History of the County of Brant, Ontario -- With New Index

By Warner, Beers & Company

Detailed local history, biographical sketches, and history of the settlement and development of  individual towns and townships that make up Brant County from the beginning up to 1883.  Includes a new Index.

This highly regarded local history continues to be a key reference  for historians and genealogists after more than 140 years.

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Contents include:

• The Dominion of Canada
  • Our Beginning -- Pre-Historic ; The French Colony; The Indian Wars; The Conquest of Canada; Canada During the American Revolution; The Settlement of English-Speaking Canada; The War of 1812; The Family Compact; Mackenzie's Revolt; Lord Sydenham's Ministry; Statistics; Churches, Journalism, etc
• Indian History
  • Capt. Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea)-- Parentage; Education; Brant as a Warrior; Chieftainship; Wyoming; Brant's Civil Career; Capt. Campbell's Trip From Niagara to the Grand River; Brant's Genealogy -- Domestic Relations; Brant a Freemason; John Brant (Ahyouwaeghs); The Brant Memorial; The Six Nations Indians
• County of Brant
  • Introductory; Geological Formations; First provisional Council; Proceedings, 1852; Address at the First meeting of County Council; County Buildings; Turner and Sinon Matter; Presentation of the Flag; Pioneer Life; Clearing the Land; Dwellings; Horseback travel; character of the Pioneers; Early Settlement; Pioneer Biographies; County officers and representatives; Education; Institute for the Blind; Young Ladies' College of Brantford; The Press; Medical profession; Bench and Bar; Agricultural Societies; Bow Park Farm; First Provincial Exhibition, 1857; Twosnhip Statistics; Assesment Rolls; Census of 1881; List of Post Offices.
• City of Brantford
  • Location; incorporation' The Award; Town Councillors and Officials; City Aldermen; City Charter; Notes; City Buildings; Victoria Square; Market Square; Water-Works; Gas-Works; Fire Department; Bridges; Public Halls; Hotels; Grand River Navigation Company; Industries; Customs and Revenue; Banking Companies; Board of Trade; Lodges; Societies; Bands; YMCA; The Dufferin Rifles; The Churshes; Celebration of the Crimean Victory; Reception of Prince of Wales; Railway; Gov. Gen. Visit; Destructive Fire of 1860; Murder of Mail Carrier; The Fenian Raid of 1866.
• Township History
  • Brantford Township; Burford Township; Oakland Towsnhip; Onondaga Township; South Dumphries Township; Town of Paris; Tuscarora Township.
• Biographical Sketches by Township/Place
  • City of Brantford; Brantford Township; Burford Township; Oakland Towsnhip; Onondaga Township; South Dumphries Township; Tuscarora Township.
• Portraits
  • William Watts  Example portrait
  • Capt. Joseph Brant
  • Joseph D. Clement
  • Alfred Watts
  • Rev. Wm. Cochrane
  • Wm. Buck
  • Robert Henry
  • Wm. E. Welding
  • M. D. Baldwin
  • John Elliott
  • L. B. D. Lapierre
  • Wm. T. Harris M.D.
  • Ebenezer Roy
  • James Reid
  • Hon. S. J. Jones
  • Norman Hamilton
  • Wm. Burrell
  • Morris Loundsbury
  • John Workman
  • Charles Jarvis
    

The original complete title of the book was: The History of The County of Brant, Ontario -- Containing a History of the County; Its Townships; Cities; Towns; Schools; Churches; Etc; General and Local Statistics; Portraits or Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Six Nations Indians and Captain Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea); History of the Dominion of Canada; Miscellaneous Matters Etc, Etc, Etc.

We are delighted to put this book back in print, complete with a new index compiled by the Brant County Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society. 

Details:

704 pages including the new Index. (13 blank pages removed from pdf version)
7" Wide X 9.5" Tall Hardcover
20 Illustrations (of settlers and prominent men)
New Index (2009)
Originally published by Warner, Beers & Company, Toronto, 1883
This edition by Global Heritage Press, Milton, 2009
ISBN 978-0-9810357-98-0

Names and subjects included in the new index: 
Abercrombye, General; Acadia,; Adams, Hackland & Co.; Adams, Thomas; Agricultural Societies; Ahrens, Jacob H.; Aitken, Robert; Algonquins,; Allan, Walter; Allworth, A. A.; Allumette Rapids; American Revolution; Ames, Nelson W.; Anders, Morris; Anderson, Daniel; Anderson, Thomas J.; Annapolis; Armour, John; Armour, Thomas; Armstrong, Mark; Armstrong, Thomas; Arnold, Charles; Atkinson, William; Atmore, Thomas; 

Baldwin, M. D.; Baldwin, M. H.; Ballard, John; Banking Companies; Bank of Montreal, Brantford; Bannoch; Baptist Church (First); Barker, Christopher; Barker, Daniel; Barrowclough, John; Bateman, John; Beaver Lodge, Prot. Assoc. of Prentice Boys of B.N.A.; Betchell, John G.; Bell, Benjamin; Benning, N. P.; Benoch; Benson, Rev. Manly; Biggar, Rev. Hamilton; Biggar, Herbert; Biggar, William; Bigot; Bingham, John; Birkett, Myles,; Birkett, Thomas; Bishopsgate; Blacker Bros. Brantford Steam Brickyard; Blain, William F.; Board of Trade; Bond Head, Sir Francis; Bonham, Elem; Bonney, William; Book, Henry,; Botham, Thomas; Bow Park Farm; Bradford. O. D.; Bradley, Garretson & Co.; Brant Ave. Methodist Church; Brant Canning Co.; Brant, Captain Joseph; Brant Carriage Works; Brant Encampment; I.O.O.F.; Brant Lacrosse club; Brant Lodge; , A.F. & A. M.; Brant Review; Brantford Brewing & Malting Co.; Brantford Caledonia Society; Brantford, City of; Brantford Curling Club; Brantford Expositor; Brantford golf Club; Brantford Horticultural Society; Brantford Loan & Savings Society; Brantford Lodge; A.O.U.W.; Brantford New Mills; Brantford Planning Mill; Brantford Soap Works; Brantford Stove Works; Brantford Young Ladies College; Brazier, George; Barebeuf; Bremner, George; Bridges; British American Starch co. Ltd.; British Methodist Episcopal Church; Brock, Sir Isaac; Brooks, Richard; Brown, & Co. Nut Factory; Brown, George,; Brown, George C.; Brown, Malcolm; Brown, Michael; Brown, Walter K.; Brown, William; Buchanan, Alexander; Buchanan, John; Buck, Ensign; Buck, William; Burford; Burford Revolt in; Burnley, Thomas; Burrell, Alfred; Burrell, John; Burrill, William; Burt, Robert; Burt, William; Burtch, David; Burtch, Jeremiah; 

Cabot, John; Cadieux; Cainsville; Calder, Alexander; Cameron, Rev. Robert; Camobell, W. S.; Canada Land Plaster co.; Cape Diamond; Capron, Hiram; Capron; Carlyle, Wm. Grahame & Robt. Clowe Co.; Carney, John; Carpenter, Benjamin; Carr, John; Cartier; Cathcart; Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, Paris; Catholic Separate School, Paris; Cemeteries; Champlain, Samuel De; Chapman, James,; Charlton, Seth,; Chatterson, Robert A.; Chatterson, Solomon; Chaudiere Falls; Chauvois; Chisholm, Horace; Church, Alfred; Churches in Burford,; Churches in Oakland; Cigar Box and Paper Box Manufactory; City Broom Factory; City Carriage Works; City Charter; City Planning Mill; Clark, James; Cleator, Hudson; Cleghorn, Allen; Clement, A. D.; Clifford, Daniel; Clinch, Henry; Clinton, John Jr.; Clump, Cornelius; Cochrane, William; Cockshutt, Ignatius; Cockshutt, W. F.; Cockshutt Plow Co. Ltd.; Colbert; Cole, George; Coleman, William J.; Colman, John William; Conboy, Thomas; Confederation; Congregational Church; Conklin, Elias; Connell & Co. Cigar Makers; Constitutional Act; Cook, Cornelius; Cook, John; Cornwell, Benjamin; Corson, William c.; Coulbeck, John; County Officers & Representatives to County Council; "Courtiers"; Courts in Onondaga; Court Brant; Can. Order of Foresters; Court Endeavour; Coulture; Cowherd, James; Cowie, James; Cowie, William; Cowles, Richard; Cox, Henry; Craig, Thomas,; Cranston, George; Craven Cotton Mill; Craven Wincey Mill; Crawford, Thomas D.; Creighton, James; Culp, David E.; Cunningham, Henry; Curtis, William Granville; Customs Department; Dalzell, Robert; Daniels, George; 

Daniels, John; Daniels, William; Davidson, George; Davis, Isaac; Davis, Jacob; Davison & Adams; Dawdy, William; Day, Daniel; Day, John; Day, Sampson; De Caen; De Chaste; De Denonville; Dee, Dr. Robert Hill; De La Roche, Marquis; De Lery; De Mesy; Dempster, George; De Montmagny, Charles; Denton, Edward Jr.; Depew, Williams; De Tracy; De Vaudreul Sr.; De Vaudreuil, Pierre Regand Jr.; Devlin, William; Diamond, John; Dickie, Col. Hiram; Dickinson, Joseph; Dickinson, Thomas H.; Dickson, Hon. William; Dickson, James; Digby,Alfred Sr.; Digby, James W.; Disher, Ezra E.; Dollard, Adam; Donnacona; Doric Lodge A.F. & A. M.; Dougherty, William; Douglas, Alexander; Dowling, Daniel; Drynan, William; Dufferin Rifles; Dufferin Rifles Assoc.; Dufferin Rifles Band; Dulac Des Ormeux; Duncombe, Dr.; Duqueshne de Menneville; Durham, Lord; 

Eadie, Robert Jr.; Eadie, Robert Sr.; Early Settlers; East Ward Baptist Church; Easton, Thomas; Easton, Robert; Eddy, John A.; Edmondson, Christopher; Edmonson, William,; Educational Facilities in Brant up to about; Education in Burford; Education in Onondaga; Eighteen - Twelve, War of; Elliot, John; Elliot, Nelson,; Elliott, Thomas,; Ellis, J. R.; Ellis, William; Elvidge, George; Emmanuel M. E. Church; Expositor; Eyre, Sir William; 

Fair, Alexander; Fair, Edwin; Fairchild, Stephen; Fairfield Plains; Fairlie, Philip; Falkland; Family Compact; Farm & Dairy Utensil Mfg. Co.; Farringdon Debating Society; Farrington, James; Fenians,; Ferries in Onondaga; File, Charles E.; File, David; Findlay, William; Finlayson, Hugh; Fire Department; Fitch, B. F.; Fleming, Gavin J. P.; Folsetter, Malcolm; Ford, James; Ford, William; Foulds, Daniel; Foulger, Edmund; Francis; of France; Franklin, George; Frazee, Thomas; French Colony; French War; Frontenac, Count Louis De Buade; 

Gage, Russel O.; Galt; Gas Works; Giddie, Thomas; German, Rev. Peter; Gillett, Henry; Glen Morris; Globe Mutual fire Ins. Co.; Good, Thomas Allen; Goodfellow, Gideon; Government of Canada; Grand River Division, Sons of Temperance; Grand River Navigation Co.; Grand Royal Black Chapter, Ireland; Grand Trunk R. R. Band; Grand Trunk R. R. Fire Brigade; Grand Trunk R. R. Workshops, Brantford; Grant, Robert; Grantham, Charles; Grantham, Thomas; Green, Richard; Greenwood, Samuel; Griffin, Egerton; Griffin, Peter J.; Griffith, William; Gurney, Charles; 

Hackett True Blue Lodge; Hackland, J. H.; Hager, Charles H.; Haldmand, Governor; Hall, George; Hall, Thomas W.; Hamilton, Alexander; Hamilton, John; Hamilton, John M; Hamilton, Joshua S.; Hamilton, Norman,; Hamilton, Robert; Hardy, George; Hardy, Hon. Arthur Sturgis; Harley, Archibald,; Harley, James; Harley; Harmony Lodge, I.O.O.F.; Harris, A. & Son, Mftr. of Improved Harvesting Machines; Harris, Alanson,; Harris, John; Harris, Richard; Harris, Richard R.; Harris, Dr. William T.; Harrisburg; Hartley, John; Harvie, Stephen; Hatcher, John; Hathaway, Peter; Haun, Benjamin; Hawkins, J. J.; Hawley, George; Hawley, Henry; Hay, James B.; Hearne, James G.; Healton, Crosley,; Henry, Robert; Herald; Herkimer; Hext, John; Heyd, Bernhard; Heyd, Charles B.; Hill, Elvin; Hill, John; Hill, Joseph; Hill, Josiah; Hochelaga; Hodgins, Isaac; Holmedale Woolen Mills; Hope, John; Hop Farm of Humphrey David; Hopkins, John; Horner Family; Hospitals; Hotels & Taverns; Houlding, Thomas; Houlding, William,; Howden, Robert J.; Howell, Augustus,; Howell, Firman; Howell, Isaac; Howell, Wesley; Huffman, Paul; Huguenots; Hundred Associates; Hunter, Samuel; Hunter, William; 

Indians; Indian Troubles in Onondaga; IndianWars; Industries; Inland Revenue Department; Institution for the Blind; Ireland; Iroquois; Iroquois League; Irving; Irwin; 

J ames, Thomas; Jamieson, David; Jamieson, James; Jarvis, Charles; Jarvis, Joseph; Jesuits; Johnson, G.H.M. Father of Pauline; Johnson, William; Jones, Charles Stephen; Jones, G. B.; Jones Hugh J.; Jones, Stephen James; Joques; Jull, W. H.; 

Kane, Melissa; Keefer, Charles P.; Keg Lane (CAGS); Kelly, Phillip; Kelvin; Kendrick, Joseph; Kerby Mills; Ker, James; Ker, John; Kerr, John; Kerr, Mary; Key, Henry; King, James; Kinnard, Abram; Kinney, John; Kirk; Kitchen, Edward; Kitchen, George W.; Kitchen, James Bird; Kitchen, Lemuel B.; 

La Chine; La Grand Hermione; Lake of Wild Cats; Landon Family; Langford; Langs, Edwin R.; Langs, Nelson; LaPierre Louis; LaPierre, W. B. D.; Latshaw, Joseph; Lattimer, John; Laval; Law in Brantford up to about; Lawrason, Purvis, Douglas; Laycock, Alfred; Lemming, Henry Blakley; Lee, Nicholas; Lee, W. H.; Legal & Municipal Organization; Le Jeune; Lennon, Rev. Peter; Lester Henry; Lloyd-Jones, Thomas; L.O.C.; Lorne Bridge; Lounsbury, Morris; Lovejoy, W. J.; Lowes, Henry; Luck, Fredrick; Ludlow, Thomas G.; Ludlow, William S.; Lumbermen; Lunn, Michael; Lyons, John; 

McCausland, John; McCormick, David; MacDiarmid, Diarmid; Macdonald, Sir John A.; McEwen, Archibald; McEwen, Duncan; McHaffie, William J; McIntyre, Daniel; McIntyre, Daniel W.; McIntyre, John; MacKenzie, James; MacKensie, William Lyon; McLean, Thomas,; McLeod, James; McLaughlin, George; McMillen, John; McPherson, John; McPherson, Daniel; McRae, John; Mainwaring, Andrew; Maisonneuve; Malcolm, Augustus,; Malcolm, Eliakim; Malcolm, Isaac Brock; Malcolm, Marcus,; Malcolm, William C.; Mann, John; Mann, John; Market Square; Markle, John; Markle, Robert; Marquis, Duncan; Martin, George Alexander; Martin, John F.; Maus, Jarius B.; Maus, John; Maxwell, David & Co.; Maxwell, Rev. W. J.; Meadows, George; Medical Profession, Members of up to about; ; Medical Profession in Burford; Menzie, Robert; Merritt, Gilbert; Merritt, Benjamin; Merritt, Caleb; Messecar, Eugene; Messecar, Trueman; Messecar, William; Methodist Church; Middleport; Midgely, George H.; Midgely, Robert; Midgely, Thomas,; Miles, Robert H.; Miles, William F.; Miller, James; Miller, John; Miller, Peter; Mills, George; Mills in Onondaga; Mills, J. S.; Mills, Thomas; Minor, U. W.; Minshall, Charles; Misner, Samuel; Missions & Churches in Onondaga; Missionaries; Mitchell, Thomas; Mohawk chapel; Molaskey, James H.; Montgomery, John; Montcalm,; Montreal; Morton, Andrew; Mount Horeb Chapter; , A.F. & A.M.; Mount Pleasant; Mount Royal; Mount Vernon village; Moyle, Henry; Moyle, William; Muir, Robert; Muir, Robert C.; Mulligan, Robert; Municipal Statistics of; Munroe, Murdock; Muma, Absalom; Muma, Michael; Murray, Thomas; 

Narraway, Hartnoll A.; Narraway, William A.; Nassau Lodge, Loyal Orange Young Britons; Nelles, Abraham; New Durham; New France; Newport; Nichol, William; Nichols, Wilfred; Nippissing Lake,; Nixon, Charles,; Noble, John 

Oakland Village; O'Connor P.; Oles, Alexander; Oles, John; Onondaga Indians; Onondaga Township; Ontario Institution for the Blind; O'Neail, Daniel; Osborne, Daniel; Ottawa River 

Pacific Scandal; Palmer, J. C.; Palmer & Shaw; Palmerston, Joshua; Papineau, Louis; Papple, James; Paris, Town of; Paris High School; Paris Plains; Paris Star; Paris Woolen Mfg. Co.; Park, E. P.; Parliament; Pattison, J. W.; Paterson, William; Patterson, William; Pelton, Hamilton; Penman's; Perley, Daniel; Perrin, Thomas; Petrie, H. W. & Co. Machinists & General Machine Dealers; Petrie, John; Petitt, John B.; Petitt, John G.; Phelps, John; Philip, David Leslie; Philips, Alexander; Phillips, D. B.; Phillips, George; Pike, George; Pilgrim, Evan; Pioneer Life; Place Royal; Plains Church; Plains of Abraham, Battle on the; Poge, Robert; Pollard, Arthur,; Pontiac; Population; Port Royal; Post Office; Potriff, Robert; Potriff, Simeon; Powless, George; Powless, Peter; Presbyterian Church (First); Presbyterian churches in Paris; Primitive Methodist Church; Public Halls

Quebec; Quebec Act 

Racey, James; Ramsey, A. G.; Ramsey, Nelson,; Read, Samuel G.; Rebellion of; in Oakland; Reid, James; Rhodes, Thomas; Richardson, John; Richelieu, Cardinal; Rickert, John; Rispin, William A.; Roads in Burford; Robb, John; Robertson, Alexander; Robinson, Joseph; Robinson, W. J.; Robson, Thomas; Rochelle; Roddick, William; Ronald, David B.; Rose, John; Roy, Ebenezer J. P.; Roy, Peter; Royal Loan & Savings Co.; Rubidge, Walter Boswell; Rutherford, David; Rutherford, James; Ryall, Thomas; Ryswick, Treaty of

Sable Island; Sage, George; Sage, Jesse; Sage,Nathaniel; Sanctuary Victoria; Ancient Order of Shepherds; Sanderson, Charles; Sanderson, Henry; Sanderson, Richard; Sanderson, Thomas,; Scarf, James H.; Schuler, Henry,; Scotland; Scott, James; Scott, John; Scurvy; Sealey, James; Settlement of Onondaga; Settlers; Seven Years' War; Sewell, William; Shade, Absalom; Shannon, John; Shavelear, T. W.; Shaw, Thomas; Shaw, William; Shenston, Thomas S.; Sheepskin Tannery of Franklin & John Ott; Showers, Daniel; Showers, Michael; Shultz Bros.; Shuttleworth, Joseph; Sieur De Monts; Simcoe, John G. (Governor); Simpson, James; Simpson, William; Simmons, S.; Sinclair, Dr. A. J.; Six Nations; Slather, Clayton,; Smith, Adam C.; Smith, Alexander G.; Smith, Daniel; Smith, Daniel Jr.; Smith, George; Smith, Henry; Smith, James; Smith, John; Smith, John Henry; Smith, Joseph H.; Smith, H. Lafayette; Smith, Margaret E.; Smith, Richard; Smith, Russel; Smith, Simon; Smith, Walter; Smith William; Smith, William T.; Snider, Samuel; Snowball, Robt.; Societies in Burford; Societies in Oakland; Societies in Paris; Southwik, Daniel; Sovereign, Leonard A.; Sovereign, Warren; Spence, A.; Spence, John; Spencer, Hugh; Spottiswoode, Alexander; Spring Bank Brewery; St. Andrew's Society; St. Basil's Catholic church; St. George; St. George's Society; St. James Anglican Church; St. Jude's Episcopal Church; St. Lawrence River; Stadacona; Standing, Thomas; Stanton, George; Stedman, Philip; Stewart, Charles; Stewart, James; Stewart, John; Story, Richard; Stratford, John H.; Stratford, William H.; Stratford's Opera House Orchestra; Sumler, James; Sumler, W. H.; Sweet corn Canning Factory; Sydenham, Lord

Tabernacle Baptist Church; Talon, Jean; Taws, William; Taylor, George; Tegart, Dr. E. W.; Telfer, William; Temperance Organization; Tennant, William; Terhune, Garrett,; Thayendanegea; Thomas, Abram; Thomas, Sydney; Thompson, Charles Paulet; Thompson, Walter; Thompson, William; Tisdale, B. G.; Tisdale, George H.; Tisdale, Joseph Cleoden; Tobacco & Cigar Manufactory, Paris; Town Councillors; Town Officials; Townsend; Transcript; Tufford, Henry; Turnbull & Thompson; Tuscarora Township; Tutela Council

Union; United Empire Loyalists; Urie, John

Vanderlip, E. W.; Vanderlip, G. G.; Vanderlip, John; Vanderlip, Justus,; Vannorman, George Robinson; Vansickle, George; Varnish Manufactory of Messers Whiting & Scarfe; Verazzani; Victoria Curling & Skating Rink; Victoria Foundry; Victoria Park; Volunetters of Burford township

Waghorn, William; Walker, Elijah; Walker, Robert; Wall, Robert; Walter, Alexander J & Co.; War of; Waterhouse, John; Waterous Engine Works; Waters, George; Waterworks; Watson, Alexander Thomas; Watt, James F.; Watt, William; Watt, William Jr.; Watts, Alfred; Watts, A.; Waugh, James B.; Waugh, John; Wedge, William; Welding, W. E.; W. E. Welding's Manufactory of Stoneware; Westbrook, Abraham; Westbrook, Fred; Westbrook, George W.; Westbrook, H. T.; Westbrook & Alexander; Westbrook, Levi W.; Westbrook, Peter; Westbrook, Truman W.; Westwood, John; Weyms, James; Wheeland, James; Wheeler, William; Wheelock, James; Whetman, Joseph; White, David; White, Hugh; Whiting, Daniel; Whiting, Isaac; Wickham, W. T.; Wilcox, E. H.; Wilkes, Alfred J.; Wilkes, George H.; Wilkes, James; Wilson, Frank; Wilson, Hugh Mckenzie; Wilson, Peter; Wilson, John; Winskel, Dr. William Edwin; Winskel, Thomas; Wisner, J.O. & sons; Wolfe; Women's Christian Temperance Union; Wood, Edmund Burke; Wood, William; Wood, W. B. & D, Beattie Wood; Woodley, Joshia; Woods, Frederick; Woodyatt, James; Workman, John; Workman & Watt Brickmakers; Wycliffe Hall

Y.M.C.A. Building; Wyle & Terris; Yeigh family; Y.M.C.A.; Young, James; Zion Church.