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STRATHALLAN
Sutherland's Gazeteer 1867 -
A small post village of the Township of East Zorra, situated on the 11th and 12 Concessions, Lot 18, (Gravel Road) seven miles from Tavistock. It was laid out by Andrew Kennedy, in the year 1853, and now contains two stores, one blacksmith shop, one shoe shop, one hotel, one physician and a carding mill; one church and a good school with an average attendance of about sixty pupils, D.L. Murray, teacher. The post office was established in 1865, John Lappin, postmaster. Population is about eighty.
Bartholomew - carpenter and builder
Cook, Newton - gentleman
Dunn, Thomas - farmer
Fox... - gentleman
Frost, William - laborer
Hamilton, Hugh - general merchant
Hooper, Charles - boot and shoe maker
Lappin, James - postmaster, general merchant
Lappin, John - postmaster, general merchant
LeVillian, Robert - butcher
Luddington, Silas - gentleman
McEachern, John - laborer
McKay, Daniel - township clerk, general blacksmith
Manley, George - steam carding and fulling mill
Murray, David L. - teacher
Murray, John - carpenter and framer
Oxbury, Mrs. - widow
Pigeon, Henry - M.D., M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.S.A. London, physician and surgeon - See Card
Rowlkands, Thomas - farmer
Vandecar, John - tinsmith, dealer in stoves & c.
1867
From Walker & Miles Atlas -
There has been little attempt made inthe last few years to increase the proportions of Strathallan. The agriculturists of the neighbourhood are too opulent for that; Mr. Lappin with his store, the post office and a large and comfortable hotel may be said to be the place himself. It is the headquarters of one of the companies of the Oxford Rifles, and the strength, efficiency and appearance of that corps at annual training, indicate the interest the people take in an important institution in our economy.
June 10, 1897
Tavistock Gazette -
Rev. George Carpenter has been transferred to Princeton and Rev. Albert Kennedy has been appointed to Strathallan.
INNERKIP
Walker & Miles Atlas -
Innerkip is a village in East Zorra and on the line of the Credit Valley Railway, distant from Woodstock about 8 miles. It has 2 stores, 2 hotels and the services of 2 medical practitioners. It is in the heart of an excellent agricultural section, and a very considerable trade in lime is carried on. Bright, Ratho and Chesterfield are also lively vilages in the neighbourhood.
The Tavistock Gazette of July 4, 1935 records some interesting facts taken from Lovell's Gazetteer of british North America, dated 1873.
Tavistock: a flourishing post village in Perth County on the G.T.R., 8 miles from Stratford with a woollen mill, a flax mill, telegraph office, several stores and a population of 500.
Cassel: a village in Oxford County, 7 miles from Bright with a saw-mill and a population of 30.
Bright: a population of 500
Plattsville: two woollen mills, one flax mill, one flouring mill, one iron foundry, a telegraph office, six stores, three hotels and a population of 900
Population of:
Stratford - 4313
Woodstock - 5000
Berlin - 2743
Brantford - 8107
London - 15826 |
