The history of the county of Bruce and of the minor municipalities therein, province of Ontario, Canada /cby Norman Robertson . Hexry Hilker Thomas Adair p. 497 p. 513 HENKY HILKEU 497 This in some cases is none too apparent, as is shown in Appendix N,where there is given the names of a number of places in this coixntyAvliich at first promised well, but failed to develop. In the case of PortElgin, however, we see a village that rapidly developed, althoughhandicapped by close proximity to another village which possessed theadvantage of an earlier start, and which also was expected to be madethe
The history of the county of Bruce and of the minor municipalities therein, province of Ontario, Canada /cby Norman Robertson . Hexry Hilker Thomas Adair p. 497 p. 513 HENKY HILKEU 497 This in some cases is none too apparent, as is shown in Appendix N,where there is given the names of a number of places in this coixntyAvliich at first promised well, but failed to develop. In the case of PortElgin, however, we see a village that rapidly developed, althoughhandicapped by close proximity to another village which possessed theadvantage of an earlier start, and which also was expected to be madethe county town; and yet for several decades the younger village wasthe most prosperous of the two. This is largely attributable to themen who founded or afterwards lived in the village of Port Elgin. Itsfounders were Henry Hilker,i Samuel Bricker,^ Clement Sieffert, Ben-jamin Shantz,^ Martin Hoover and John Stafford. The presence ofa mill and a tavern located at cross-roads possibly formed the nucleusfor the village, and the above-mentioned energetic, resolute mensupplied the necessary enterprise which evolved from a settle
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