COUNTY OF BRANT GAZErrTEER AND DIRECTORY FOR 1869-70. CONTAINING BRIEF HISTORICAL AND DESORIPTIVE SKETCHES OF THE TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS AND VILLAGES, WITH THE NAMES OF RESIDENTS IN EAOH LOOALI'I.'Y ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY. JAMES SUTHERLArD, PUBLISHER AND COD1PILER, No. 86 King StTeet West, Toronto, (mel 3 King St'reet, Hamilton. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE-TWO DOLLARS. TORONTO: PRINTED BY HUNTER, ROSE & 00., 86 KING STREET WEST. 1869. iii. COLBORN"E STEEET~ BRANTFORD, ONTARIO. This splendid Hall, universilly ~dmitted to be THE . BEST IN THE DOMJNION Is fitted up in the mos!; complete mannel', has a ' perfectly 31ppointed Bt3lge, and will. seat eight b!o.dred persens cemfort3lli>ly, c3ln now ~e engaged !for CONCERTS, THEATRIOAL PERFORMA'NCEB, B.ALLS~ &C'-~ On the most liberal terms, which can be aseertained 'on a.pplica.tion t.o ' ~OBE~T WELSH, Proprietor. =- of aU kinds, Wads. &e., A'1. V iVo Reaping and Mowing THE AIR COUNTY OF BRANT GAZErrTEER AND DIRECTORY FOR 1869-70. CONTAINING BRIEF HISTORICAL AND DESORIPTIVE SKETCHES OF THE TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS AND VILLAGES, WITH THE NAMES OF RESIDENTS IN EAOH LOOALI'I.'Y ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY. JAMES SUTHERLArD, PUBLISHER AND COD1PILER, No. 86 King StTeet West, Toronto, (mel 3 King St'reet, Hamilton. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE-TWO DOLLARS. TORONTO: PRINTED BY HUNTER, ROSE & 00., 86 KING STREET WEST. 1869. VI. ADVERTI5'EMENTS. GA VINFLEMING, GENERAL MERCHANT, ALL DESCRIPTIONS O}<' OLOTHING MADE UP TO ORDER. Custom Made Boots and Shoes. SAMUELW. FEAR, MOUNT PlLEA§A~T, NIOJIIAWK P.O., ONTARIO. NEW DOMINION Carriage and Waggon Factory. The subscriber is prepared to execute all work in his line with dispatch and en moderate terms. He is also sole proprietor (for the County of Brant) of Btuce's Patent First Prize Two Horse Cultivator, Which took First Prize at the last Provincial Exhibition at Toronto, Kingston and Hamilton. Farmers will do well to call and examine before purchasing any other. Also, KENNEY'S PATENT ONTARIO HARROWS, which are allowed by all farmers to be the best in use. :rii~. , Groeeries, Hardware, xv. Grist Mills. xvi. ADiVER'.I1liSEMiENTS. OF'FillCE=N@. 4; N0!R'FJ;!! s mIlE COLn@!RN!Iil £'FRE'ET, NEXT. 'j['FIOMAS McLEAN'S DRY G00DS STO!RE. MF. SiU'iFT@N has iJ:i:aa 24 ye3Jl'S [email protected] ]!lpaemce i1;l M@ntreall ilGingst@n and Bral1tf@:rd and performs al!l 0pe:r3ltions in the best p@ssrble manner, and 3It reason- able rates. S·IMS. & HARPIN, ConveyanCet18, Land Agents, &c., BRANTFORD, ONTARIO, Loans Negotiated, Titles Searched, Rents Oollect€d, &c. OiFiFIGE===Enlu'ance @n the West side@£ MARKET S!l'REET, between the Stores of Ada;ms & [email protected] a;nd'iF. Mcli..ea;n. EDW1Nsms. JAMES B. HARPIN. HUGH SPENCER, DEA~ER IN GROCERIES & PROVISIONS, F~our and F~ed. HIGHEST PR.ICE PAID FO~ TOWNSHIP OF BRANTFORD. This township is bounded on the north by the township ,of South . Dumfries, 'on the south by t~e township of Oakland, on the west by the township of Burford, and on the east by the townships of Onondaga and Ancaster. The township of Brantford is composed of a part of the Six Nations Indian tract on the Grand River. The lands of which it is composed remained in the occupation and possession of. the Six Nations Indians, (excepting some portions thereof which had been leased by the late Joseph Brant, as agent for the Six Nations Indians, to various settlers), until the year 1830, when the town plot of Brantfoid was surrendered for sale and settlement, as also a part of the north part of the township; after which various surrenders were made for settlement, until the whole of the territory, comprising this township as well as the township of Onondaga, was surrendered for sale and settlement. The Grand River in its various meanderings runs through the centre. of this township on its course to Lake Erie. It is watered in the east' - part by Hynd's Creek, Fairchild's Creek, and their tributaries; and on the west side of the rivet by Horner's Creek, which enters it in the 4th concession at the point mentioned in the remarks on Burford, but after it enters Brantford it takes the name of " the Whiteman's Creek," until ~ts entrance into the Grand River in the third concession, at the place originally known as "The Whiteman's Farm." The person called "The Whiteman" was made prisoner by the Six: Nations Indians when very young, during the American Revolution, and growing up with the In­ dians, married a woman of the Mohawk tribe, and settled at the inter­ section of this creek with the Grand River. The south-west part of the township is watered by the Mount Pleasant Creek and other small streams. The principal roads are,-the road leading from Hamilton, passing through Cainsville, the town of Brantford, towards London, intersecting the township of Burford, at the village of Bishop's Gate, at the place indicated in the remarks on Burford; the Mount Pleasant road, lead­ ing from the town of Brantford through the beautiful village of Mount Pleasant to Oakland. The roads leading from Brantford to Paris and St. George; the gravel road leading from Brantford south throl1gh Oak­ land to Port Dover, called Cockshutt's road-and the road leading down the river to the tow'llShip of Onondago. Various concession and side lines are also opened in various parts of the township. The river Canning also waters a part of the first concession on the west side of the Grand River, which stream enters the main branch of Thomas McLean, Importer of Staple and Fancy pry Goods, Colborne and Market Streets, Brantford. 2 18 TOWNSHIP OF BRANTFORD. the Grand River at Paris, immediately on the line between the town- ships of Brantford and South Dumfries. , The soil is variegated and differs from the timber. On the west side of the river, from Dumfries down to th~ second range east of the Mount Pleasant Road, it is plain land, sandy soil, but very productive, This part of the township is one of the most beautiful tracts of country ima­ ginable. It is also plain land on the east side of the river, from Paris to Brantford, and extending east some three or four miles from the river. The rest of the township is timbered land, strong soil, and some­ what inclined to clay in some places. On the whole it embraces as fine a tract of land as can be found in the country. The regular concessions number from north to south, and the lots in the concessions number from west to east. 'But the plan of the town­ ship is very irregular-much of it had been settled by leases from Joseph Brant, without much regard to regularity Or consistency. In the survey of the rest of the township, particular respect had to be paid to these Brant lease tracts. The town of Brantford is situate about the centre of the township, as also in about the centre of the county of Brant. Number of acres taken up in 1846 was, 58,035 ; number of acres un­ der cultivation, 42,273; which figures, cOmpared with the table given­ below, will .show the progress made by the township. In 1846, there were six grist, and six saw-mills in Brantford, and the population was a little over 5,000. The value of rateable property was $457,000. The present state of the township will be seen in the following report of its census for 186l. CENSUS. OF THE TOWNSHIP OF BRANTFORD, 1861. BY ORIGIN. Total population, 6,904; England and Wales, 1,114; Scotland, 514; Ireland, 576; natives of Canada, not of French origin, 4,216' United States, 334; Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, 13 . Ne~ Bruns­ wick, 73 : Prussia, German States and Holland, 55, Sw~den and Nor­ way, 2; Indians, 38. CENSUS.BY RELIGION. Church of England, 1,659; Church of Rome, 552; Established Church of Scotland, 194; Free Church of Scotland 304· United Pres­ byterians, 57~; Wesleyan. Methodists, 1,742 ; Episcopal M~thodists, 268 j New CounectlOn Methodls~s, 42.; other Methodists. 85; Baptists, 885 ; Lutherans, 12; CongregatlOnahsts, 91; Quakers, 10; Christians, 50; Thomas McLean, Millinery and Mantle Rooms. In this Department the Newest Styles always introduced at very Lowest Prices. C.OUNTY Q¥ BRANT. Protestants, 9; no religion, 147; no creed given, 52; other creeds not classed, 226. RETURNS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODPCE, LANDS HELD, OCCUPIERS OF . LAND, &C., FOR THE TOWNSHIP OF BRANTFORD, 1861. Total occupiers of land, 671; occupiers of ten to twenty acres, 31 ; occupiers of twenty to fifty acres, 134; occupiers of fifty to one hun­ dred acres, 263; occupiers of one hundred to two hundred acres, 184; upwards of two hundred acres, 32; amount held in acres, 6.4,555;. under cultivation, 53,358; under crops, 43,271 ; under pasture, 8,854 ;. under gardens and orchards, 1,232; wood and wild lands, 11,198; cash value of farms, $3,048,482; cash value of farming implements, ®.136,-· 914 ; produce in gardens and orchards, $20,425; quantity of land held by townspeople, not being farmers, 500 acres; number of acres of fall wheat, 29,574; bushels of fall wheat, 211,886; acres of spring wheat, 3,609; bushels of spring wheat, 64,486; acres of barley, 1,223; bush­ els of barley, 32,990; acres of rye, 298 ; bushels of rye, 3,832; acres of" peas, 2,942; bushels of peas, 94,685 ; acres of oats, 4,017; bushels of" oats, 107,362; acres of buckwheat, 418; bushels of buckwheat, 8,827 ; acres of Indian corn, 1,121 ; bushels of Indian corn, 42,150; acres of potatoes, 1,081; bushels of potatoes, 115,791; acres of turnips, 474;, bushels of turnips, 190,436; bushels of carrots, 765 ; acres of mangel wurtzel, 57; bushels of mangel wurtzel, 16,981; bushels of beans, 230: bushels of clover, timothy and other grass seeds, 476; hay, 7,455 tons; hops, 73,565 los; maple sugar, 17,236 Ths; cider, 16,506 gallons·; wool, 36,980 Ths; fulled cloth, 2,271 yards; flannel, 6,391 yards;.