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The Belgians: First Settlers in New York and in the Middle States with a Review of the Events which led to their Immigration. New York: Devin-Adair Co., 1925. Cook, Bernard A. (2007). Belgians in Michigan. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 978-0870138126. Cook, Jane Stewart (2014). "Belgian Americans". In Riggs, Thomas (ed.).
Flemish people also emigrated at the end of the fifteenth century, when Flemish traders conducted intensive trade with Spain and Portugal, and from there moved to colonies in America and Africa. [28] The newly discovered Azores were populated by 2,000 Flemish people from 1460 onwards, making these volcanic islands known as the "Flemish Islands".
Wilberforce Colony was a colony established in the year 1829 by free African American citizens, north of present-day London, Ontario, Canada.It was an effort by African-Americans to create a place where they could live in political freedom.
Belgian Canadians (French: Canadiens belges; Dutch: Belgisch-canadezen) are Canadian citizens of Belgian ancestry or Belgium-born people who reside in Canada.According to the 2011 census there were 176,615 Canadians who claimed full or partial Belgian ancestry. [1]
Ontario was founded by Hiram Cook, and was platted in December 1834 as a settlement in Springfield Township near Mansfield. [6] During that same month thereafter, the original settlement of Ontario merged with New Castle, another small settlement that was originally located just to the west of the Ontario settlement along the Mansfield and Bucyrus route (known today as State Route 309) that ...
Goshen Township was settled about 1801 by settlers from Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ireland. [4] These settlers probably named their new township after a Goshen Township in Chester County, Pennsylvania. [5] Goshen Township was described in 1833 as having several gristmills and saw mills, three or four fulling mills and carding machines. [4]
In modern Belgium, Walloons are, by law, termed a "distinctive linguistic and ethnic community" within the country, as are the neighbouring Flemish, a Dutch (Germanic) speaking community. When understood as a regional identification, the ethnonym is also extended to refer to the inhabitants of the Walloon region in general, regardless of ...
An illustration of European and Indigenous fur traders in North America, 1777. The North American fur trade is the (typically) historical commercial trade of furs and other goods in North America, predominantly in the eastern provinces of Canada and the northeastern American colonies (soon-to-be northeastern United States).