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The History of the County of Bruce and of the Minor Municipalities Therein, Province of Ontario, Canada
The History of the County of Bruce and of the Minor Municipalities Therein Province of Ontario Canada Author:Norman Robertson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1906 Original Publisher: Briggs Subjects: Bruce (Ont. : County) History Bruce (Ont. : County) Bruce County, Ont Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edi... more »tion of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. THE QUEEN'S BUSH. Extract from a Report of a Committee of the Executive Council, Doled February 26th, 18-'i2, and approved by His Excellency the Governor- General two days later: " William H. Peterson with a petition from the inhabitants of a tract of land called the ' Queen's Bush,' in the District of Wellington, praying to have it surveyed. " The Committee recommend that the tract of land above mentioned be forthwith surveyed, and that a plan of survey be submitted for approval of your Excellency-in-Couneil. The charges for survey will bo against the Clergy Reserve Fund." Memory has an odd way at times of retaining a recollection of that which is unimportant, whilst the relatively important things too often are forgotten. To some such peculiarity of memory the writer must attribute his recollection of a school Geography, in use some fifty years ago -- which even then must have been almost obsolete -- in which was a map of Upper Canada, showing its divisions into Districts. Besides the Districts, the map also showed a large blank tract, which was designated " Indian Territory," roughly bounded, as far as memory recalls, by the Home District on the east, the Huron District on the south, and Lake Huron on the west and north respectively. This " Territory" is that tract of land mentioned in the preceding chapter as ceded to the Crown by the treaty executed at Manitowaning. Shortly thereafter it came to be known as the " Queen's Bush," a title given, no doubt, to distinguish...« less