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In 1816, he was hired by William Dickson to manage his lands in Dumfries Township in Upper Canada. Shade operated a general store, a mill and a distillery in the area. The settlement that developed on the Grand River, originally known as Shade's Mills and later became Galt (now part of Cambridge, Ontario).
The company was originally founded in Galt as the Dumfries Foundry in 1844 by James Andrews and James Crombie. [1] The exact number of products manufactured by the foundry during this period is unclear, however it is known that apart from steam engines the company also produced safe doors.
Cambridge was formed in 1973 by the amalgamation of Galt, Preston, Hespeler, the settlement of Blair, North Dumfries, as well as east and west Galt. [4] The former Galt covers the largest portion of Cambridge, making up the southern half of the city, while Preston and Blair cover the western side.
[3] Afterward, Ainslie founded his own rival weekly newspaper, the Dumfries Reformer, [1] which was later purchased by James Young in 1853. [4] In 1973, the paper changed its name to the Cambridge Reporter after the city of Galt merged with the towns of Preston and Hespeler, and parts of the townships of Waterloo and North Dumfries, to form ...
Galt was founded on the east bank of the Grand River by Absalom Shade on behalf of William Dickson of Niagara. Dickson had bought 94,305 acres (381.64 km 2) of land in 1816 for 24,000 pounds, and named it after his hometown of Dumfries in Scotland. The Nith River passes through Dumfries in Canada just as the River Nith passes through Dumfries ...
He was born in Peeblesshire, Scotland in 1803.Cowan came to Upper Canada in 1834 and settled on a farm at Galt.In 1846, he helped found the Provincial Agricultural Association and Board of Agriculture for Canada West.
Durisdeer was included in the 1978 film version of The Thirty Nine Steps, [1] starring Robert Powell and a film of John Galt's Annals of the Parish made use of the interior of the church. [12] Andrew de Durisdeer was a 15th-century bishop of Glasgow whose name suggests that he came from Durisdeer, possibly with the surname Muirhead.
Dumfries (/ d ʌ m ˈ f r iː s / ⓘ dum-FREESS; Scots: Dumfries; from Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Phris [ˌt̪un ˈfɾʲiʃ]) is a market town and former royal burgh in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, near the mouth of the River Nith on the Solway Firth, 25 miles (40 km) from the Anglo-Scottish border.