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Spotlight On Essex County: 2009 Fall To 2010 Winter, Essex Free Press
Spotlight On Essex County: 2009 Fall To 2010 Winter, Essex Free Press
SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications
Articles about Essex County on topics such as wind power, unsolved murders, Jack Miner, Holiday Beach, local writers.
Spotlight On Essex County: 2010 Fall, Essex Free Press
Spotlight On Essex County: 2010 Fall, Essex Free Press
SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications
Articles about Essex County on topics such as local aviators, grain silos, lost communities, toll gates, pawpaw and Jesuit pear trees, wineries.
Spotlight On Essex County: 2010 Summer, Essex Free Press
Spotlight On Essex County: 2010 Summer, Essex Free Press
SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications
Articles about Essex County on topics such as migrant workers, festivals, steamships, photography, fishing, wineries, birding, County Road 50, War of 1812.
Spotlight On Essex County: 2010 Spring, Essex Free Press
Spotlight On Essex County: 2010 Spring, Essex Free Press
SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications
Articles about Essex County on topics such as homelessness, foster parents, inventors, sheep farms, the Osage orange, prohibition, Point Pelee National Park.
How Middlesex County Was Settled With Farmers, Artisans, And Capitalists: An Account Of The Canada Land Company In Promoting Emigration From The British Isles In The 1830s Through The 1850s, Marvin L. Simner
History eBook Collection
The need to attract settlers to Southwestern Ontario in the 1830s resulted, at least in part, from a growing fear that if the land bordering Lake Erie remained largely unoccupied it could be absorbed into regions to the south of the Great Lakes and ultimately become part of the United States. Indeed, this fear was not unfounded. As late as 1827 the overall population of Middlesex County, which at the time reached Lake Erie and was somewhat larger in area than today, was only 9,838 (History of the County of Middlesex, 1889). In addition, there was considerable sympathy among certain …