. The township of Biddulph : short sketch of municipal history and official life, with some of the most important municipal events from the pioneer days of 1830 to 1912 : with The consolidated by-laws of the township . hat theyhad established, and threw the colony on its own Bell, who settled on the London and Goderich road in1832, died a centenarian in November, 1878. She was the lastsurvivor of the Wilberforce colony. There are very few de-scendants of this colony now in either Biddulph or the Villageof Lucan. The pioneer settlers of the Township, outside of the Fred-erick Sto
. The township of Biddulph : short sketch of municipal history and official life, with some of the most important municipal events from the pioneer days of 1830 to 1912 : with The consolidated by-laws of the township . hat theyhad established, and threw the colony on its own Bell, who settled on the London and Goderich road in1832, died a centenarian in November, 1878. She was the lastsurvivor of the Wilberforce colony. There are very few de-scendants of this colony now in either Biddulph or the Villageof Lucan. The pioneer settlers of the Township, outside of the Fred-erick Stover colored settlement, were principally emigrants fromIreland, with a small mixture of Scotch and English. The Irishsettlers were chiefly from the County Tipperary, and in religionwere for the most part Church of England and Roman Catholic. In a short time the tide of immigraniion flowed in, and conces-sions six, seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven were settled by rest of the Township east of the eleventh concession waspeopled by a mixture of Irish from the County of Cork, andEnglish and Scotch. But of all the pioneer band that bravedthe hardships and vicissitudes of the early settler, only a very few. JAMES RYDER, Councillor remain. Mr. Thomas Collins, of Clandebcye, has reached theninety^eighth year of his life, and is yet hale and hearty. Beatson, now in the West, is well up in his nineties, andis still in good health. Last year Dennis Carty died a centenarian,and recently Mr. James Grant, of Granton, passed away at the —3— age of ninety-seven. Those early settlers were a noble people,and left to their country a valuable asset in what they accom-plished by patience and perseverance and industry, and some ofthem lived to see \A/hat in earlier years would have seemed tothem miraculous—the wireless telegraph, the telephone at everymans door, the country spanned north and south and east andwest by railways, and electricity playing an important part onev
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