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Brockville is situated on the land which was previously inhabited by the St. Lawrence Iroquoians [3] and later by the Oswegatchie people. [4] Brockville is one of Ontario's oldest communities established by Loyalist settlers and is named after the British general Sir Isaac Brock.
In 1784, he settled in Elizabethtown Township then part of western Quebec near what was to become Brockville. He set up a mill in the area. In 1788, he was appointed justice of the peace in the Lunenburg District and in the Midland District in 1796. In 1800, he was elected to the 3rd Parliament of Upper Canada for Leeds. He opened the first ...
1784 Haldimand sets up 8 new townships for settlement along the upper St Lawrence from the westernmost seigneury to modern Brockville, Ontario, and five more around Cataraqui. 1784 – About 9,000 United Empire Loyalists are settled in what is now southern Ontario, chiefly in Niagara , around the Bay of Quinte , and along the St. Lawrence River ...
Comstock was a town councillor and mayor of Brockville, Ontario. He twice ran unsuccessfully as the Liberal candidate for the House of Commons of Canada for the riding of Brockville in the 1882 and 1887 elections, before being elected in an 1899 by-election resulting from the death of the sitting MP, John Fisher Wood. [4] He did not run in 1900.
Loyalists to be "victualled" at 2/3 rations (1/3 for kids under 10) in 1784-5, and half that in 1785-6; disbanded soldiers to get full rations [67] Robert Lawson and 10 other Black Loyalists petition for land promised but not received, fearing "Greatest Distress" to their large families [ 68 ]
The 1886 Ontario general election was the sixth general election held in the Province of Ontario, ... 1,784: 51.53%: 106: ... Brockville: Christopher Finlay ...
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Leeds County is a historic county in the Canadian province of Ontario.The county was first surveyed in 1792 as one of the nineteen counties created by Sir John Graves Simcoe in preparation for the United Empire Loyalists to settle here. [1]