hon, Malculn) Cameron and the namc' was changvd in Purl Sarnia aftvl‘ tlu- iuwnship; it was changed tn the prvsunt namn in 1886. SAI'L’I' STE-i. MARIE. Algmna dist- rim. takvs its namv frum thn rapids in the Sl._,1\lar}' Hiwr and was sn namml by Franch missinnarivs who in 16-40 t'c‘mndml Hw missiun ui' “Sanito Marie «In Salli." Prminnsly it was knuwn as "Saul! .h- Hastnn” ST. THOMAS, Elgin County, com- memorates Colonel Thomas Talbot. {1771â€"1853} sometime private secre- tary to Governor Simcoe, who re- ceived a grant of 5,000 acres in the county and settled there in 1803, subsequently bringing in other set» tlers. The first two 103 houses on the site or St. Thomas were built about 1810 by Daniel Rapelje and David Mandeville. ~ Ermatinger says: “St. Thomas ........ in 1817 was no more than a hamlet, chiefly under the hill at the extreme west end of the present city. The hamlet in the valley was at one period called Etir- ling, but as the village crept, up the hill and along the crest of the heights immediately ahoVe Kettie Creek, it acquired the name of St. Thomas, after Thomas 'l‘allu.>t." lirâ€" matinger (CD. KL” The 'l‘allmt lie- gime, St. Thomas. 1904. who died in {$9. is described as a merchant of Niagara, a member of the first executive council of Upper Canada in 1791. and the first. judge or the district of Nassau, which (Ix- tended from River Trent 0n the Bay of Quinte to Long Point, Lake Erie. Information from Miss Janet Came- Chan, Niagara-aOn-the-Lake, Canon L. W. B. Broughall, St. Catharines. and Rev. B. Ker‘s book, “St. George's Parish," a historic and centenary review. Farm Machinery Everything in Simeov ai‘tm' Hm Welland River, Lincumshiro. England. \\ INDSUR. ] ssox Cnunlv, laid out in 1836.13k4-s its name) from Wind- sm. England “'4 #01151? N 2K. fonrd Cmmly. sur- wyml and laid nut in 1833. was nam- ml aI'IM' \anlshwk, (._i.\;1'¢bl‘dsllil't‘, l'.1r._.r,laud “"2“”! .-\\'D “Miami 00mm. for- morlx kwmn as Mmriltsullv. lakes its namo- 1mm the noarbs Welland Riwr “lmh itself was named in 10808") is an lndinn nune 0ri8- inally applied to Lake Simcoe. The lake. for instance. is called lac dc Toronw on an anonymous map 0‘ date 1679 in the library of the Depot. de in Marine, Paris, entitled “cute de la region situee aux environs du lac Ontario ou de Frontenac.“ From Lake Simcoe it. was extended at an early date through the Severn River, alsu named 'l‘m-untn, to the lower part Hf Georgian Bay. and even to the whole hay. Later through the use «if the “(triage {mm Lake Simcoe tn Toruntu via the linmher. the name was extended tn the Lake ()ntario end of the portage. Similarly. Rice Lake and other lakes on the upper waters of the Trent River were first, railed Kentiu at Quente, which name was afterwards carried down the Trent to the hay intn which it en- tered, with the same modern result as in the ease ut‘ 'l‘nrnntn. The meaning of the word is disputed. J. S. (litl"" deals with it at lellkth ill the .kl‘t'tienlngical Reptn't fur Ull- tai'in for 1899. after the younger brother of Louis XIII; this is the none on Cham- lnin's nnp, 1632. mm, Perth County, m n town on paper in the Cnnndn Com- pnny‘s ofl‘ioes before a house was built on the. Avon. In‘ 1831 one Wit- linrn Sergeant was presented by the Company with a lot in the proposed town on condition of his‘ surfing a tavern there. Thus St ruford came into being. It was incorporated in 1853. It is named after Stntford-ou- Avon, England. Tim, Ion-ba- :. m: prtwlamatinn of Governor