. Canada and its provinces; a history of the Canadian people and their institutions . e share being the maximumand one-eighth share the minimum any stockholder couldpossess. Daniel Erb was appointed Brickers assistant, andwith $20,000, all in silver dollars in a strong box, these twomen travelled in a light buggy to Canada. By the help ofthe Hon. William Dickson the affair was adjusted, andRichard Beasley conveyed to Daniel Erb and Jacob Erb astrustees 60,000 acres of land for $20,000 Canadian tract was surveyed by Augustus Jones into lots of 448acres each, and a map of the townsh
. Canada and its provinces; a history of the Canadian people and their institutions . e share being the maximumand one-eighth share the minimum any stockholder couldpossess. Daniel Erb was appointed Brickers assistant, andwith $20,000, all in silver dollars in a strong box, these twomen travelled in a light buggy to Canada. By the help ofthe Hon. William Dickson the affair was adjusted, andRichard Beasley conveyed to Daniel Erb and Jacob Erb astrustees 60,000 acres of land for $20,000 Canadian tract was surveyed by Augustus Jones into lots of 448acres each, and a map of the township of Waterloo was sentto the stockholders in Pennsylvania. Each stockholderdrew his land by lot. Immigration now set in, and the glow-ing accounts brought back by those who visited the newsettlement induced numbers to emigrate to Upper stock was driven all the way from Pennsylvania, thirtydays being taken to make the trip. Until the year 1835families came into the township, and soon land was taken SPADINA AVLN U EL , Between Oxford flnc) College c>V>I 5 6 --)- .. TORONTO (1) SPADINA AVENUE BETWEEN OXFORD STREET AND COLLEGE STREET, 1S64 (2) THE FIRST POST-OFFICE IN TORONTO, 1792-1827 (3) THE FIRST ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL IN TORONTO, IIUILT 1825, AT THE SOUTH-WEST CORNER OF JARVIS STREET AND HOSPITAL STREET Fro}n the John /\os^ Roheytson Collection in the Toronto Publio Library SETTLEMENT OF MENNONITES AND TUNKERS 49 up in the adjacent townships, some of the settlers comingdirect from Germany. About 1816 Absalom Shade from Pennsylvania wasappointed agent for the Hon. William Dickson of Niagara,who owned the township of North Dumfries. The firstsettlers were Scots from New York State, who were after-wards joined by others who came direct from Germans also took up land in this township. The township of Wilmot was settled by German noncon-formists—Tunkers—holding a doctrine similar to the Men-nonites, but differing from the latter in dress and cut
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