Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada From Wikipedia

Haldimand County Museum & Archives (Cayuga, Ontario)

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The Haldimand County Museum & Archives, located at 8 Echo Street in Cayuga, Ontario,Canada, is a museum that preserves and makes accessible evidence of the history ofHaldimand County. Artifacts related to Haldimand County, from its precivilization^{[citation needed]}beginnings to the 20th century, are restored and displayed in the museum galleries and grounds. The current curator is Karen Richardson.

First Nation War Memorial in Canada

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Haldimand County

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Haldimand is a rural city-status single-tier municipality (but called a county) on the 

Niagara Peninsula inSouthern Ontario, Canada, on the north shore of Lake Erie, and on the Grand River.

 Municipal offices are located in Cayuga.

History 

Haldimand's history has been closely associated with that of the neighbouring Norfolk County.

Haldimand was first created as a county in 1800, from a portion of Norfolk.

 It was named after the governor of theProvince of Quebec Sir Frederick Haldimand.

In 1844 the land was surrendered by Six Nations to the Crown in an agreement that was

signed by the vast majority of Chiefs in the Haldimand tract^{[citation needed]}.

 The two counties were separate until 1974, when they were reunited as the 

Regional Municipality of Haldimand-Norfolk.

In 2001, the counties were separated again, but the lower-tier municipalities

from the former Haldimand-Norfolk were merged into two single-tier municipalities.

 Although they both retained the name "county" for historical reasons, each is

 governed as a single municipality without lower-tier governments.

Haldimand was formed through the amalgamation of the former

Towns of Haldimand and Dunnville, and the eastern half of the City of Nanticoke.

Beginning in February 2006, a land dispute by native protesters began near Caledonia over a 

housing development being built on the outskirts of town,

which members of the nearby Mohawk Six Nations people claim is rightfully their land.

Communities 

The main towns in Haldimand are Jarvis, Hagersville, Caledonia, Cayuga and Dunnville.

 Part of the Six Nations Reserve is in Haldimand County, but not within its jurisdiction.

 Most of Haldimand is agricultural land, although some heavy industry, including

the Nanticoke Generating Station, is located here.

Smaller communities within the municipality are Attercliffe Station, Balmoral,

 Bodri Bay, Brookers Bay, Byng, Canborough, Canfield, Cheapside, Clanbrassil,

 Crescent Bay, Decewsville, Empire Corners, Featherstone Point, Fisherville, Garnet,

Hoover Point, Kohler, Little Buffalo, Lowbanks, Moulton, Mount Carmel, Mount Healy, 

Nanticoke, Nelles Corners, Peacock Point, Port Maitland, Rainham Centre, Selkirk,

Sims Lock, South Cayuga, Springvale, Stromness, Sweets Corners, Townsend,

 Willow Grove, Woodlawn Park and York.

The ghost towns of Cranston, Dufferin, Erie, Indiana Lambs Corners, Lythmore,

Sandusk, Upper, Varency, are also located within Haldimand.

Historic townships 

Haldimand County area 284,817 acres (1,153 km²) was formed from part of the land grant to the Six Nations in 1783. The County was purchased by treaty and opened for general settlement in 1832. It was first settled by white veterans of Butler's Rangers established there by Joseph Brant. A large number of Germans were among the first settlers.

·         Canborough, area 21,586 acres (87 km²). Granted in 1794 by Joseph Brant to John Dochstader of Butler's Rangers. Purchased by Benjamin Canby in 1810 for 5,000, he named the village-site "Canborough. Community centre: Canborough, Darling and it touches Dunnville

·         Dunn, area 15,122 acres (61 km²). Opened for settlement in 1833. Community centre: Dunnville

·         Moulton, area 27,781 acres (112 km²). Landowner Henry John Boulton named the township from the Boulton family seat in England.

·         North Cayuga, area 32,825 acres (133 km²).

·         Oneida, area 32,598 acres (132 km²). Joseph Brant granted a 999 year lease of part of Oneida and Seneca townships to Henry Nelles, of Butler's Rangers and his sons, Robert, Abraham, William, Warner and John. Community centres were: Caledonia, Dufferin and Hagersville.

·         Rainham, area 25,705 acres (104 km²) Community centres: Balmoral, Selkirk, Rainham Centre and Fisherville.

·         Seneca, area 41,721 acres (169 km²). Community centres: York and Caledonia

·         Sherbrooke, area 5,098 acres (21 km²), the smallest township in Ontario. Opened in 1825 and named from Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, a Governor-General of Canada. The Township was granted by the Indians to William Dickson (a lawyer) as a professional fee. Community centres: Stromness and Port Maitland.

·         South Cayuga, area 13,293 acres (54 km²). Community centre: Cayuga

·         Walpole, area 66,213 acres (268 km²). Community centres were: Hagersville, Jarvis, Selkirk, Cheapside and Nanticoke.

Source: Province of Ontario -- A History 1615 to 1927 by Jesse Edgar Middleton & Fred Landon, copyright 1927, Dominion Publishing Company, Toronto

My French Canadien Ancestors History Timeline & etc...

Please note the internet is chuck full of usefull information for Family History.  Explore for your self see what you can find to help you better understand your ancestors.

My attempt at accumulating useful family history

1530s-1580s

This section of the Timeline of New France history concerns the events between Jacques Cartier's first voyage and the foundation of the Quebec settlement by Samuel de Champlain.

• 1534 - On July 24, Jacques Cartier plants a cross on Gaspé peninsula and claims it for France.
• 1535 - Jacques Cartier's expedition sails along the St. Lawrence River in and stops in a little bay he names baie Saint-Laurent on August 10.
• 1535 - On September 6, Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the île aux Coudres.
• 1535 - Jacques Cartier continues to sail down the St. Lawrence River to the village of Hochelaga on October 2.
• 1537 - On June 9, Pope Paul III proclaims that since the Sauvages (Indians) are real humans, they must receive the Roman Catholic faith.
• 1541 - Jacques Cartier builds the Charlesbourg-Royal fort, the first permanent European settlement in North America, near the Cap-Rouge River and the St. Lawrence River.

1590s

• 1598 - Following the 1521 landing on Sable Island in southeast of present-day Nova Scotia by the Portuguese, the French establish a settlement.

1600s

• 1600 - Pierre de Chauvin, Sieur de Tonnetuit founds a trading post at Tadoussac.
• 1603 - Samuel de Champlain takes possession of lands he calls (Newfoundland) and Acadie (Acadia).
• 1604 - Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts and Samuel de Champlain establish an ill-fated settlement on the lands of the Passamaquoddy Nation that they give the religious name of Île-Saint-Croix.
• 1605 - Dugua and Champlain move the settlement to the Mi'kmaq Nation lands the French called Habitation at Port-Royal, near Annapolis Royal in present-day Nova Scotia. See Acadia.
• 1606 - Marc Lescarbot put on the first European theatrical production in North America. It was called Le Théâtre de Neptune.
• 1607 - On May 14, Captain Christopher Newport founds the first English colony on lands of the Paspahegh Indians in what they called America: Jamestown, Virginia.

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Taken from Wikipedia.org

Map of New France by Samuel de Champlain
"Carte geographique de la Nouvelle France" c. 1612/13 

Found at Wikipedia.org

The Colonization of New France- Canada History 1534

New World interest was stated in France when Giovanni da Verrazzano an explorer requested that Francis I of France sponsor him on an exploration of Newfoundland to Florida to find a Pacific passage. This was in 1524.

Next “In 1534, Jacques Cartier planted a cross in the Gaspé Peninsula and claimed the land in the name of Francis I.” 

The weather was very hard on the suburban French men.  Without lots of buildings to keep away all the elements it was a serious fight against nature.   Not that they were used to central heating, just the protection from wind, cold & other devastating elements did not exist for them.  In the nest paragraph you can see what I mean.

“Despite initial French attempts at settling the region having ended in failure, French fishing fleets began to sail to the Atlantic coast and into the St. Lawrence River, trading and making alliances with First Nations.  In 1600, a trading post was established at Tadoussac by François Gravé Du Pont, a merchant, and Pierre de Chauvin de Tonnetuit‎, a captain of the French Royal Navy.^[52] However, only five of the sixteen settlers (all male) survived the first winter and returned to France.^” 

Mortality rate was very high for many years for the French expansionist.  

“In 1604, a North American fur trade monopoly was granted to Pierre Dugua Sieur de Monts.^[53] Dugua led his first colonization expedition to an island located near to the mouth of the St. Croix River. Among his lieutenants was a geographer named Samuel de Champlain, who promptly carried out a major exploration of the northeastern coastline of what is now the United States.^[53] In the spring of 1605, under Samuel de Champlain, the new St. Croix settlement was moved to Port Royal (today's Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia) then abandoned in 1607.”

At this point it was all about making money not bringing families to settle the land.   New France was still just an outpost.  No formal settlements were yet considered.

So at this point French men are alone in the wilderness with?  You ask why is this a concern?

We have been spoon fed that these French men had French women/young women as  their wives.  How can this be so ? Not a single French woman has stepped foot on the New World soil.

please note this picture shows a nun teaching Native American girls, no french girls.  This will be significant to your DNA. [of course if your French Canadien]

Another note of interest that only Catholics were allowed to go to New France.  You will not find non-Catholics in New France.  You will find the Hugenots in the English Colonies.