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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m^thode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 THE TOWNSHIPS ineprtntod frot" tlie Hamilton Times, do ao many great oltliens lie within April 12th to 21st, 1808.] so narrow a space. High over those The following liemo, rolntlng to tho ll^Jf "blc Sra^'^^.towers the Htntcly ?!!?!"...'!'. *'.«'..".'^?-__?' ™"."'J- »"" i aboThU efftv.':;?a*5„Ti,/a"cun',^i"n^ had land from tarl Selkirk, who got It girl, Mary SlmpMn, daughter of a tarlo, Ir 'ron* at tlie township, after from V, .Jarvls. who got It from the great Canadian mercliant of the Brighton, the famous watering Tilaoe indlami for a promise to pay i;5,775 (period. At the time of Neleon's visit In SosseT. Kneland, where OeoFge IV , I w„V\,?»V*' "^SfT"? "1 \^- , , f'o."-"'' .but 1« years old, marvellous- when Tr'nce of Wales, built the po tnwr .ihlna In *im t_„,.i„„„ „» r.„* i„ 1^ — '.■-• """ '•••'•'• »■■>•>-■" "J' a vu.iiiuiK Wnlpoie, from Sir Kobort Walpole, of '-• ' >"••' ' —"— ■^- "-' -■• I- ... . ' . = j » towijjhlps In the .'ro^lncc of Ontario, | hand, 6wm« still, with ongle fwe and Houghton, Earl of Orford. born 1070 were collooted by If. F. Cardlner, j outstretched arms, to bid Kneland bo Idled 1745, the great Whig statesman, editor of the Hamilton Times, as notes'?' B°°'' eheer, and to hurl defTanoo at | who was for 20 years at the head of for a lecture delivered by him In Ham- ! thL'^fn,Tl'i"„P? wl^r.^^i'''"'* '•"ared the British Government. A friendly with Mary Simpson. ...._ _.... ilton on Mareh "9th l\"8 7^1, « ^^, ff "'P'"' ' '''"> has dlsapi^ared critic says that Walpole was beyond , the St. Lawrence to board themau- Mion, on Mar. 11 ^Jtn, IS.S. It has The time lias ronie when the rash ai,d j question the most eminent, tlie ablest of-war. The next morninff arrived t>con suggested that It wi.nld be well 'ndiscrimlniit*' Judgmenta which his] and the most suecessJul staU-smau of and the Albemorle did not heoTe to complete the rerjrd up to date, if |<'"i't<'mpornrl<'s paMjiil on his char- 1 his ('ay. Ills ambition only was oxces- anchor, and (not. Nelson was sean possible, not o„ly for the ^^^'orn^aUon^f^J^^^^^^tiivriT^X^^t^ f^^ {^^^J^^^i ,^ of present-lay readers, but for refer- : Ing of vehement, high an.l daring nat-llaw. Lord Townshend. the most re- I 0^™ 'it tlm time em InThlT^^ ence In the future. Anj thing that will : ures, she notes his many errors, will si)tTtable statesman of that barren i osked him what had lin>>™.nBfl '?«! throw light upon sneh pn^.K-s as An- y«i ''''»'■■•'; "1^ P™,"™"'.'' t''''t'''°'™B t*--'"'-. '^"■•'"8 his olllolal life he en- ! «>„ is , noted as having saw" "I find ' " joyeilshK cures which, with the salary u nhssslbl,T to leave this was the burial place 6f the Hoatlngi family. , , , ...„ „„ , FRONTENAC COUNTY i 'i„^'""""' ■;!"? ".'"y;, On Oct. 14. Villon In 1784. Got Ito name from tbe French Gov 17S., IMra ^elson8 ship, thL Al- Seymour, aTt«r Lady EUz.abeth ernor who dlf.i In 1018, lust 200 yean beinarle, was ready to sail, and he Seymour, daughter of the.Duke of Soni- ago, after being a power In Canadc very sad and tender ixirtlng | crset, wife of the Duke of Northum- for twenty-five years. The Duke di herland, who became nnronoss IVrcy St. Simon snld that Frontcnac foeni after her husband's death. In 1780. It hard to Ijear the Imperlcis tempei Alnwlek, from the county town of of his wife, audi he was given th€ Northumberlanil, I'.iigland, famous for government of Canathi In 1072 tc Its castle, the resldei'ee of the Duke delher him from her, and afford him of Northumberland, which w , pp. some meaius of living. He buill, Fort |M'at<«|iy besieged by the Scots in an- Frontcnac at CataraiQul and fought mnnent fokm. In 17SS Lard Dorchester tasued a proclamutiou, dated at the Castle of •St. LouLs, Quebec, forming a certain nnm(K..i* dl lunv dl-strleta in tlie I'ro- \ince of t^uebec. Lpper Canada wn.s formetl into 'our districts, viz.: Lunen- burg, wiiieh exteniied from the bor- derw of Lower Canada to ttio (ian- anoque iUver ; Mecklenburgii, fiom tile fJananoipie lo tin-* Trent ; Nu.ssau from tlie Trent lUver to Loni? I'oint on Lake Fjio ; Hesse, w liich ombraueil the remaUiing part.s at Western Can- atla, including liotroit. To each of ttie.se Instrieia were appointed a .ludge and a Sherifr. In 17ul the I'itt .Act was jinKsed, making Cpiier Canada and Lower Canada trfjparate I'rovinces. .\b tliat time there were di.stribuU^il alontr the .St. Laurence, tiio Da.v ur t^iiint^'. Niagara (rontlcr, .Vmher.stbiirg. witli the French settlement on llie 1 lianics, and tlie Indians at Graiiii Ulver, about L'0,000 souls, nearly ail o, whom liud found tlieir way into wliat is now tiie I'rovince of Ontario since the clo.se otf tlie .\inoriean V^'nr ot the Hevojutlou in 178;j. colonel .John Craves Slnicoe, the liioneer doveriior of Ijijier Canada, who was l.i^'iit<-'naiit-ifO\ernor under Lord Ijorcliest^n", entered upon the dutie.-i of ills office .luly «th, 17U: but he 'lever s',.ooped to the arts by whleli men form a political parf". His real strength. Indeed, lay not iii j'nr- llamcnt, but In the iieople at large.— Green's History. Zone— 0».lgl.'i unknown. ELGIN COLNTV, Calloil after the county of Llgiu on tlio Moray Firth in .'•Scotland, wan at first callod Suffolk, was next part of JlulUlesex, and was finally separated ,,rt iifH re.il Inve w,ia inr tiio t,.i>u aucl given iu> present name. Us town- ^^I^^mI turtle \ZL°.' 'lie rode '»"■•'""' '" ^"""""^ lt4 for- |)ro- t<>Btrd aga.istsuch a rash net and told him that, " situated as you or ' at pres- iiit. your uttir ruin will In, vitably fnl low." "Then let It lollow," replied \< Isoii: earnestly, "for I am rosolvjd to do It. ' Uut ite.spltn ins intentions his friend pro- was fairly carried hnek to the ship and forced to leave "'i';:ih;>r™gh, from a town and wnt-l ^ J;-',;'' ^^^ 'l^^Crroik'"'''"'" "'" "" erlng place In Suffolk, ling. Crabbe, ' " """ ' "' '"" ■^""""' lug in Greens History Waliwle Is de- scilhed as a young ^orfoik landowner of fair fortune, wllli the tastes and ; air of the class from which he sprang. His big, 8aon "'"' ''■''"'' "' Lieut-Colonel. Com- died ill splnsterhocnl. (ient tloieii rcrcy, fr. the old family name of the Dukex of Northunilierland, taken originally from thi> village of I'erey, ill INotmniiily. Henry ije Percy li tim reign of '-Mward I. ucMpiired" the bnrcjiietcy of .\lnwlek. South Monngliaii. after the County of -Monaghiin, In Ireland. HASTINGS COUNTY, he three townships of Rnwdon, the I!n«ll«h and Ihoir imiian aifk at every opportunity; Golden says: " De Frontenao stands conspicuous among all his nation for deeds of eruoltj. Nothing was more coramon than for his Indian prisoners to be Slven up to his Indian allies to be tor- tured." It was in Frontenao's time that slavc/y was legalized In Can- ada. One haud'-ed years later It was alwllshed by Governor Slmcoe's Par- liament. McMullen seys I'rontenec He was ignorant of J, ^i,i,„| the girl he loved, and It was l'^^''- fought at lliiiiker Hill 177."., in the poet, wiu< born there in 1731. Yariiioiitli, from a borough In Nor- 1 folk, England, which contains thei Church ol St. Nicholas, founded in the reign of William Kufus. It is the prlii- eipal soat of the herring flsliery In lingiand. Danwlch, from a dt.cayed borough of Suffolk, Kng., anciently an impor- tant city and capital of liist .Viiglla, but has bt«ii almost entirely destroy- ed by Inroads of the sea. ."^uthwohl, from a Suffolk borough. fox-hunter In tile ' doggedneso" wlilch Jlarlbor- oiigli notc^d as his chnracierlstic ; In tlie bm-ly seif-confhiencn wliich de- clared, " If I had not been I'rime Min- ister I shorrid have been ,\rclihisliop of Canterbury" ; in tlie stubborn courage wiiicii cbmpiered the awk- wardness of ills earli(;r efforts to s|icak, or met siiigle-liaiidcd at tiie last the hitter attacks of a host of enemies, and, above all, in the genial gottd hiiiiKir whiuii became witii tiini new force In politics. No man was Governor iJUncoe divided the Maialiiiie. a w aterini^ place in Ire- Ihiim, 'J miles froi,, I uhiin. handsomely built and frequented by butlicrs. Malu- jhiile, Irelaini, wa,s tliu birthiilaee of __, j Colonel Thomas Talliot. The town IVv 1"^ ^'- Thowj'is, .nn.t Taibot street, are \lnce Into 10 counties, whicli he call- "'"" named aftei thi. Colonel, wlio ed Glengarry, Stormont, iiiindas, Gren- "■"**,■ '" his youth, along witii Artliiir ville, Lce.'s, Frontenai!, Ontario, Ad- ' ".''"'^''I'-'y "he iHike of Welliii^toii.r, an dlngton, L<-nnox, I'riiice Kdward, i"''''-'"'*'"a!i to tlie M»ri|nis of Ihiek- Hastings, Nortiiumberland, Uurhani, ingliam. Lord Lieutenant of Irelanil York, Lincoln, Norfolk, Suffolk, Kssex, "! ]7ai;-)>h. On the recomiiKiidatioi Kent. .SUncoe's Ontario County m- "' ''"pernor .Siiuco..", .-,,Oili) acres of eluded Wolfe, Howe, Amherst and tlic ' '»»'' «"" granted to Mr. Talliot In other Islands, between Gaiianoque and f'"' township of Yarniontli, ami tliere Prince Kdward. It was soon abol- i «-• huiit Castle Malahide. wnere he Wied. and doJ-s not appear on the i""'!'' "^^ Iiaelitlor quartei-s and ]7!iS map. Suffolk was located where B''-"'t'»' w "'h' hind to immigr.-ii.ts, Middlesex and Klgin are now. I "I' t« tl"' time of his death, Applicii- The first I'ariiamcnt of liiper Canada l*™"*" ■"■■ •"'.'•')" acres wore eoinmiin 17'.ii;, cliangeil the names of tiie Dis- ! '" those da.vs, and not a few obtained tricts to Lastern, Midluinl, Home and 1"^ whole township of land. Edward Western ll-.rinntlnger wrlt«ii that Mr. Charles In tiic session of 171*8 a ISill was l"g«'«-''Oll obtained a grant ol the passed "to ascertain and establisii "'hole township of Oxford; a iier.sim the bonndarv lines of the different S'lnmed Safer the towiiKliip of Town.s- townslilns of" the Province," and an- [™d, and another person iiame.l liaton other liill lorming >< districts, L':i ""■ townshlii of llnrford. on conditions which hiui an import coal trade alid,':"''' '"""' ["•'^'^ely attacked by sis^ak a horrUig flsliery. i PLEL COUNTY, Which was alwo originally a part uf York, was called aft^T Sir lioliert Pts'l, who succeeded lA>rd Multloiiriie as I'remier In 1841 and carried through Parlhnnent the liill to re- peal the com laws in lt:40. The ijiaH'ii at first disliked him. but h.anied to regard him very liigliiy. An iik'a of the ipia.iity of the man ma.v be gathered from the following spcHMjli, lii reply to a taunt that lie would lie driven from office : "1 shall surrender iiowx-r, severely censured, I fear, b.v many honnr- jiOle men who, from no Interested motives, hav.rri.rd, and tile i 'Ued, as he had lived, ,ovod i,y some IlUer Molrn. an" named after Francis jfof his courage and military virtui«, Itnwdon Hastings, horn ]7."i4, died i hated by others for -his cruel tem|)er 1H20, who entered the army at the and proud nnd overhearing manners, age of 17. Was s<.nt to .Vinerlea ill | hut res,iected and feared alike by 'rioud unl foe, and with the cre.'it of having, with trifling aid from France, supported and Increaseii the strength of a colony which ho had found, on his renpiwlntment, at the hrlnk of ruin. He also died, im he had lived. In l>ad o,lor witli the Jesuits, and was shrived in his last lir>urs by a liecoliet ' Fatlier, and Imrleil In the Kecollet' Church Inste/'d of Ui the cathedrnl.i rhe „c«ultM letahated by abusing h'r: In Ills grave. Kingston, the first township su veyeil in this locality for the Loyal- ists, was so callod Jn honor of King '•eorge 111., corresponding to (Jueen- inanded a Drltlsh <-orp8 In South Cnro- liiin at the Ilattle of Camden, 17,H0, nnd defeated Greene at Iloiiklrk's Hill, lieturnlng to ]-Uigtiind was eaiitured by a l-'rem-h cruiser. On his n-lease was ereati.d Itaroll ItaWilon by King Gtsirge III, and in 17i»d suecc-eded lus fntlier as I^arl of Mulra. In 17il4 he c-oinmaniled 10,1) Kl nn-n m-nt to relieve the Ihike of Ynrk isfin of Geo. HI.) in Flaiiiiers. In IsiHl was appointed Mas- tc.r General of the ordnanee in tlie , _„ ^ Grenville and Fox .Ministry, and aft<.r!ston at the otuer end irf Lake On- s-ometliues rememtiercd with expres- sions of good-w-ill in tile abodes of those whose lot it is to lalHir and to earn their dally bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall counties and l,'i^ townships. of Hettleinent, wliifdi the.v were un- \ mail of the I'ro.ime, on the scale "ble to fulfil. In the Arcliives there of 20 miles to 1 inch, was prepared liv i-< a lett^T from Thomas Talbot to thi I>. W, Sniitli, Acting i^urieyor General i Puke of (uniberland, askhig the Uui. nf I'ins-r Canada, a copy of wnic' *" •''-'■■ ' •' ■ '■'--- '■ to ohtai'i fi-oni the King a township of land, trfi' from fecH and olillgations of IcK-atlon— the land to be snbse- iiucntly traiisferi-.Ml by the Puke to Talliot. Tld,s is nnmvered by a let- ti'r from tlie Hiike of Kent m l.or I HobllTt, il;l,U'd (ii-t. 11 til, 1^01, ill wliicli tlie j;r.-inl of the township ;s Is cnl!»d after the county of the same ; reeoinniended, hut Olie Puke dis-s not name in Kiigiand, It contains the wish his na,nie to appear in tli tr.iiis- townsliii>b ot inction. Mr. Kmiatiiigrr's " I,ife of .Maiden, named after a borough In (-oionel Taihot." puiilislied in IH.-iH, Kng.. on the cheimer Uiver, contains mneii v.-iimihle iiiformatii.n bill is taken from tlie Poiniiiion Ar- ciiivps of ISUl. Tills niui) shows the l^oiince of 'intarlo, as it was organ- ized juBt lOU years ago. I-:8S1-;X COUNTY. Essex, Bonielimes Mersi'ii, England, NiTtl ■ slK'llc:! Maldoll. .-i finely wiKjdud island of ill i;s.-,i-'x, in a hay ol the , iiillid llie ISIackwater, connected wUii the inainl:uid !)y a Laig causeway covered at high water. Uochester, from a cit ■ of Kent, E^g- l-iiid, U" miles from London; contains a cathe.lrai grammar school, found- ed bv lleiii.v Vlll. in 1.-J42. and the ■• Pixir Traveller's House," fonii'led by Pi,.:..ir,I v.atts in the reign of EHin- bi'tii.' The cathedral dales from U04, rebuilt aliout HJ70. Maidstoiir'. from a borough and muket town In Kent, England, dj miles from London, on tin' Itiver Mod- way. Noted for pais-T manufactures Colchester, from a dtv In Essex, Eng- | Its towiisiiLps are: laVid ontlieuVverColne, .-,1 inilcsrrom!.,Lo,i,loii, aftca- the great city London. Contains (-hurches back to Edward II. and Henry I -liied bv the llomam. Camiilodnnum. • ' ,- vicinity Is rich In lUniinn coins, -.r .,, urns, iiottery, rings and other ■ e.-in niitlMeities. ColcheKter lelhain hi tlie third ; Walnfliwt, Croiv- eoneernliig tiK' ...i-ttlenient of the Lo.i- '. land, IIuinlx>rstC)ne an i Il(?rtie in the don and St. Thomas dtatrlcts. I fourth. Ily the InUm Act of IW-KJ the Ilayham. from \iseount Itayliam, | old first and sf-ciond riiiliigs wer.- iiiiid. Lord Camden. | into tlie North Uldlngaiid llie third and Dorchester Is the eaiiital of Iiorsi.t- fonrtl. ridings into tho Soutti l;|.i- j shire, in England, ll.'t mites from Lon- - —■ don. The Uoinans surrounded it with a wall. .Vfter Moiiiiioiith's rehellion in i 10M.->, .ludge .Jeffreys held the lilisjily s and writers, but he brought in no " gagging act" for tlie press, and though the lives of most of his assail- ants were in his hands through their Intrigues with the Pretender he made no use of ids power over them. Where his country breeding showed Itself most however, was In the shrewd, narrow, honest chaiac r of iiis mind. He saw very clearly, but ho , , *, * , ,. n , ■oi.ld not see far, .-iiid he would i,„t I ""'J' '» *''"* ' «""" "•■"'"' " "«"»' believe what he could not see. 1 " It was no mere chance «*r good { luck which maintained Walpol." at the head of affairs for more than 20 ' years." — Green. I " The most pernicious clrcum- ; stances In which this country can br? - are those of war, as we must be lo.sers while it lasts, and cannot he great gainers when It ends."— Sir It. Wal- pole. " They may ring their ImIIb now," \'al|iolo said bitterly, as iie.iU nnd I'fjiifires welcomed his reluctant coii- w'lil to the declaration of w:ir iigiiinst Si>aln In 17;i;i, "hut they will scsjn be wringing their hands." WELLANl) COUNTY Was originally a part of Lliieoln and (Um^ not niipea.r In -the e<.nsus as a separat*? county until isrd. Liiieohi also n clinksl wluit Is now Sf Toronto, and for siiiiie time ti> the sit<. of piirt lIo|).i; then back to Toronto city in York and Toroii- ti) township in l'is>l (Vniiity. Albion, an ancient iinme of Eng land. Caledon, from a town Ci.iinty of Tyrone, Ireland .lames Alevander. Earl nf Mil Irish grniinattKl tlie Nepaiii War. .•^uhseiiuelitl.v Governor of Malta. In IHIO was ere:il4'd \'lseonnt Loudoun, I-^irl of hnwdon and Marquis of Hast- ings. Gre*>n says; "Lord llastiiigs de- Bi'rves credit for imviiig the way tor till* ahoiitlon of the siitU'e." Lord liavvdoii was the Duke of York's ss of ("Idiiey, calli'u afti'r Lord Sidney, w ho was Secretary for the Colonies In 1770. Thiirlow, after the I,ord Chancellor who was In office for many years dur- ing the last halt of the 18th century, unit w host! siM-e^di about "the accident of an aechUnit," in i-epl,v to the Duke of Grafton, is st.ll recited in the Sl-lllHllS. Tyendlnnga, tlw Indian iianu> of tile .Mohawk eiiief Uraiit. Uawdoii. friMU Frniiels Uawdoii Hast- ings, first \ iseouiit Loudoun. Ilniitiiigton, from the iiiotlier of the first \ iHt'oiint Loudoun, w lio was a giit4'r of the Ejirl of Hiii'tingtoi tarlo. willed was called after Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III. Wolfe Island, after General .lame* Wolfe, liorn In Kent In 1720. killed at the capture of Quebec from the' Ireneli. 17."iy. He wns with Amherst at the sh.ge of Loulsberg in 1758, was only In his !i4th year when he (ell, and his remains were conveyed to England and Interred at Greenwich. Plttslmrg was called after William Pitt, second boo of " the great Com- moner," w|. vas Chancellor of the Exolmiiuer nr-t iTrnjler at 25 and whose " bitterest enemies did not ihire to accuse him of ' ng un- lawful gain." His care, . »rom the time he entered Parliament as a mere youth to his death In IcJOO, aged 48 years, havhiB been twenty-five years In Parliament, Is famlUax to all stu- dents of English history. Ho was the author of the Constitutional Act! of 17U1, which made Upper Caiiadi, a j separate province. ' Loughborough takes its name from i tlu Lonl L<.i>,;l boroiigli who was Att.irney General in 178 1, mentioned I by thB N. li. I!|i)v!ew in this senteuco ; "Lord Thurlow and Lord Loughbor- ough WLft) probably men as devoid I of principle as any In tlie prweding j Seneration " Green .sa.vs that Lord Loiigii borough, the Chancellor, trea- cherously communicateil I'iifs Catlio- ' tic cmaneliiation pro>H;t to i the Kuig. " 1 count any man my personal eiie.ny, " George broke out angrily, to Duudus, ' who Proposes any suoii measure.' This drove ntt from office, 1801. tirt-nviile followed him Into retire- ment, ami .UhUngtoii Huecis'ded as iin;s ,ui,g.'rfonl, from a tl.h' of tU. ii.st-l\i:^r:i noX>'-'''TZ'XJi^T lireMiitatlve of the family, the Hob- family, conferred ill 1 CIO. Ihiron tings, of Ashliy de la /ouelie, was mur.lered in tin Tower by order of ! -.f'.i ol 1 "., T, „ " KUlianl, Duke of GloucesU'r. Ills s.,n L|„,i''\V' i',' ^i^nii^.^v*"""'*, '"''" ''^ F.*l»ard Hastings was summoned tci ! ^'"'L'', ,?l"''''"A',.o.,' "I""^.. '''"■ .*?. ilatlng assizcvs at i>or(dK-ster and w-ntenee lost of the Insurgents to ik'atli. The Can.'iilliin to'.vnshis of Dorelies- ter \» called after the Governor-Gen- eral, Sir Guy L'arleton, Lord Dorches- ter. MIDDLIOSEX COUNTY In called after tlie Englhih Middlesex. In llstrlct In the tings Parliament In l-|s2 as ilaroii Hunger- Is enlied nfti'r Yorkshire in Eng- t ford. Ids wife Islng a daugtiti'r ot sir |4 land. Of Its townslilps Etobh'Oke has I Thomas Hungi'rford. and their son " all Indian name. | George was ereatid Ijirl of Hunting' York. iKWBihly aft»'r York city on ; ton. , the Uiver Giise, capital ot Yorkshire,; .Marmora conges from the Latin wurd lug. ""'lie n.'une of Welland County is Knglniid, faiuons for its minster or ; for marble, wliU-li aliouiids In tlie tow n- takeii from the Welhind Uiver in Idn- 1 c-atliedral, established in tlie si'ventli ;shlp. wntury. Y(»rk wiw tlie seat -if ijov-| l-driwlr. tn>ni a family of Dutch ihrliit- oriiinent wliili' tlie Itoiiians lield Ilri- - ors wlio live. I al Amstcnlain Is'lweeii tain. Its citizens joined the Scots .-lUii: |.^8:i and lOsl. The Gn'ek New Testa- Danes against William tlie Coaqueror, | meiit is ii'maig ttieir masterpieces. At wit.- iirtiT tlieir defeat rate. 1 tlie city -. . - to t he ground. Governor Slmcis. called Toronto by eolnshire. The name of LINCOLN COUNTY Ik taken fn>m the I'^igilsh County of Lincoln, WENTWOltTH COUNTY Gets it-i name from LhMitenant-re,-it hoiiw of liussi'tt. of whom Lord .lolni Uus- s<'ll. tiie I'rlnio Minister, was a iiot- ."T*"* "^'l' "' ..i*"" nation , liitrator of the Government of the Innislll, from Innlsfall. u uoetlcal 8t. Simon b/. Id tlmtPront^n,u"fni.n,l "'■•''«'• ""'' receiver of letters relot-'""*'^ Addlnrton from offl™ nnd nv (anadas, a position he held until 1810. |nam<; for Ireland. It Is found In tlHi It hard to l»ar the lmMrlS"s temwr '"8 *" La„ada In the Archives. Mac I o»"«d PUt to po-^r " (1804>. ; S'iT..""':''™'-...!"":™"'""'!'." 'laughter, | form JnnlHrall as a station on the Cal- of of his wife, and he wa« Klven the »"|ay dcscrlUjs King Ueorge III. as government of Canada In 1672 to deliver him from her, and afford him some meBius of living. He bulll, Fort Frontonnc at CatarMul and fought the Un«llBh and liioir Imiinii nnios at every opportunity^ Colden says: " De I'rontenoo stands conspicuous among nil his nation for deeds of crueltj. Nothing was more coramon than for his Indian prisoners to be ftlven up to his Indian allies to bo tor- tured." It >vas In Krontenac's time that slavery was legailjed In Can- ada. One hiuid'Bd years later It was nlwllshed by Governor Simeon's Par- :i, llameiit. McIMuUon s!!y« IVontenpc lei'Ueil, as be I: ad lived, ,ovod by some Is' '"' " d telling liundas to i^ccp hlH IScotch nietaiJhyhlcs to himself, when the Minister tried to |icri.;ude the King that it would be right to relieve the Catholics of tbeli iiolitlnal disabili- ties. He also Bays that Henry Dun- das, the Irfird Advocate of Scotland, was au able and verKaUlc iiolltician, and In siwiiking of I'lti's niggardly treatment of literary men, Macaulay says: "' Kveii Dundn.s who made no pretensions to literary taste, and was content to be considered as a hard-headed aud somewhat coarst; man of biibine;>.s m.vdii Uob(?rt Uurnri an exciseman, with seventy iioi'nd.; a j and RtlSSF.LL COUNTY Was called after Hon. I'eter Ku»- sell, who come to Caiioda with Him- Sir Gordon BlUa, married Henry Howard,"" Earl ] gory and Edmonton Knilway. "', EffI igl'am. I Sunnldalo, from Sunny Dale, descrlh- I'nkenbara. after General Sir Eil-ied by the author of Smith's Canada warU Dukenhnm, killed at the battle , as the worst township in the county. ments; Chief Secretary for Ire- land In Lord Grey's Govemment ; Colonial Secretary in 1888, when be carried the measure for emancipat- ing the Wout India slaves ; Colonial Secretary a«aln In 1841-43, when he went to the House of Lords. Pre- mier In 1852 and 1858. AKhfield, from the village of Ash- fielil, in Suffolk, where Lord Chancel- lor Tliurlow was born. Turnberry— Sold to be the name of part of the Bruce estate In Scot- ^'^i?v*^.^^Tr^riG;.-;i ^^:^.-Lt!t^^^'^^ HH5£B^^« tlve and Executive Councils, tjpon Slmcv,o'B depurtuto, Mr. Uussell, as senior member of the ( ounctl, bronme Acting Governor until the arrival of General Hunter in 179U. His name is freiiu'ently mentioned In the Cnn- adlan Archives, and not always In a complimentary manner. In fr.ct, he appears to have Id'Cii a land gral ber. though he wrote to the Duke ! the Honornblo Sir B. I'ackenlinm — -.. _„ „„,ybar, and this was more than lltt, for his courage and military virtues, i during his long term of oiriee, hated by others for-hls cruel temperjthc encouraguniunt of letters." Dun and proud nnd overbearing manners.idas probably little thought that the | f)"™ ,,L"j?5" "*, «^LT,\" "' ,^"' but re(.„ected an,l feared alike by : name of Durns would be much better °"!^ '^f*!?' ?.' "'"''"» "'" rlond an 1 f<«, and with the credit of i known than his own name, before lK>th '" "" ' having, with trifling aid from France, \ had been 100 years dead. Duiidits lie- supported nnd Increased the strength ! tame Lord Jlelvillc and was ilLsiiils-sed i , . , of a colony which ho had founu, on j and Imiienclied for iweulatlon, "thoiiKh ! '"^"™ '," ■""'''I'K ^ his reapiK) ntment, at the brink of] few believed tl...t he himself proliti'.d i "'■''" ,™'7- •*»*,«"■ ruin, lie also .liei, a« he had lived. In by the scamlalous diahoae.sty wliicli " " "' 1 , "'°.'" y,'*''.' "'" •'<»i'lt«, and wasi prevailed In his otflii- " He was fond shrived In his last hrnirs by a liecollet | of ai>|iolntiMg his rciatlon.s to sinecur.! lather, and .burled In the liecollet: of (lies. Dr. Doraii, in his book on ,V "■■'' '"«'^''.'','*f'''tl''' (-atlicdral.i" Habits ami ilen," published in rh),..«ult« retaliated by abusing bir 1H34, says: "We read now, with K ,^i;';if,''®fi,^ fi .► . > .:jmetliiiig of wonder, of i:harles I'ox vev. t'^tV ,'■ if ,"?' township su and tlie I'rince of Wales getting drunk isu, w^lJ. n.Tri"*.' •"■ '!'« Loy'il-|t<,to-a-tete in St. .Tames 6tr.*t,*ai,d of u^>'J! in ^'" ' '" .""'"'■ "f l-^l'iSli'ltt ami Duiidas riding houie In the George 111.. com=s|.Midlu,5 to Queen- 1 same happy staf! from AddUroinb''. bilking the turnpikes, and being fire at for highwaymen." Tlie name ot DuikLih ban been given to a town in Wentwortli County .•iiid to many louds ami streets in Oiit.irio, as well UH to Dundas County. The townsliips in Dundas are Matilda, after the ITImess Itoynl. ChurlotU Augusta MaldJa, lentil cliiid anil first daughter of King ■' (irge 111., who married Frederick, ston at the otuor end of Lake On- tario, whicii was called after Queen Charlotte, wife of King George HI. Wolfe Island, after General .lames Wolfe, Ijorn In Kent In 1720, killed at the capture of Quebec from the Ireiieh. 17.".'J. He wns with Amliei-st at tlie siege of Loulsberg in 17,")8, was only in his !i4th year when he fell, and Ills remains were conveyed to England and Interi-ed at Greenwich I'ittsburg was called after William I'ltt, second boo of " the great Com- mouer," wh vaa Chancellor of the l.xolmijuar nnl iTemier Bt 25 and whose " bitterest enemies did not itare to accuse him of ' ag un- lawful gain." Ills care. . .rom the time he entered Parliament ns a mere youth to his Oeatli in ld06, aged 40 years, having been twenty-five years in I'urlinment. is familiar to all stu- deuUi of English history. He was King of Wurtcmbur^. \MlllainKburg. aft«T Prince William Henry, Duke of Clarence, nftcrnard iHag \>'ldlaiii IV. Mountain, called after Right Kev. Jacob Mountain, first Pretestant Ulshop of Quebec, torn 17.10, came to Canada In 17I)!<. His son was also Ulshop of Quebec. Wiucl-ester, after the city in llamp.shlre, l-'nglaud. which was the the author of the Constitutional Act '"*""' ' "' '■"P'*«' of ^'"8 Alfred the . .# IVii-l I- > .. I. .... %. .. •■v V iliiHi.i^ IKIi) III tukM.-i lln null Ii'ltiii- !'..•> of 17U1, which nuvde Upper Conadi. a separate province. Ixjugliborough takes Its name frfiui tilt Lonl l^c.Ujfl borongii who wai Att.irney General In 178 1, mentioned by the .\. li. linn lew in this senteace ; 'Lori! Tliurlow and Lord Loughbor- ough \ycfK probably men as devoid of pT.'nclple as any In the prweding Seueration ' lireeii tn\\K that Lord l.ougnborougfi, the Chanceiiur, trea- cherously eomniunicatoil Pitt's Catho- lic cnianelpatlon pro>H!t to the King. •■ 1 count aiiv man my ller^ollal ene.iiy, ' George broke out nngrlly, to Imndas, ■' who liroposes any sucn measure.' Tliw drove Pitt from office, 1801. Iireiivllle followed him Into retint- luent, and .Vdiliiigton suecM-iied as Ireniier. lord l.ougliliiiroii|r|i b<'eaniu Karl o( lioKslyn. of the iireseiit ro- prewntatlve of the family, ilie Itob- cnygeon Indeiwnileut says: " Lonl liosslyn Is a young man who blew In .iilOU.Ooo a year fur seven years after attaining his ma>)rity, ami an estate. .Now he is earning ■JIO a jveek at a small tliiatnv Would It not have b<»ii Imtter had ilie State eollfiseated tine estate In dentil dil- I ties'.' The young iirofllgiite' had no right to It whate.er. 'I'lie only pre- tenslon to .-1 right was the mere ae Ichlent of bij-tii. The estate was taken from the state ami held by tiie lan« of the .sitate, ami to the State it hhould haio n'tnirned." I'lii.-tlaiid. fr^iMj Wm, ihjke of I'nrt- Innd, lolonlal si-cretary In 17fl(l, to whom miieli of the eorrcHiiondcnee In the Areldvcwi was addressed. lie was ihsiM'iideil fnmi the Hutch Wil- liam Piiitinck, upon whom honors and eKtat«'H «erti c(uifern'd liv Klim "illiani 111. I:«ilfiird, afu-r the lni{llsli ( oiintv, |« the laikr, li.Mid of the ijreat Ikiumi iif Uussell, of w iKiui Lord .lohn llus- s<'ll, tlie Prime .Minister, was a noted meinlMT. Illnehlabrooke, fron: a title of the i:arl of Sandwich, a meiiibi r uf the iiiiki> of (iraftiin's (ei\eriiniem, ij, Great, luid where ho and King Ian ute were burled. There he udmlnls- '• te'ed his government and pursued his studies. There he wrote his Uioks and codified the laws which for ten centuries have fwmed the basis of the "common laAv" of all Engllsh- spenklng lands. There be founded an abliey. nnd tls'r! he died and was \ burled. Wlncliestt>r Is entitled to lie the centre of all the homage the \> hole empire may pay to the mem- ory of the first King of United Fng- land, the real foundi^r of the present world-v^hle empire. In such homage. Indeed, nil branches of the .Vn}:;lo- Saxon stock, however remote, may proi>4'rI.v Join. One thousand years 'ago. King Alfred fr««ed l-:ngland from fondgn domination and made It a united klngilcm. He founded schools and began the Intellivtual life of the I I'.agllsii [leople. He Introduced into England the system of accurate measurement of time. He founded the foreign commerce of i:ug- liuid. He founded English lit- erature, lie gave the Eiijt- liKh-H]K.'aklng world Its common law. He fought fifty-sis Isittles by gi>a and laud. He n^lgned for thirty years ns not onl5- tlut King of England, but Its the "guhki. philosopher ami of Portland, on Jul.- 18th. 17il9 " The ( ouncll anil inyseli are ox- dl I tor "'**'""8'y '-aPPy that Your Grace ap- lui lor I p^.m.j| ^y approve of the steps we have taken to get rid of the pernle- WJlStO lands of the Crown bj- appropriating large tracts to af-soclat^ul companl-.s and our determination to [iroceed in making trrants ti> Indlvl !- •f^w In ilio latter ease it has not lieen always In our power to counteract the Mdiemes of KiMM-uIntor.s ami laml jobliers, who are const;intly practicing n thous- tijid arts to evade our vigilance.'" On the other band, tli>-re In;i let- t<'r from Governor Hunter to Mr. King, dated (V-telier ;i7th. 17UU, In \\ lilch be says : "The Councillors arc all g(K>il men ; Uussell, had it li^'iiemled on him. and being fired 11"\'|^ have granted laiids to the — » ■ '■ ' iiovll and all Ids family (as good loy- j alists), proviiled , they could have paid the fees.*" MeMullen Ray:^ that Knssell wns accused of Illegally making grants of land to Iilms4'lf and to Ids relatives nnd particular friends. S^-arehes In the i-eglstr.v offices have full.v con- firmed these nceusations. He niaile few personal enemli'S, but hl< avarii-c njid the manner in which he per- niltted land monopolies to arise, ser- iously Interfered witli the settlement of tlie Province, and laid the foun- dattonuof maij.T evlls. itussell never married lUid died ot norunto a rich man, leaving a oortlon of his estate to the linldwln family." Tlu' t<>wnwhlpM of Uussell are: Uuh-seil, after the Hon. Peter Bus- sell. Cambridge, after I'rlnce Adolphus. Duke of Cumbrlilge, son of King Geo-go 111. Clarence, after Prince Irew Jackson, commanded "tlii Am- j Vespra, probably from the Latin gi-a'ted to Sii'd^"^^ township emi- iM^Vd- r^n»^h .,. I. 1 n .1 » ;vcs|K.r, evening, Greek, liesperos, the Stephen, from James Stephen, Jun., In lib lmo -ii..- fo.- liberated slaves, the African Minister, who carried the Reform name of Oro was hcloetod. Hill Ui 18,'i2. "Shanty Bay wa;< first settled by Howlck, after bis son and «m. O Hrlcn, who came to sor, Vlseount Howlck. Godcrlch township and tCTrn wrote: "It Is not neccssnjy for me to ci-l patlato to you upon the loss thej nay has sustaUied in MnJoi^Generol CoiHiiiai-der-ln-el'lef of this fcrcc, nor coukI I do so in adequate terms. His Horvloes and merits are so well known that I have only, 'n common with the whole a.rrny, to express my sin- cere regret, which may be nu|i|)oBed Lleut.-Col tliH dl^tilot some sixty ye.irM ago (thl was written fviinty years ago) on n sucoes- at this moment to come jiaxticular- idiilanthropic misohin in connection ly home to me. with a proiiosal, on this part of the ■ Tl e brave commander ot the forces, i BrltlKh Government, to found a col- wlio never la his life could refrain j ored colony In tlie township of Oro. from beliut at the poet of honor, and | The enthusiasm o7 the Wllberforee sharing the m Iw linnniT of I'eter Robbi»>n, who Inauguraited the immigration of Irish settlers to the l'. .*';« I'ly family, like the chiffodll son of King George III., horn 1771 force., in America. In 178:1 he evacu- nted New York ami wltlnUew the Ilrltlsli ships from America. In 17S0 be was iiuiilli a iieer, with a iienslon of £1.000 and siuit to Canada as Gcv- ernor-Generai, wliieh po«t he held till 17iKl, He was a strict disciplinarian, friend" of the English [leople. lohl- ' but kind of heart, and e-y (lopular ing nil a great light In a dark age with the French Cantidlans. He mar- and doing a gn'at work for elvlllza- ^ ried \au^ Maria, daughter of the tion amid an Ignorant and liarbar- [ Karl of Effliiglia,^, and died in 1808, died 18."»1. who Kueceeiled to the throne of Ilnnover in 1H:!7. and whose - n, George Frederick, was the last K..ig of Hanover. CAULETON COUNTY Got Its name froi.i Sir Guy Carlcton. afterward Ixjrii Dorcliester, who ac- companied Wolfe's expedition to Can- ada and took part in the battle of the PlaiiiH of Abraham. In 1707. tJeu- eral Murray going to Eiiglainl, the government of the citlony devolve.! on Carleton. In 1770 he went to Eng- land, but returned to Canada in 1771, and defended (iuels-e from the attack of Mcntgomery and Arnohl. In 17S2: Cnrleton succeeded Sir Henry Clinton i given him liecauso Wellington achlev as co.niiiander-le-«'lilet of Ills Majesty's „,| the brilli:>.nt exploit of crossing which probably abomids there. Homer sometimes uses asphoiielos as an adj^'ctlve. as In Odysse/ .\1. ,1.19 — "nsphoilelos Iclmon," the o- hodel meadow, whicil the shades of neroes haunted. Hence I'Icturesque Canada, p. 642: "With propriety, prolmbly uncon- scious, a township on the lower edge of UU:e Lakt\ has been named Aspho- del, no unfit name for well-waterel meadows, where the shades of In- dian beroe" may still linger." Dumiuer, after Chief Justice Wil- liam Dummer Powell, a mcmLwr of til*' Family Compact. Douro. One of the titles of the Duke of ^V'elllngton Is Baron Doun), uis people, and he died leaving private name and a public record iin- sililleti 'illd liiistailied, but iuiuilious with such glor.v aw few monaridis in inj land (ir ag»' have wnn Tilt millenary of such honoring which tis' r;i(e merit iiian 1 human { Transferred will do itsi'lf high honor. STOK.Mi)NT COl'NTV Takes its iiiiiuu from Visciiunt Stor- nioiit, IreisUkMit uf the Council In the I ortluiul ((siUtlon Government of I7H.I a nxphew of William .Murray, UunI .Mansfield, the great Jurist of tlio IHtli eeiitiiry, who died in .179:1, and wliosi* pntiMTty was ii«-stroy(,d In tlie linr.li.il 1-luH 11 rliier ,hiH- aged 8a TliH townships of Carlcton county aie . osgoode, after William Osgisidc, Chief .lustiee of Canada, from 17112 to INiil . came out with Go\. Slincoe. Ui QueN'C ill 17111. 0«- giMi.te Hall In Toronto is nalned after lilMi. " He died ill arflueiil circum- stances, tlie result of laudable pru- dence, without the sinallest taint ol av.-irlee, or Illiberal pai-sinuiny" Gloueester, after the l-'.llgllsli coun- t.v, or the Diike of Glmieester, a son- in-law of George 111., husband of I'l-ineess Mary. G.mer. after Cell Gower, member .>f Pitt's G.iierninelit in 17H.'l. the River Douro in the face of the French army uj"ler Soiilt, and driv- ing them with great loss from Oporto, and beyond the limits of Portugu i. Ejiiiis.nore. cue ot the titles of the Earl o( LWtowel. who vas rahred to I the iH'i rage iw Baron Ennlsmore, of the Couiity of Kerr;-, Ireland. North .Monnghaii, from the County of .Moiiaghiui, Ireland. Smith, from Sir D. W. Sinii.., the ! Surve.Y'.'r Ueuera!. wh" mi'.de :i. n;M,« I of Vjiis>r innaila in 17US, was a ; niemU'r of the first thriH' Cjinadlan , Parliaments and Speaker In two of : them, iK.rii 1704. died lH;t7 : or Ellas i Smith, who built i mill at Smith's Cns'k (l-ort Hope) Iti 17!i;i : or Wll- I Ham Smith, the great English (.■ii'olo- i I gist, a friend of Wolta.ston and I I .-iviuiillsh, A-bo fe.inulat4-d a theory i on fossils nnd wc called "Strata Smith. .MethUTO, from the Duke of Hlcb- moiid, llaroii of Methuen In the P«s'rag>' of Scotland. Hiirleigli, frt,m a high officer of origin of the name have lieeii gnen 1. The lesser shore (('oiielilclilng, a Spanish diuiluutive of Ora). 2. Ame- lia, or Aurlea, a flower. Orllla (pronounced li-rlU-yeh) Is the Spanish word for bonier, margin, bank of river, shore of sea, and the town of 0,-lllia overlooks Lak? Slmcoe. On the latest map of the Railways and Canals Departuicnt, the name of the town is spelled Orllla. Flos, Tiny and Tay— " Ii Is hard to tell what spirit. If rot that of mis- chief, suggested the ii:imes of Flos, Tiny and Tuy, in Sinicts' county, since these were the nami« of three jioodle dogs Isdonglng to Governor Colhorne'n wife."— George Jolinsiin, Dominion Statistician. In J. CaHtell Hopkins' Canadian EncyLlope.iia, p. 204. Meiionte. from \ligll, AEiieid, Lib. vl., ll,.e 483- " QiKJS lUe nans Ingeiaiiit. Glaucunupie TherslkHjliumiiUo, Tres .Vntenoriuai, Cercrhiuc," etc. .Vcdoii, a Greek sohiler, brother ol thy lesser AJax, foug,.t against Troy, and woji slulu by .^Eaeas. .Mcdoii (Meoontosj, ,',ji, of Codrus, last King of .vttica, li.msL-K Arihoa for life. Mr. J. A. .MacLaren, of the Barrio I':xaminer. has ;.,!idly ruiiiished irifor- Illation oil Sliueoe County names. BliANT COL.M'Y Is called after the celebrated .Mo- hawk Indian Chief, Joseph Brant, who took tlie Britisli side in tlie revo- lutiohi.ry war, and was rewarded by a giant of land In the Grand River Valley. Ho was born in Ohio and died at Wellingten Sipiare iBurllngtou), On- tario. In the Archives of 1892, Mr. Dou- glas Brj inner wrlU-s; "The disputes of the Six Nations on the Grand River I respecting tlieir lauds were aggra- vated by the occasional ebullitions of loseph Brant, who, when under the Influence ot Ihiuor, docs not apiicar to have been guai ed lu the lone of his langL-.;igc." The tewiis: lp« of Brant county are liiantford, or Brant's ford, cross- ing of the Grand River. Brant threw a boom across the river at that iioint. Tuscarora and Onondaga, names of trils's of the S'l Nation.' Indians. South Dumfries, from the county ol Dumfries, lu S»otland. „, ,,, , ^, , , . . "In 1811, Hon. William Dloksr.n pur- i °'.''„f^'P '"*'«' '^'','^1' ""y„ „i clmse.1 the town.sliip. which he J """f," '"."'• '-""V' Cutlib..rt Colllng- naim-d Dumfries, aft.-r lil.s native town ^X^' ' V ri^*^"^-',"""' „'!"" 'P'i?."*, ,''"■" In Scotland. At Mr. Dl,-k«ui'., re.!mH,t ^V.lTtn L^ „t . i,^^ ^L"' i 1V^'"''';'^ the Post-office oT this new settle- "',*. '"*5 ?M''''- "^^ 'i-'-J^\i- '"'L"' iiriv ' ••d"tp!V.-»-! .11*.,, Ji:tn-il rllt, Y^^-j. A-- played a consiiicuous part In Lord Howe's victory, June 1st, 1794, and In Jervls" victory off CniK> VIncimt In 171)7. He wns sivond In command at Trafalgar. Ills ship, the Royal Sov- naraed after Sir Fred. John Robin- son, Viscount Goderlih, Earl of Rl- pon, Colonial Minister In 18,'!0. who died In 18B9. Ills son nnd successor has been In ,il>out every Liberal Mln- ["try since lH"i9, nnd was Chalr- ninn of the High Joint Commission, which draft-.Hl the Treaty of Wash- ington In iflX. He resigned the Grand Ifawterahip of the English Free Masoni) in 1R74, when he Jnin- ed the Cuthohc Church. Mas LlBars, in her book, quotetr the phrase, " Goosey Godet Ich." Colborne,froin Sir John Colborne,Lor(l Seaton, who wrxed In the Peninsular campaign ; at ( oruiina, under Sir John Moore ; was Lieut. -Gov. of Isle Guern- sey (the Roman name of which was Sarnln) ; Lleut.-Gov. Canada (1829- 18 ,.",) ; commander of forces during re- bellion and Governor-General after Lord Durham. Was a siern adminis- trator, exe<-uted 12 rebels at Mont- real Lord .Seaton married a daughter of James Yonge, of Pimlliieh, Devon, Eng. The village of Colborne In North- urols'rland count.v, main street In Brantford city. Port Colborne, ter- minus of Wellnnd ( annl, and Colborne township In Huron county named after Sir John Colborne. Di-nt mentions that Sir J, Colboriie was exhibited in efflcr In tlie streets of Hamilton, in 1829. CplM,V?-Sn'i"dS'raeP'V'l%itSWfi5!«'-«>I We have hdt lu tiie Western Penin- sula three (Oiintlcs, tiie names of which are singularly connecttMl. 'irey, after the Prune Minister of England. 1832. Lambton, after John George Lamb- ton, flr.st Earl of Durham who married Lady ElliaDcth Grey, daughter ot Eari Grey, and Bruce, after James Bruce, Earl of Elgin, who raarrleii Emily lambton, daughter of the Barl of Durham. GREY COUNTY. In the county of Grey we find the township names of Bentinck, after Lord William Ben- tliick, who succeetled I,ord .Vmherst In the Go.-ernor-Generalshlp of India (1828-34), under whom Sir Charles Meteolfe served, and of whom it is written that "Lord William Bentinck, a Liberal to the core, encouraged the press, snapped his fingers at its ot- tacki on hheself, nnd thought Its free- dom an Immense giKHl." He was a son of the Duke of Portland. Glenelg, a name that si<>lls alike backward nnd forward— after Lord Glenelg, Colonial Secretary In 183."), a name which was a houaehold word In Canada at the time of the Lvon I.Iae- keiitle rebellion. "lyord Glenelg, with the best Intentions In the world, had & poGltlvc genius for doing the wrong tiling."— Miss LIzars. Artemisia, a plant of the wormwood or tansy varletj. Osprey, a flali-hawk, also the name inellt wa" uaiucd Gall, afu-r lll^ early friend and schoolmate In Edinburgh." — Pieturi snuo Canada, p. 4(1:1. lliirford, IXhleli forini riy tsdonged to Oxford County, Is the iiaiue ot a plni'e ill Oxford, England, and Karl of Harford Is (Mie ot the title.s of the Duke of St Albans. oaklard, a small township formerlv callcl the Gore ot IlurtonI, probablv got Its najne from the oak trtt-s. WELLl.NGTON COUNTY' Tisik its name from Artiiur Welleslev, Duke of Welllngtoa, born at Dublin ITtiii, men at Waliner CastU', Is.-,;.-, •ndgii, was the first to attiu-K an 1 break the enemy's line, and upon the death of Nelson, t\illliigwood finished the \letory and continued In command of the flrt't. St Vincent, the gi-ent naval battle in 171)7.— sir John Jerils, of Mcaford, was made Earl ot St \ iiu-ciit .Syilenham, from I,ord Svdenhan- Governor of Can ida In ]'i;lii-ll iMi named Diimfi-les, after his nativ,- town In Scotland. At .Mr Iiliii^,,,'^ ,.„,.,.u.t wiHid, the Ai'ml Nelson nt St. mlrji! Mlict'lit and 'Priifale . laanvuuiaiuumifnmMVTnimni U.I Walls in till ri'lKii of Mliza- ilules frum 0(U, ()[ mo hiHurirt'iitw U> tiriith. Till" '■aimili.ui towii.slilp iif lion'licK-' tcr in riiliiiil uTtcr tlic (iovpriii)r-(li'ii- 1 prnl, Sir Ouy CBrlcton, Lord Doroiiii*- ter. l.liiroln. hrlh. Till,' ratllrilrul ri.biillt iilKiut 11)70. Miiiilstoiic, frum n lK)roiigli anil inarkul town In Kent, I'.nglnml. .')2 iiiUes from Lonilon, on tlii- Itivor Moil- wny. Noted tor pajwr nianui'ncturBii. Colchcator, from ii olty in Esbcx, Eng- land, on the Ulvcr I'olni!, 51 miles from London. Tontnlns ilmrclieH dating back to Edward II. nnd Henry I. Called by tlic llomana Cnmulodunum. The vicinity In rich In Konian coins, vaw's, urnf), imtteiy, rings and other llomnn nntliiultles. ColeheHtcr was fortified bv Kdward the I'.liler. and at the time of the T>-l!S17, WHS raised to the lieerage as Baroa Colcheator. (Josdeld, from a park In JSHaex. Eng- land, cast of Urndtleld. Tilbury, from Tilbury Fort on the Thames In Jiiscx, opposite Oravesend In Kmit ; a large brick fortifloatlon .rlgliially erectwl by Henry VIII. Anderdon, an Indian rtserve cut off from Maiden In 1791, when the Huron Tract was mirr»ndered by the Indians to the Crown. Origin of the name un- known. Sandwioh, from an English borough nnd Cinque Tort In Kent I'ounty, with thre<' nneleni: hospitals. About the bo- f:inniiig of the Irtili century tlie fili- ng up of the harbor with sand reduced Its Importance as a port. [Sandwich was frequently attacked by the Danes [.I'd plundered by the French In the wars. .loini Montagu, fourth Earl of Sand- wich, born 171S, illed 1792. was First Lord of the Admlraltv 17l8-.^il, 17<5. emlmnkm"nt. Honiney Marsh „-i(|i n,g I'lcts. A II 08.", was a favorite place for smngglcrs to; ■ niwratf In the olii days DLi:«EX COUNTY b< c4i:iod after the Bngllnh Middlesex. lt« townshl;M ajo: Loiukjii, after the great city In Knglainl. WeBtiuLnater, after a illstrl-.t in '/lis City of Loiukui. Adehihlc, after the wife of King William IV. Metcalfe, after Sir Charles Metcalfe, who was Ciovcrnor-lleneral of Canada In 184.'J, who piirforincd eminent ser- vh!eM In India, nnd w' 'jse epitaph, written by Maoaulay, terms him "a Htateflman, tried In many offices and difficult coi'hii; tiiros, and found ciiual to all." A ij.-. 1 man, kind, genero.ia and affnbli', with a heart overflow- ing with Clirl.stlan charity, and a hand over remly to luwlst the needy. Sir CharlBH Metivalfe removed every re- striction and conferred npu'i British India a totally unshncklod press. Caru(k», after a dUrtrlct In VValeg, mentioned by Sir Roderick Murchlson, the geolqgijrt; or from the Ulght Hon. John Hobart Curadoo, Lord How- den, born 1799. As Colonel Carndoc he wa« present at Nnvarlno and at the siege of Antwerp. In 1850 waa ambaHsaitor at the Court of Madrid. He sat In rarll.-\ment as M. I>. for Dun- dalk before the passing of the 'He- form BUI. Mwu, the Latin nnd Spanish name of the iciver .Meuse. In Dclglo (inn.. It wati on the banks of the ItlvcT MeiiHO that Blucher's" I>russlan army wa.s drawn u!> a few days btfore the battle of W.-iterloo. I-obo. the Spnnhili wr ,1 for wolf. I!elawnn>, from the Indians, who, having- boeii converted by the Mor- avians, werv driven from one point to i.notlier In the Tnltcd States, some of them finally settling on the Thames Hlver In Fpiier Canada. The name comex from Lord Ite la Warr, Gover- nor of Virginia, in IMO. who.sc title Is Ktill to be found in tijo British peerage, borne by Snckvllle-West. "Tan, many" was a Lelnvan? ( hlef Biildnlph. from .Tohn liiddulph, one of the original directors of the Can- ' ada Land Coniimny. I Xrciilliivray, from Simon McGilll- : vray. another dii'ector. Williams. East nnd West, from Wll- , Ham Wiliiam.s, M. 1'., anotlier director. > Ekfrlil. unknown. The neari.'st ap- , a king of the war (ieneral Wolfe, Dover, from a seaiiort town ... Kent, Kngland, where Caesar first lO" the proluct tried to land; famouH for Its castle, »P»Titcd. witli wails enclosliiK .1.) acres and!..' tt^h'ini. from luirracks for M'Oil have been fouade.i by the liomans lialeigli.— There is a town i died Kiileigh on the old maps of !■;«- M'X, Englaud Tlie toweshlp may tiKik the iume uf , „„ _ a imijket town i Uien, supposed to I Norfolk, Kngland, 1." miles from Nor- WENTWOUTH COl'NTY (lets Its namo from Lleutennnt-Oov- eriior John Wentworth, of Nova .>Jcotla, 179B-180H, to whom Mr. Dnn- diiH wrote un Hth l-(di. 179il : "Sir, -1 have received the King's command to signify to you His .\l;ij- estys pleaauro that you do li.stantly take the ueoessiu-y steps for raising and forming from amongst the in- habitants of Nova Scotia a coriw not exceeding etX) men, to bo illvlded Into SIX comimnies and Ills Majesty Is grncloiwly pleased to allow vou to command this ccrps, witli the pro- visional rank of colonel, hut without any pay In coiiBeil him Oovornorr of New Hamiwhlre In 1700. and .'*urveyop-Goneral of tlie King's woods In North America, a i)Os- Itiiiii In which he acquired great wealth. Wh.m the Revolutionary vVar broke out lie removed to Nova :»cotla His only son died childless, and left the property to his cousin. Catii- arine Francis Gore, the novelist. The niunes of the townships It' the old county of Lincoln, clear up to the Dcsjardliu) Canal, are taken from I.lneolnshlre. They are Statnforil, from a very old town in Lincolnshire. Its name, an arly form of which was Staeiiford, was ik'rlved from a passage at the town across the Wei, and Hlver by stone. The first bat- tle of the ! lets alward II., and much admired By antiquarians. Thorold, from a Lincolnshire village. Waiiifle Lud, fam- ous for oi,anufaetures. Cnistor, from « town In Lincoln, England, 11 miles fnrni Grimsbv, the church lieliig rebuilt by Heng'ist r>ii as miicJi lanil as the hide of an ox, cut into thoiii^. would over. Hiiilirook, fi-Din u vilhih,^ In Lincoln- shire. Barton, from Bnrtoii-iipoii llumlier, a LIncolnsliire town uf ci.iisiilerahje antiquity, a jilace of iniiiori,-inc( t'... time of tlie Norman comptest The remains of the old rainpnrt am fosse (.re still visible. I'Mii tlif r,,iiii,ii-rnr. feat razed t la' I'ltv i» ihcs ai;aiii,^l W ill wh I after tlnir ili- to t he groiiiiil. Ooveriior Slmcix cnlles are : Wlilthy. from a si^ajiort town In York county. England, on the River Ksk. It lia« lately become u place uf winter resort. lai-Mt IS Miiiolii; llii'ir lliiisleridc-cH. At leant 1,001) works were publuilivd by tlio Eiievlrs. •Miuloc, from the Welsh prince, who Lm thought by some to have silled to Amorlca In 1170. Truveilers i-!aliii- »t to have fiiunii truces of Welsh set- tlement In Mexico. Lake, frrwii Visi'onnt Gerard Lake, born 1744, dioil 1808, was commiiiider- lii-chlet In Ireland during tlie Insiin-ec- tlon of 1798, conduetod the Mahrattn war In India and took Ix-llil In IHO.'l, and brought tlio .Mmul l-Jiii|ieror Into viiMsalnge to (ir<>nt Britain. In his re- fereiHMi to the rolwlllon In Irehinil, (Irocn says: 'l-ew In tact had joined the liisurg.'iits In WexfonI wlien lyord Lake apis'ared Isfore their camp npin Vlniwar lliil with a strong fi«-(» of l-:i.girsh trtKips ontheSlstof May. The ci'Uij) was stornitxl, and with tla' dls- lierslon of Its ik'feuiters the revolt came suiklenly to an end." Tuikur. fnmi tlio Royal family name of Henry \II. and his successors to Jamas I. (We ah). Grlmsthoipe, a park In Llncolnsiilre. H«ri.-.>hel, after the groat astronom- er, Sir William, or his son, Sir l-'. W. Herwhel. Walhiston, from Dr. Win. Wnllaston, 1700-1828, celebrated chemist. Sec- retary Royal Sit»-ps of l^lr Humphrey Davy. Faraday (1791-18071 was most fortunate in ile- veloplag the relations of electricity to chemistry." -ilcClure, from Sir K. J. McClure, born at Wexford. Ireland, 18(17, who served In the Lake fleet during .he Canndlai Relieilioii of ISHB; '.ook part in sir .lolin 1!(«8' Arctic exiiedl- tlon In 184.8. nil commnnded tlie ex- pwlitlon which discovered the North- west Passage In 1850. For this ser- ! "i"^' he wv..» 'ivAsh*...! «.i«.i. «(MWso, from ' bear." I'aimerston, the SjianUih word for after _, , -, - . . Henry .Tohn Temiilc, ],ord I'aimerston. ' Old I'm,, ' the Premier In ]8:,r, and 18r,i), Foruign .'<<'cretary under Grey and .MelboiinVe. a man who bullied Kurojie la the most approved style. Born 17N|, died INI..'. A pxoinlnont l.-ader of the Lib- eral party until his death. Opposed the Afhburtoii treaty, siipiiorted Cath- olic emamlpatlon. ile<-i'arfl.;ico against Rur- shi. Iiidefatlsablo In business, fond Of the pleiihures of society and of great culture. .Miller, from Hi^gh Miller, the Scotch geologlit, author of " old Red Sand- stone." " Ciinonto-Aii niiM Indian says this _ , Wdrt Wie name ca i ^Yeneimiuu, wno Limerick, Cashcl, Dungannon, Mnvo. "*;?,'', *'*"' "'""J >'*'""'' «»«<'• Moiintoagle, Carlow. Bangor and! <'''"'n-Uiikliowi>- ,,., ,, = ..uPgor , «lcklow, trrjui countlos In Ireland, I'RINCE EDW.VHD UOUNTV W.as called by the French l^en- quisie ,k. (iiiiiitix Its ,,r..»fc.it numo was given in hon'ir of I'rlnce Edward Duke of Kent, son of George III.,aud father of yueen Victoria, wlio wns i stationed at (^iielioc with his regl- ' ini-iit when Hlmcoe was Governor. Iie- pi..i„.ri,,r r-, „ . , .1 V ,, i"""'"K '" ^'e Upiier Canada, the I'rlnce 1 Ukerliig. from a town In the North i diove to Montreal In n calecl wlcli Blenheim, from tlin viliage in Ba- varia. M here the great battle was fought in 1701, in which the llakw M'X, l^ngiauu 1 le lowi-suiii iiiaj ^ »ir,>,.lh,^B,...™i. ....» *i. t- i - have lK.^11 named after Sir Walter *,,f'''^,°"''f* '." \,i , J-"T ' I" Kalelgh, l.or.1 l.-.-,2, beheaded 1*11^.1 ,,",-„,„J7" ",'"'„ """'."*, ^^T"*""'''' :i favorW- of (iui-eu Elizabetii. whc^',,:'^'.''^'' '""'■>• „, rs'''""'' , T'''" brought poiuto,.s and tobacco from ^j"^ .^ •;„,^; """"" "'"' l'"'*nted to Virginia —" a man of imposing person dauntless courage, extensive kiiowl edge and varied accoiuplisiiiiients. lli^ siieecliMi sli!j\v a knowledge of the jirlnciple of iiolitical economy far above iiLS time." -Macauiay sa.vs in his tssay on "Bur ieigh and hi-, Tiiaus" : " We hud Intciiiied ti> say somrthing concerning liahigh the soldier, tin- sailor, the seholar, the courtier, tin orator, the jiis^t. tlie historinn. thi- pilllowophcr, wlajia we picture to oar seivcs. sometimes reviewing tlii- ijueen's guard, sometimes giviU'; cliasi- t4> a Spanish galleon, then ai.sivering- the chiefs of tin- country parly in the House of Commons, then again mur- niuring one of his sweet loM'-songs too iiiur the ears of Her Highue.ss' maidf *A iioiior, and soo.i after poring over the Talmud, or collutlng I'olybius with Livy." iirlord, from a t«»vn in Suffolk. lOagluiid, with n large ancle:;' church, and fine i-emalns of a .\'or- iu,-iu ca.s-tle. Mr Uoliert Waipole wa.- the first Earl of orford. Howard, nfti'r ilie Eur', of Kffing ham. \i iujwij lUiughur. Lady .Mary Howard, vvaw marra.'d U^ Sir Gny I ar.eloii. liovcniort-iUuK-ral of Can- ada,, at tla.' tune the.-fl; townshipii were surveyed and iiarjed. I'aniil^'n i\V,>sti in Kent, and Cam- ik-ii ti:asti ill Addington ( ouiity. from I haritis i'ratt, I. an of t am- 'X-ii and \'i...coniit Uayhain of Hay- liain .\lils-y, .^tis.-onsible for the following : ■ We venture to say that there are few is'ople who know how the towiuildp of Mssouri got its luime, .Vn old man. wluwe people now live in tile eastern part of Ontario and wlio in the very early history of .\lH.soiiri lived In tii" nortliern part of that towiisliip, (rave the writer n IllsUiry of how the township was named, which seeme.i i-easoaalile, alio is likely true, l/isig ago, when this ■jounty and otlier were known as BriH.-k in: Saltfleet. from a port town In Lin coin. England, east of liliihrook. Gl.inford. from Glantoni-Bilgg, oi Briilge, a village In Lincolnshire oi tiie liivei- Aneholme. Ancaster, from .^ncaster Heatii LIncolnsliire. Bertie and Wlllouglihy after i'ei-egriae Bertie, tllir.l Hake ofjil .\neaster and nineteenth Haroii Wil- lougiiliy. who was a member of tlie Cliatliamil70«) and Graftot. (1707) Governments. It is not easy to tell whether An- caster and the same ohservntlon riding of Vorkshlre, Fngland, eigllteen miles from Wliithy. I'IckerIng Foriwi and I'ickerilig Conunoii are sliuwii on the old maps of Yorkshire. Uxbridge. frr.ni a town of Mhldlo- s<'x county. England; fiom Henry I'aget, Karl of Ixiprhlge, whose son, Henry \Ullialii I'aget, Earl •>! I'x- bridge, lost a leg at Waterloo, all, I was created .Marquis of .Vnglescy. There was a story that when Lord 1 xhriiign's leg wii.s broken l.y a shut during the iKitth- of Waterloo lie was carried to the rear, uji.i passed llic at] Duke of Wclliagtoii to whom he said in the lanj^uagc of the perio-i . ".'.imi my leg. by G--:'- u, which the Duke replletl : 'Have you. hy G :" lUl.l storrlugton, saV' to be taken from tisi plaw of tlia' name in i;ngland, where ,sir Hei<.iO .iii.i (see irdi ifter a plare or after a ninn. ■ l!5l)2. p. ;!,-ii who with others was British custom of using hauled over the co.ils for getting' " .Amelia Thnckeray rememlH'rs hei-tlc pretty little „,aideii prr'tilng and smiling ill III,, anus of liic f„i,d (,|,| Mng, lier fatlii-r-aih! then her ileatli III tlie biiHii.i of woiiiaiihood, nnd the shock to tin. father's reason." •-'oplilasliurg, from l>rllicess Sophia, born 1777. .Marysliiirg. from I'rlncess Mnrv. born I7V11. who married Dnke of Gloucester. Ililiier, after Major Hllller, Sir jUengrine .Maitland's .siecretnry. Athol. after ihe Duke w-|i,i owned nnd sold the Isle of Man. Ha Howell, after Benjamin Unllowell. a Bost.Hi loyall-it, brother-in-law of Chief .lllstii-e Klmsley. wlio got a grant of a towiisliip of huni In Upi^'r name. I owing to till! names of places as titles for iiien There Is a place called Ancaster In Lineol:islilre, and Sir I 'ereg; ine Bertie, Di'ke of Ancjister, wa,s a .Minister of tiie Crown at or alsait tile time .\n- caster townslilp got its name. By the si\th secliou of the Consti- tutional Act ll7l,li provision was m.ide for tlie ereatlo.i of a herealtary nohiiity in Canada, with tlie liere.il- tary nglii of Iwlag s.miniuaed i.o the Legislative- Council. l'..|ipliy this au- thoiity was not exercised ; otherwise, as iiolH'rt Gourluy remarked, " we should have s-.uiig Irish- man, who had served with credit at .Mliiden." But Shelburiie Incompet- ent r<'pr..sentatlves of &igllsli and town was named hv He M ic.iulay after General Sir ' I'anndhin Interests than the two men Grace might now have lieen lolniiig counties i figuring as a pettyfot'g.llK lawyer, iiis tlie •- lllhtrict of' L-a-ilship iiii a pe iar, ,-iii.l Sir Knight jscotch wttiers named a si-c-: lu* a iioor ifursou, starving on ."ijOIJfl tion (known now as West and East;acri-s of clergy re <*rves." Zorra) after the liirtlijilace of Mamsoe.. ' We w-eri- simred tl. ■ spect.ieh' of such Some Vnnkee'; Ketlled In tlie west, alisir. ditles. aim life ineiiihers of the and in siie.-ij.iiig of the section of the! Legislathe ( ouncil wore tiie nuuri'st county 111 which they lived, oescribed approach to u nobility vouchsafed the pulilic res|S?ct, Tlie following is cdipiiod from an '..iwa pais!r: lem- who met -Lord ( "mden ifomrh 1'jii.ui'ln. last t it a.s Iw'iliK " nigh Zorra." or near Zorra. There are lett^-rs yet in the pohsisBloii of .\is.souri people nddres,.,ed " nigh Z(»rra," lint for near half a century III., lowaship iias Is-eii known as .Mssouri." NOHFOLK COUNTV Is "f lis tow-nsjilps Towiisend takes its name from Gen- eral 'I'ownsliend, who. witli Aoininil .■^'uiinilers, sigiie.. tlie articles ol ca|ilt, ulalioji at l^iieliec in 17.".1(. He be- came Ulght Hon. Thomas •rownshend, l-y of state 1782-8'.). Lord ot w. I iil«;re ■d In hearing iliat to UN. Niagitra is of Indian origin, mean- ing "thundej* of water"; others say It waH the niiiiie of a trite. (Hjvernor SlllllXfo tlit'd tl* MlliinUl.tli! tiu* I'.llg- llsh name .Nevva.rk for .Magara, but the iK'ople preferred t le latter, and , , , tlio name Niagara we i foim.'illy re- iiiiined afU'r the English Norfolk.! i,uitato I by law In ]7!iS. ' '"" Clinton may have Ix en ealled after Si.r Henry Clinton, Couiraantler of Ills MaJ.'sty'i forces Irt. Amerii-a during the War of tlie Revolution. But I'liliaiii and Clinton are IKfth family names of the Duke of NewJastI' , I-i,rl of Lin- coln, of wlioiii th# following is taken froai an artlido U tlie .North British Ueview ; - ^ "From U12 to 1757 the Uelhams wBTC hi power. Hmry lolhaiu was a r ■ ., ,' — ' of iinild rii'l tile Treasury 17lia-18ii(i. to whom many of Governor Jlnldiniand's de- |Spalclie« are adiireesod. o„ I VMiiilhnin, from Right Hon. William m- W'indltam, loionial i-«-ciinarv. w tio.,e money that li.,t King Charles II. and the l)iie|„,ss of I'orUiiioath. who was a menits.r of the shelhurne Government In 178" 111- must not be contoanded witli Ids nephew, the Duke of Hlrliinoud, wlio fought till duel with Prince Freder- ck, and wlioB). wife gave the grand hall at Brussels im the eve uf the hat- tie of Waterloo, celehrated bv Bvroii III Childe Harold : "Thi're was a .-^juiiil of revelry by iilglit, '' And Beigiiia,-M (-apltal there Her Is'aiity .sound of revelry was gathered ind her chivalry," .M'd whose tragic death from liydro- phol.la, III l.sp.), when he wns Gover- "oc-< i-al ol (aiiaila, will iw recall- l-il. The other titles of tills familv. Earl ot .Marcli ami B„roii Methueii, are loiiinjeiiiorated in the mimes of township- la Carleton and Petertioro toniitles. Rlchinomi township Is call.al after the Uuke uf lil.-nmoud, Frtik'rickslui'g, after Prince Tred- erlck. Dake of Viul; |-oiiiniaiider-lii- tldet of the Aiiiiy, s. ,„|i| sun o' King (.eorge HI. '* .\dol|,hustowii, from lYluce Adol- phus. Duke of lamhrldge, seventh son George III. of iiniiiioiis i-orrespoiuieni- iii','i»V,t.v. '.'ovuv: ADDINGTON COU.NTY Was named from Henry Addlngtoii. \is,'ount Shhuouth, wh, was Speak."; of the ||„„„, of ( uminuris from 17811 to iNiil, aaii affrwanls |lhni.eelli,r ot the Uxeluquer and I'l-e- iP.o . '"B'"'"' Macauliy m»vs that j Addlngtoii was iiiilvi-rMillv adinilted the to whom the negotiations wcreihlof- hat- i ly entrust'sl (Messrs. Oswalil and Vau- gliiiii) could bajdly have bo»Mi found it Lonl .Shelburm had ;.-,-:rchcd the country tlinmgli. Destitute of every quality which the skUfnl diplomatist must possess, outgeneralcl h.v their opponents, and anxious npparently iMily tosecure (S'ace atanv prh-e, they graiitca the si'enn t' dlsMsU'r His coiif-agi>iT»'r and infiucnrn." Yonne township Is named after sir I'jicott. nft«r Yonge'M residence Sir Edward Lloyd (Baron Mostvni, wlm was Secretary of War In 1778, m.ir- rled Amelia, daughter of sir Wlia.im Yonge. of Useott. levoa, ElUnlH'tlitown, after I'rineess Eliz- abeth, daiigiitcr of George III. Crosby ]n the name of a place I,, Ungland. Lieut. W. Croshy. HaiMiriii- tendcnt of the arincil sloreship All- iln-w, In 1778, is mentioneil in the Ar- ichlvei-i. , I Elmsley takes Its name from Uhtef .iiiHtli'i' Wlllinm I imsley, who rlleil In llwi.-., a,i,.|| .|o jjjnving a largo fam- t**.n I I'l ,, ^, , , , -- Ntlltu l'i*tl/in,l, Iron, tliu iMike of I'nrt- liiiiil, Colonliil m.ppotar.v 111 170(1, to ivIiDhi :minli of tlie corrcHiiondflme In tlK' Archives »im adclrfSNml. He lyiiN (k-iKx-nclocI from the l)iit(-li AVII- lliiin I'Mitliii'k. iipiiii whom hoiiorH "■".',,.'*''''''" "'*"' L'lmforreil by KtiiR n lllliiiii III, - » Il<;|lf(inl, iirtiT the Knii-llNh ( oiint.v, '»■ the Ijiikt., Iieuil of tlio" urcat hniu*, of Uamiell, of whr.u, Lonl .l„i,n |[,|h. «■", the I'rlmo Mlul«tor, wiia a noted nwniber. Illnohlnbrofjke, from a title cjf the Ijirl of Han, I i,-h, u uienibi'" Uovernnient li> l/tlf. riiore la also Ulnuliliihroict .\unner.v 1 1 HiintlngilonKliire, Knu inii'l. iiiid l.orU .Nclnon conM,uu,l Hlnchlnbnike In 17Si.. , ' I'lreihl from Lord ' Cliin'ndon, iKud of IV no1,le fiimll.v, and brother Ko, from bi'ar," I'alninrNton, after Henry John lenijile, Lord I'alnierHton, • Old I'mn." the Premier In J8:,r. and lH:,i), lonjinn •^ei'rctary un.ler drey and Melbourne. a man who bullied Kun;|H) la the nuwt a|,|>rove,l »,tyle. Horn 17H|, d[^,| \ prominent l.a.ler of the Lib- eral party until hl« death. (ipnouHd the SpanUih word for ,,I,H pi'lipll', MM' 11,' ,lll',l l,'a\l,i(r a privaur na;ne an, I a jaibllc ri'or,! un- miliied nnil iiiiNtalne,!, but lunilnouN with mieh glory nri few r.ionarelm In i\ui Ian, I or ajje have won or merlt- I"' Tin millenary of mieli a man In ,„,,' in honoring wh'eli the human ri,<<' will do lt.«lf high hoiinr. STOlUtONT COUNTS TukeH itH name from Vluoouat Btor- m,>i,t, IrixUleiit of the Council In tlie lorilaiul l.'oalLtlon Uoveruuielit of l78.i. a nophew of William .Murray, Lurxl Maijifi'thl, the gn'at Jurist of tho IWth (^oiiniry, who died In .I70;i, jiiMi who«o pn'iierty was tk-Htroyed in tl,o lHii\tun riots. Jin wu« chief Juh- tlo« till ITWM antl wiM bltU'rly at- ta(;iia,l in tlM! letUtrH of Jui;lmf. A graiKiNoii of tiiat Vli4uount Storn*ont u* the "I'atlM^r of the, lUmm} of Lor.lw." .Sir William IJjivH Murray, tlie l>rl of Man.'^fieUI, who enteirel upon liix nlni'ty-tliii>l ywvr on Feb, •^\, IHttH. Lonl iMjiiiKflolil iH tlio Henlor member of the L'piie,! UouMu of I'arlLnmeiit, both by Hgi* an,! ^length of Men li:e. The iiobi,) lop,l may ilaim. Indeed, now that Mr, Vllllem haf luowed away, to bo "Kntlier of the i>ntln} legl.sla^ j tare.'" Ii„ wa« r»-ltiriUMi to the ll,,uiio of CoDiniouM In tlio iiin'forme In that ehuiuber until hl,s auueeiMlon MKinnii. a »K,'il Hi), Tl,i) town.slilp* i,f Carleton county are : iiHgooUe, after William OKgoode, c;i,lef ,hi»tl,,' of Canada, from ITOa ti IHiii ; eame out witli Uov. Hlnico€!. TraiiHferre,! to Quelicc In ]7ut. ()h goo.le Hall In Toronto In name,! after liliii. " He ,lipd in affbieiit elrcum Htaneen, the result of lauilable prii donee, wlthinit tho Hmnlkwt tnliit of avarice, or llillM>ral pamlmony lilo,,, 'ester, after the Knglish coun- ty, or the Duke of (lloucester, a son- in-law of (Icorgu HI., husband of r. Incest Mary. li. liver, after Mail (lower, member of I'ltt's (ioveriiinnnt In 178:1. NepPan. after Sir !■;, Nepean, Heere- tary f,)r Ireland. IHOl, wliose name apiiearn fienui'ntly In the Archlvi'M. (ioiiltiourn, from Henry (loiilliourn, horn 1781. I n,ier Sei'retary of State f,ir Hume JUpartment In IMO, fur the Colonies la IHIJ ; Chaneeiior of the Kx- clie,|uer ISL'S-.'IO ami 1841-f.-. ; ilieil In 18,'i(J. Henry (ioiiiliourn. as ruder Sec- retary of Htnti, signiiil tlic treaty of I'eaee lietween (ireat Ilritain and the rnlteil Statew at Ghent in IHl I .Marit'orongli, Irom .lohn Cliurei,lll, Duke of Marll oriMigl,. burn lll.'ll, died 171!J, tlie great l-^iiglish general who won tiie battli's of lilenhelm and Ham- lltii,s. and to wliom lilenhelm CuNtic to tlie iie.'ra({o in 1840, ho that lie has j was pn'eented bv the nation. Ho li-ft been a memlx'r of one chamber or | i.a,.riii,i,is wealth, IiIn Income at the tiio other fur an iininu>rrujite,l ]ier- io.1 of Hlity-4'lgiit years. Scone I'al- tie .\Miburton treaty, supiiorteiiCath- ace. "ortlishlre, the spieniHd iionio of one emnm Illation, itar.'ared In favor i tho family, \h lilstorleal as b.l,ig the I „,.., "^.'-*", '*''«'"' "' *''<> Corn place where the kUuw of .Scutlami Lan. In lS4o, lieliK.,| to secure re- 1 we.-e croc n«l. roc ii«i. Tho first Ivarl of Maiisflehl, uncle of Viscount lAturnii.nt, the seeoml l^jirl, marrieil Lady Kllzalioth I'lncli, duiigli- of tlio Kiit\ of WliichilH;a. Viscount Stormont's son, William, tho tlilr»t Eari, marrloii Frederic^i, daughter of Most Kov. William Miirknam, D. 11., /•„,„.„»„ . ^ . t Archbishop of York, ami niother of tho auonto— All a|M Ijdian says tills i present "Fatlier of the Ubuae cf — " '■■"'■"■ WHO ! Loros. i , The towiishlpii of Stormont are cognition of Napoleon 111. and the coalition with Franco against ItuR. sU. Ittilefatlgablo In business, fond Of the pleasures of sociotv and of great culture. .Miller from Hugh Miller, the Reotch geologU-t, author of " old Ited .Sand- stone. wiirf Wif name cu i i'Tencinauu liveil there many years ago. Olilen-Unkuowi'. .Storrlngton, safo to be tnkeii from the place of tlia' name in Fnglanil, where ,sir lIciTy. Smith's motlier lived, ( LEEOif* COUNTY time of Ills ilmth lieliig £70.000 a year, exelasive of what he drew from royal gifts The priwent lioMer of tlii! title married .Miss Consuelo Van ierbllt, daugiiter of a rich "New Yorker, Huntley, after Oeorge, iltii .Mariiuls of Huntiy, ."itli iCarl of Aboyne, .March, from th'< Duke of Klchmond. Karl of March (a title iterived froiif tho March-is in South Wales.) Torboltou. from Tarbolton, a Scofc" tisli burgh In the county of ,\yr. FUiroy, from the family inline o' tlie Duke of Grafton, win. was l"*!*- mier of Great BrltJiln in 1707. Adov Was callp.1 after Francla (imlolphln (is ■ borne, the Duke of Lc'Ih, who was (I.Se-ietary of State for the Home lie- ■ ikirtment, In the SJU'iburno tiovern- ■ meiitlul78a, niKl whoso wife, wn« a bishopric, having bei'ii founil- was i.,! i,y iliarlemaKiie. Tlie last licreill- tary bishop, Frederick, Duke of York, ctMjeil Osiiabrtick to Hanover. Amelia DAreT€.lon«i"^ui.".".;™'.i I ,' Cornwall, after the county In tho i Byroit" fatliJj'lS'^oAi By 'o, •''i^.r T.*"t"'^^' "' '''*"'"*'• '"'"""" '"' ''" IVoet. The pr.«cnt lioUi^r of tlil tftle i ""** T-Bl"«-nej.. was mentioned as a piBslbie 8ucces»or i "•^""' "'"'" Trolawney die? i to Lord Aberdeen as (luvcrnor-Uenerar '^'•'' **'"'" Trelawney die' of Caiuula, but objwtion n\ia raisi-d ' '"'"'" 'ort.v tliouHuiul lornislimen Wlllium. Donr,.,,! Iliirnii Hnirot. , brotiier of Sir (Charles Bagot, Gov Fmoh. after the wife of -the first ;ernor of Canada, married Hou. Einilly Lari Maiuiflcld, aunt of Vlacouiit ^ Fltiroy, daugiiter of Cliarlcs Plti- Storinmit. Iroy, first Lord i^outharapton, Aho OBiiabruok, after a town ami pro- was n brother of Augustus Henry vlnoe !p Uanover, iK'loiiglng to the Fltaroy, ,Srd Duke of (Iratton, who House of Brunswick, where (ieorge wa.s Secretary of State In 17(15 and ist > IS bom. Until 1802 Osimbruck FIrSt Lord of tho Treasury in 1700. ' gill (lis- iliTe faiii- ' because he iii prrprletur of a. tlllery. The foiindor ol this iiol,., .„,„- iiy wim I'iiward Osborne, tlie youne apprentice to Sir William Hewlt, who Jumped from l..<.ni!on Ilridge to Have ; the infant <|iiugiiU>r of his master. i Osborne «ubBe<.uently marrksl the (Uiiighter. ami later ln'came Uird Mayor ami member of J>arllament for tho city. The man who iiiiMto the wealth of the family wiu) Sir Tliouias OHiMirim, who In the courw of his life uttMliiwl the blghest rank In the I'c'rnge. The towiiHliLps are , Leoils. iifK'r the Duke of Leeils Laiimiowne, after the .Maniuis of! I.aiiHikuvne. who. us liirl Mlielburne, ' WIM a I'stliigulslieil man In the last i-'jiitury aiiMtlT»iml Inconipet- i '" feiireHHing tiie Irish rebellion of eiit representntivea of J-ingiish ami I '''''"''• ''"I"' dihbniiilliig of the regl- I'aiiadian Interests than the two nion ""'"' ''"'''"K f' ' I'eaci'nf Amien.s 18UL', to whom the negotiations were i hief- , "8"'" reiluceil tiic iil,'iiKarr.v men ti; As settlement extended neiw coiiii- tioN were formeil to tho north of tluiHo bordering on the St. Lawrence Itlver and Lake Ontario. LANAKK COUNTY, North of Ijce\s, took It« name from I.4inarlu4lLire, In SeotI'Mid. l^ev. Illchard Jones s,iys : " In tiie .vear 1810 the town»ililps nortli of tiie itldeau Lake, known as tlie I'orth Itoxborough, after tlie County of '*'**'"ra™t, we.ni seittled iirUicipally by Koibnrgho, Ui tile south of Scotlaiwl. , ''■^'"""K"'"' Koliiiirs. some of wluim had been with .Mn'rcromblo In Fgvpl, (ILE.vOAlUtY COINTY jwith Wellington and Sir .lohn Moore Takes its iianio from tlie (ilen Uarry i in Spain, " itl, Cornwallls in .\meri- iii Seotlaiid. famous in history. iea. but tlie grcati^r part bad seen .Many Stoltisli lllghlaiiilern. who had serviw In IHii', ivliei, 'ana, la was settled In the -Mohawk Valley, New the battii'fleiil. At a ver.v great es- Vork, on liivitaiiiai of Sir WiilLi-.. ' ln'iiwe, the I'.ritlsh Oovernment trii'd .lohiihon, left tiie rniteil .-^tates dur- 1 to niak»i thi-M' old si^l^icrs anil their Ing tlie revolutionary war, figt. ling ! families as coiufiirtablo as possilile at their way to Caii.iiia ami settling on the cloni' of the war. They eliose the Niagara frontier, on tiie Biiy of tlii'lr liK'ations with,,, it exiwiiH , and each ni.'Ui r. TV, , .. -til, the Surveyor lieni'ral. who f .e a maj) of Tji|)er Canrula In 17U8, was a ineinlier of ti,,- flrirt three Canadian I'nrliaments and Speaker in two of them, Isini 17(14, died :8,S7 ; or Kllas Sinltli, who built a mill at Smith's Creek (I'ort Htipe) In 170.1; or Wil- liam Smith, the great I':nKllsh geolo gist, a friend of Wolljiston and Cavendish, who tormulnt«Ml a theory on fossils and waa called "Strata" Smith. .Methueii, from tho Duke of Rich- mond, Baron of Methuen In the I'ls'rag" of .''cotlunrt. Burleigh, from a high officer of State under Queen Elliabeth. Chando.^, from Ix>rd lirenville, Duke of Buekinghnm and Clmndos. AnNtriitlier, a member of I'arllament who took part In the debate which (Unused the quarrel be(tw... 811- John Harvey, born suppowcd t<; be a imturui son named Diiiiif;,'l,.s, aft,.'r'li,s native 'town ' v T'"' *'!? j}'''"^''" ' In Seotlanil. At .Mr. Dickson',-, reoiiest ^'■'*"' "* '^t. Mneeiit an, I 'Ir-ifmi,; tlie I'ost-ifflce Of this new settle- ,"'',',',' ^" •*» 'I.' """ "B" "' H- A,linlr, iiient was named Gait, aft...r his eariv I """'KW'o™' lcuouj(i part In Lor,l llowfl's victory, June Ist. 1704. nn.l friend ftad schoolmate In Edinburgh." — I'lctiirisiiuo Canada, p. 4«a. in Ictory, June Ist, 1794, .in,! .Jervis' victory off Caiie Vincent In I-a.e In Oxford, England, ami inrl :. ''^'"'*"- . of Burford Is one of the tltlBs of t"ie "«!"' '^'" Duke of St, Albans. 'Mkland, a small township formerlv cnlle,! the Gore of Burford, probably get Its nalfie from the oak trees. nELLINGTON COUNTY ■Took its name from Arthur Wcllcsley, Duke of Wellington, born at Dublin 17()0, died at Wuliuer Ci.8tle, ls.-,L', who s(..rved in Holland (1704), In '778, tjulntti and on the hanks of the St LuwreiK'e, where are now i.lie counties of Glengarry and Suirniont. Ilt^tvveell the years i7^^0 and IVliO. lonsolidu- tioii of tlie siniill farms In the High- _. . . lands of Scotl.ind I'au.seil great dis- 1 •'"ol'liig utensils and blanketK, tresh to till- llsiKi.ssi'Sneil tenants. ly entriisfsl (Messrs. Oswald and Vau- gliaii) eould hajdly have bf.vn found 1 If Lonl Shelliurm had ;.~,-:'>ched the I'OUlitry thniugli. l>«(tltute of every euallty which the skilful ai'e." he wrote, bi one of the h'tters which are now piilillHlitMi fin' the first tiin,. l.onl Shelburne anil his collengues can of course, never tie frenl from the iMs- crisiit which giiiiilng. With iirlly Ih-w for the generinis eiidow- iiieiit 1)1 the Uepuhlic with the gigan- tic hoiiiiiiurloH mi tin south, wi it nii.l north which so Inrgi'ly deti r- lieorm' Vonge, a monilior of the slii I- liiiriie Government, and n-,!:iitl liji fiitiii* in^wr and infincnrr," \tmv township Is iiameil after sir l'j«Mitt. after Yonge's rcsldeii,i> sir IJlwnril Lloyil (Baron Mustviii, \v;i,i was Secri'tary of War In 1778, iii'ir- rleil Amelia, daughter of Sir Wlliiain Voiige. of Fsi'iitt, li'Miii, i;MzalM'tht,i\vii, after Princess alK'th, ,la,igliter of George 111, ( r,isliy It, the name of a pla Fnglaii'l. I,ie,it. W, Crosli.v. Nuisirlii ten, lent of the «rme,l storeshlp All- Iri'w, In 1778, Is mentloiicil In the Ar- ['hlles. Elnisley want, and the Bisliop applied for land In Canada on wlili-li ttuiy might settle. Tremler .\dilliigtoii. Lord .'( ncli Archbishop. " In the aut- umn of KiliS, two Sulpiclans, Messieurs Fenelon an,l Trouve. e.stahlisl,e,l a lalssion at a ViilHge of the i ayugas. on the Bay oT Quiiite. This Mr. l-'eiie- loii has often Ihs'u mistakc'i for ti'e celebrated .\rclihlslioi) of Camlirny. The Canadian missionary's Intiors in (entral Ontario are commemorateil by the recurrence of the, name F*'ii<»-f Ion In the ( ounty of Victoria. (mr Canadian .\bbe was not the .\blM> Fenelon who wrote Teleniaipie and Is'caiiu' Archbishop of Caiuhra.v ; the missionary explorer of our lake shore was the Archhisliop'N eliier brother. They were both sons of Count Felie- lon-Sallgnac, though by illtferent mnrriagiHi.'' A bis- i'Vnelon s'lent parts of 10 110-70 Jliirfonl, ■Rhich formerly belonged ■ i7,,7 „„ „„. , , - to ..xford (■ouiity,_ is the name «? '^ >J3JJL^'"n^l'l 'tr^^tfU! -he first to attack and reak tho enemy's line, and upon the 1 eutli of Nelson, ColUngwood finished tno victory and continued In command of tlie fleet. St. \lncont, the great naval battle In l'B7.— HIr John Jervls, of Meaford, was made linrl of Ut. \ Iment SyiJenham, from Lord Sydenbam, Governor of Canada h, 38.'to-41 (Mr. -- — , , f'oulett Thomson), "Literally wore out did (1707), In I'ortugal (1808), and '"'» 'eoble life In the service of tho Can- " defeated Napoleon at the great Bat- "•"an lieople,"— McMullen. tie of Waterloo, Jnue istli, Isi.-J. |(e Derby, Enrl, I'remler In 1852 and in biibseiinently hold Important pr li- IS.IS. tioiis In the British Government, anil '• Sarawak township Is called after tlw was lieinler In 1828. ' Inilois'ndent state Sarawak In the Tlie townshiim In Wellington County '"'"'"' of Borneo, Inhablti'd by .Malaya are and Dyuks. In 1841 the Sultan of Bor- •usIliK-li, from tiie place where ,"™ •'•''•led a portion of the tt^rrltory, (iovernor Colborne got his wife "Lord ''"'""""g the town of Sarawak, to Sir S<'iitoii married In 1S14 tlio eldest ;""'<« Brooke, a friend of Captain (al- daughter of James Yoiige, lOsn , of ter"'""' Aitmlral) Sir Henry Kep- J'lisJimli, Devon."— Morgan's Cclcbrat- !*'• **" °' ^^^ ^^'^ "' Albermarle, and ed Canadians. ; brother of Viscount Bury, who was Erin is the iwetlcal name tor irc- I."'**''"'"'*""'''"' »f Jt'iHuii Affairs In Innil. m an Imis^rlal statute, the ! ,,'^'"^^"•,,1''"' s**'/?, "' "The Expedl- Inion Act of l»io. It Is sixlh-d UlT H' ^J'^i° "' 'I"'' -Ma esty's Ship "Ering," ''"'"-"iDldo, for the 8uppr,:ssiou of IMraeyj Guoliih is tho naiie of the Hoyal i.VjJJJj.^'Jf^Yo"-"''™ '^'"^ Journai'o^ House of Brunswick Jir. John Gilt, '-ei-retary of the Canada Laiul (Juni- piiny, wrote an account of the naming of the city of (iiielph : "The name was chosen In compliment to the lioyul Family, both because I thought It niisi'.UIous In Itself, and because I could not recollect that It had ever lieen before used In all the King's do- minions,' Niciioi, after tlie gallant Colonel Nichol, who won a gohl medal for con- duct at t*io capture of Detroit under Brook, and wo was killed In 1821 by .Irliing over a cliff near Queenston uw and Captain Sir Edward Belcher, on the same subject. Kepiiel. from the Captain Henry Keppel just mentioned, who, after assisting Brooke at Borneo, com- mandod a ■'»• :"'"' attained the rank of full admiral ernment Governor of Bengal, or his , in laou. He wrote " A Visit to the son ,llbe-'„ First Ltjtd of the Ad- Indlac Archliwlago In H. M. S. Maean- .niraity in Lord Aberdeen s Oovoru- iter." 2 vols., an.l wits made D 1.. "*'"■ , ! of Oxford m lS7i). Luther, from Martin Luther, lead- ' Sullivan, from Uoliert Baldwin Snlll- I'rotcstant Uoformatlon in van, of Toronto, a meinlier of the er of the Gormany. l'e' the ill-Jiidgi'd self-t It come fruni what it, will. It is a fine toiviisl filled with gixjd iK-ople, I'lP a, la. The Bisliop ralsi!,! the Glell- of I l-s Incoilijs-tent sui'ci'ssor. the lliiki garrv Feiiclbles ri'glmont for the wari"' I'lchmonil," Tiie iiealth of Cov- of 181'J, ami for tills and other ser- ' '"■'""■ •sberbrisike was so pisir that vices Earl llathurst granted lum a I '"' "'oulil not remain long In Caiiada snlarv of i.(iOO, and mnile liini the first i „""*'"""''t, from Henry, second Enrl illoiesaii Catholic Bishop in the Brit- : ""thurst, son of Baron Ari- ey, born isli ilouilnlons since the Reformation, '."'''-' ''I<'i' IS-ll, Was l.i:,-d Coniuils- Iii 1H:1!I lllsliop McDonnell wi nt to i J'"'"','' oj the A.lmlralt.v, lommlasioner r.iighiad will, his friend Dr. Uoli>li,of ["'■'"'"'*• Fon'iga .Secretary. Colon- AncasUT. to arrange for the emiRra- i "V • ecn'tnry, Presl.lent of the Conn tl',11 of nirire lllghlamlers to Cana mlnmili- Kenyoii Chh'f Justice of ',,:;r.';:^?,,.*!l^,::!!:!r,':,V:.'f '?.,',T'^ ''"'"'•' the King's Bcmli, with the j title of Lord Kenyon, Baron of ! (Ireillngton. He was di.slikeil by the .•,.,. , „ , Ibnr for his overlieailiig disiiositloii t,.-.i,., iviM, ''.^" ';"""' f/"'" 'lilef U,„. Insolent manners, but favored bv till- „ '.'"r.l" ,''"?'"-»• who died III I ,„d,||c on account of the rigid 'iii- iwi.i, anvil .12. Ifjav.ng a large fam- ' ,>„, !„i|t" of his derision: ■ icil and First l.,ir,l of tlM> Admlraltv. He marrijMl n daiighti'r ,if the Ihike'"' Newcastle wl |,ir lili-hmoml. The Achlves I'ontiiln ! I''-" ' Wlieii niilt. iiiiich correspon, leace with Lor, I Hath- ' iirst. « lii«' naiiif' was given to a I District in (ana, la, afterward aboi- isheil by .Vet of Parliament. Ramsay, from GeiiernI George Mam- say, Earl of Dalhousie, born l'f7(), did )a;i8. Iialluuisle, from the Fjirl of Dnlhousie, (Iovernor of Nova Scotia, founder of Dalhousie CoMi'g... Halifax, who on tlie deiith of tl-.*- Duke .'f Kii-iiniiaui was appolnteil by I.oril Batlmrst Governor- General of Cami'la, He could not leave Nova Scotia Imnieillate'y. and Sir Peri'- grille Maltland iwrfornu'd ilie ilullis until Dnihousle's arrival in IM20, Mr. (bristle, the historian, snvs "tliei'e w/is Eilz- '{a maiilli,, call, lor ami inti-grity in Dalton, after Dr, .Toliii Dnlton. of Manchesti'r. who illeil In 1844, He wiiK a note, I scientist, aihl discovered (he atomic theory, that " matter con- sist- of ultimate partlcli>s or atoms llicnpnble of divlsluii." D,'ilti,.i Invi-s- tlgatcl the expansion of gasi>s. evap- oration and the elasticity of steam Eldoii, from .lohn Scott, l.onl 1-:1 Ion, the famous Lor«l clKini'ellor of Eng- land. He w'rts the s.iii of John ,Scott, he was horn in -- ., oiitli he eloi>eil with a.i,' married Bwisy Surtecs. and for a long tiai" tl..- yniiiig couple were very piMir lie ei, tired Parliament In 17S.';. and Iscani" a favorite of Lonli Thiirlow. who nin,le l.iin Attorney- General In 17o:i., In 17!i0. as Banui Eld. Ml. he wwK mail. Chief Justice of I tlic Coiiiiiioii PI, 'as. In 181,1 hi'lieeamc! I."r,' chaiii'clhir. .'111,1 with the exec'i- tlon of one .vear he hehl the sea'ls fr,,,,, iHiii to 182'!. He v.-ai a gr^^nt'- Tory ; opposed Cathollo Emancipation I Parliamentary Ueform, the Aholithm l( of Slavery. Free 'I'rade. pop ibir Eilu ealioti ami tolernthin of nl! ,'.lnde Si opposi'il was Kl'lon to cl.cn^" tli'.i "(he ilisappearan 'c of ho ,|w from '.be WATERLOO COUNTY, Whicli formerly ext*'niled from llnl- ton to tho Georgian Bay, and Included name of 1 rench-, Wellington, Duffi rin and Grey, gets its name from the battle that Wel- lington and Napoleon fought la 1815. Itti townships are Welle.'-ley, after ."Nir Artimr Wclli'S- ley, Duke of Wellington. Woolwich, the niiiiie of the arsenal town ill Kent, England, where Henry VIII. established a dix^kynrd. W'ilniot, from Mr. Wilniot. Private iSfcretary to Lord Liverpool in 1810; or from a Mr. Wllaiot, who was eia- plojed as a surveyor by the Govern- ment of Canada In 1810. North Dumfries, from the County of Humfries. In .Scotland. Waterloo. aft<'r the battle DUFFE N COUNTY Is namivl aft«'T .-^Ir Fn-ik-rlck Temple Hamilton-Templc-BlacliwiMkl, Mar,ul« of i)uff,>rin ami VlHcount clamleboye, who was (liivernor-Geiieral of Caniula j 1872-78; \iiiiiaiis.i4lor to Russia, Tur- key aiKi I-rance; Governor-Ucneral of Imlia, etc. The towiiKhips of Dufferln an-. an astringent iiiiaiity, formerly in it'pute for dtaenaes of the eves. Proton, Greek. " the first"— neuter ndjcetlve. Normanby. from the Maripils of Nor- ma nby, Home Secretary In 1835. Egremoiit. from the Earl of Egre- moat. a mcinlicr of the Oronville Oot- ernmcnt. LAMBTON COU.NTY Takes !t« name from the Earl of Dnr- hiiia, .lohn George Lambton. whose family has hecu prominent In Durham county. England, tor many ceiiturieB, and to wliom the legend of the "Lamb- ton Worm" nttacliee. He was Gov- ernor-General of Canada 18;!8-40 ; a Uadical in iiolltlcs ; uiaiie the famooa report, sometimes credited to his Sc-cretary Builer. which resulted In the union of the two Canadas and the establlshmont of the municipal system. Among the townships of Lambton are: Bosaimuet, callc.l nfter Charles Bosauiiuet, M. P., first Chairman of the Canada Company. Sombra, .Spanish for shade. .Moon', after Sir Joiiii Moore, under whom Governor Colborne served at Coriiniia. Sloore's ('ylng wish wa« that CollKirno be promoted.— Mla« LIzars. " Not a drinu wan liear,l, nor a funeral note." Enniskilien, from tl,,- (own In Ire- ami where the I'roUstants won a battle In 1(180. A son of the Earl of l-Uiiiisklilen was a «)liiicr, who fought at Sula- nianca and Vlttoria. aim was piob- alilj a coniiadc la anus of Sir John t ulhornc or Sir Pei-egriae Maltland. \\iu'w.ck. f;-,,ai 111. Uiig.lsli ,'o'j:ity o Warwick. Bnsikc, fi-oiu Sir James B.-ooke, Ha- jah of Svirawak. Plymiitoii, an Enghsh town. Sarnla, the Roman name of Isle idiiernsi'y. where Sir John Colborne was Governor. Is-fiire he came to ( anada. T'lp tra.iitioa Is that In 1835 Sir John CollKirae, then Governor Uslted ■' Mono, whU-h is tho Simnlsh" wor^liiU";-";!:,/;,""""',"'!"" ,""'?^,*''?.K'»P- f'r III I a,,-:- , , . '"'- '^'iiu .1,111 niitl, lf-28, when he was n|i|,i- iiti'il I ,,'-'i ','" '""■''''^•r "' her Iiiiiik-o Comuianilpr-ln-Chiif of the fon-cs in ! '^ """''"' '•"'"« '"'e.inn' her enemy. liiilhi A rcllnc. l';iiloii wns her trlen.l Uer Iconflili'litlal ailvlsi'r- the depositary of licr ,s,'cret sorrows .111,1 th,,, wi,rin do- iconce, . . the line man was not only acccssiirv to her prosecution, hut never neems to have bail one spark of regret one ' •omiiiinctloug sorrow, 'that his eformer, ".-^.-liwarz Bnk'." laithor (Martin), .Vniar.'iiitli. a flower of the cox- comb variety, that iloea not fade or wither ^viien phioktHl. Miilmiir. unknown. j I'ERTir COUNTY ; Is naimyl 11-0111 li'rth-hire In Seotland. Il« si'tllc'iient and that of the aii- ! J.iccnt i-oiint.v ,if Huron was con- j trollivl by the Canada Land Cnnipany, of whii'li .Mt'M,illi>|, says: "The sum-: niiy |,>r 1.8241 wi.M «llsti,igiiisheii by | the foniKitioii, .laih'r an Imperial cha.rter, ,>f the Canail.'i l.ami Com- eatahilMliIng a for the protection of Canada. he uaa feaiiteil right royally liy the I'-arnia ceh'lirities of the ,lav among wlmin we,-,' G,.,,. Diiriin,!, Caiit. viilai. John Joiii'.s, Ciipt. Elliott, 8. Proi'tor, ei»'. 'I'liat an e-vciirsi,in (the fust on record 111 l.,amhtoii) wa« planneii foi- ,1 trip up the rapils into l..ake Huron : that Just as the boat g|>u rightly into the lake a stiff Oreeze Ironi the Maniti'iiliiis sprung "P, la, hieing His Kxcelli-ncy to give th< captain onlcrs tu " Imut ship" nan g.-t into the Si, Clair again. The story ginw that a (">ntcntlon was raging alKxit this lim,' niuuigst the Snrnians alsiiit that the village > rniiiK JU-lli igh the Hultllur, tin T, the Hi'linlur, tin* colirtlor, tltf 'i-iitur, tlH* iiut't, till' liiHturiaii, tin jphiluNuphi!!', whiiiu wi- plL'tupt* tn (Mir nclvcB, HuiiiPtiiiiHH rnvleniiiK tin • ^iieeii'H guard, N{>in)-ttiar till' cuuntry party ia tlu UiMiHf (if CoiainoiiN, then again aiiir- iiiuring (Hlo of liis Mwcct luvi'-rtoag.^ tnc near tlio t'aps of Her lligliiit'SH' aialtl* of honor, ainl wiioa afte** poring over tlie Talrjuii, or collating I'olybiua wllli Livy." iirfnnl, from a tcwn in Suffolk. ]->nglanJ, with ;i large imeieat cliuieli, nnil flia' ivmalnn of a -N'or- luau citHtle. .sip lt(»lx;rt \\'alpole wu^■ the lirst lOurl of Orfoni. ' Howuril, lifter tile i;arl of K/fing haul, >vluwe linught^'r, I^aily Mar.v llov.-arii, «aN niarrleil to Sir Guy cnpleton, (iovernori-Uoneral of Cun- aiia., at the time tlie^e towiislilpfi were H.urveyeil and • ^ .led. I'amihyi i\Vc:it) In Kent, niul Cam- ilcii (KaHti la Addliigt1«'.V, Su*«x, born 1714, died 37114, t hiof JuHtlce of the roaiiuon pleas. Lord I'Imiiwdlor in i'liathani'H tinverainent il7fl(li, and rreHidiMit of the I'oiuicil uiuler the youngt-r l*itt tiir nine years. Ho opposed the taxa- tion ot America. Macuulay uay.s Lord ramdeir.s "iiitegrlt.v, ability and eolla- the pnbiie respect.' Tlie following Is cllpi>cd from an Ottawa paper : ■Those wlio met Lord C«mden on \'. -i Vi'i.v tbrniifth i*>otuiiln. last sniu- nier will lie iiit4ireNted in hearing. tl>at \:m engain-ment lias Just been an- nounced til .Mi»-i Joan NevlII, a daugh- terof Lord Ileriry .Nevlll and grau I- ,liiught<'r of the .Mju-iiul.'j of -Mier- g.iveiiny. Itut \vhat will apiieiil more to ottawans K timt Sllss Nevlll la a jiicce cl the two Ijiptaiii Stri'at- fields. who were, each In hla time, durtiuctly popular here." I'liatliam, from t'hatiium, a Tarila- niontary borough and mival ur>caal of Kngland, on the right bank of the Medway, near its confluenon witli the Thnraes, :»> miles from London. The dockyard i.s a mile long. In t(lii7 the Dutch imdcr De Ituyti^r sailed up to l hatliam, destroyed tin till t,( in .Mid, .lea II i till' Cl MsHDiiri, probably Indian, akin to MlHwourl, whleli meaiiN mud river The Linbpo Cotirlcr In reNpoimlble fop the following : " We venture to Hny thi'ii aiiMwerlin-l "'"' Ihere are few people who kiuiw liKW the towiiNhip of .NlNHiiuri got itH luinie, .\n old mnn. whiMe people now live in the fiiMlern part of Ontario and who In ihe very early history of .VlHKouri lived la tlin northern part of that township, gave the writer n history of how the towiiHliip was nanu'd. which Neeuied reaKonable, mid is liki'ly true. IjiMig ago, when thi.. county and othi • ailjulning were known a» the '■ lilMtrict of Brock," Scoteli settlePH named a sec- tion (known now as Wiwt an I Fast Zorra) after the blrtli|ilaee of >iauiaoii. Home 'Yankees Nettled in the west, and ill speaking of the section of the county la which they liveil, iiescrlbcd It as iK'liiK " nigh Zopri ," op neap Zorra. There are letters et in the posMcssloii of N'issoiirl people' addresm-d " nigh Zorra," but for near half a century the township lias lieun known us Nlssourl." NOUrOLK COUNTY Is named after the English .Norfolk.! liwtati of ius townships t'lliit' !ll»l>lt til. .\ll- caster township got its name. Ily the sixth section of tlie Coiisti- tiitional .Vet n7bl i proiisioa vvai^ made for the cpeatlo.i of a liereilltary iiutiility In Canada, with the liere.il- tapy right of Isdng s, miiioaed i.o tliu Legi'tlative I'oiinell. Happily ttiH iTu- tliority was not exepclsed ; othepwlse, as lioliept lioupiay pemarked, " we should have seen, perliups, the Duke of Ontario loadiitg in a cart of iia,v, iiiy Lord lirie iiltchliig, and Sir I'eti-r Superior making '.lie rick ; or iieriiaps Ills Ornce might now liaie lieeii countlifii figuring as a pettyfoitging lawyer, his Lordsiiiii a« n pu .lac, and Sir Knight tm ti iHKir imrsoii, starving on .'i.uoi)' aeri?** of clergy reserves." We were spared the spectack' of such alisardlties, and life lueinticPK of the Legislative CiMiiicll were the neurest apprisich ti a nulilllty vouchsafed t tried tii «uli«tit.it4' tiie Lug- j llMlt name Newn.rk for .Mngarii, but ! the people preferred t.it.' latter, and the name Niagara wii-i formally re- 1 I liy law lu 17!i1. ( ton may liaTB Isen called aft»T Towiisend takos Its name from lien- j , sir Heaiy Cliuton, Couimamler of His eriil Townshend, who, with Ai.niiral. Majesty's forces Irt. America during the Saunders, sigiie.i the articles of eaiuvl \v„j. of the Kevolutlon. But rediani ulatioii at yuelx.v in 17.j',). Ho be- 1 and Clinton are birth family naiiieH of 'XLnarknow'illlJ' commanded I v""^"'^ '^"'""i'"'* T"""-"""'. ! the buki of'NcwMWtle, liTiri" oV Llii- ^ '■>•■ ,',""• <'''l'l> Hi' I2in?et'^ '''''"''■''■ "' '*^"-^" 17a--Si*. i.ord of i coin, of whom th# followliiB- In taken i ""t- -Jeremlii IlliM-ii I.S named after .Major-iu'ii- erai Sir Isaac li/ K'k, who fell in :ll« same war at uienslon Heights. Sir Isaac llrock's ■'Life" has ln'iui wpltten liy .Mr. 1). ll. Read, of To- ronto, and the story forms p.irt of every history of Canada The .\ndiives siiow that Sir Isaacs bro- tllep William iironiptly apiilcd to Lord Ihitliurst. of the Ilrltlsli (iov- eniinent, a.skliig "tiiat he would grant some of tlie wiwte lands in Cpiicr I aiiada In the family of the late iMiijor-deiicral IlriN-k, to keep the name alive in the I'rovlnee." A pension of tilllii a ye.ir was granti'd to cucdi of Sir Isaac's four brothers. The name ot llrock\l 1' wius given to i'.Mzaliethtovvn (or SnarlingU'ii, as some called Iti iiu honor of .'-Ir Isaac Uroi'k, and a district which included the itiresi'iiit C' .unty of /cu.,| rop many years ih.re the name of the Urcx'k illstrict. 'riioraii Is a Ihdirt'w word, mean- ing the I'entateucli, the revealed will of (iod. .Uara and Kama mean bitter. ".Vail wliea they eame to Marfth, they could not drink of the waters of .Mmrah, for they were bitter; therefore tlii^ niiiiie of II was called .■Vlaruli."— llxislus xv. 'J.'l. "Thus saith the ljieiit. llougliton, a the ; bvout, who madtr foMpiciit rejiopts to ' tiov. Haldlniand duping the lievolu- tioiiapy w.ir. lid carried off a ship of war, Riivai ( liarlcs On Seiitember 2l)tli, 179;!, tiover- nor Slmuco wrote to Secretary Dun- [ Mlddleton, from a town In Laii- lua propcBLng_ London i-s^the scat of i j,m,i,||;^^ Kngland. In n lilcli there are " " " ' silk and cotton manufactures. Also. Oovernment for Upp(!r Canada, and stating that ho hud marked out a i [dace to be called Oxford (WoodBtiK'k), likely to become -i town, and i.iiother likely to bpcunie the capital of the Lower District, called Ciiatham. (Arehivf*! of ISal). The Hituatious of these three point; on the CaiiailLaa Thanics. correspond- ing to Oxford, London, and Chatham on the Thaeies la Kngland. suggests .Siincoe'8 motiv"! In selecting those iiameR. William lltt was I'remler In 1791!, and the fact that hn wiiM the son of ■William 1 itt, first Earl of Cliatl;ain, may have had something to do with the clio'ice of this name by .Slmcoe for the ti/wii and township. The story of William ritt, the great Com- moner, born 1708, died 1778, from the time he ent red I'arllament as a young cornet of horsi! and replied to Sir Kohert Walpole'M charge of youth and lnei[)erlence In the Kpoecli begin- ning with " The atrocious crime of being a vonng man," until the t'me when, as Karl of Ciintliaiu, be left Ills sick bed to protest against the employment of Indians in the war against Aiuerlc.!, .saylnc; '■My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present I cannot sav more, but I 'Oiild not have said less; if I wen- an American, as I am an Kiiglisliuian, while a foreign troop was lamird lu my country, 1 never wouhl lay down my arms, never, neve-, never!" is famli'i^ir to every student of rnglbli history, as Is Mncaulays saying that " I'ltt wa.sno rnilj debater like Waliwle, no speak- et of set speeches like Clii>sterlield. His set siieprhes were always his rut's a town ill Ireland. Also. Mlddleton .MilK'y, Ilorsetshlrc. founded lll.m. Wix)diiou.se, origin iinknowii. I'ossl- biy a coppuiition of family iiam*-' of the 1] Wodidiotise. the ipl of Kimb Ply. IIALDI.MANI) COINTV Was named aft<'P Sip Krederlek llaldimajid, a native of Switzerland, Maior-iJc'iieral in the British .\rmy, who held Important eomniands at I'hlladelphla and -Vlbaii.v l^fore the Itevolutioa, and was iippoiiiti?d Cov- criior-<;nicral of Canada in 1777, succeeding Sir liny Car; 'ton. He was the author uf what is known a.s the Haldlniand Cnlle<'tion of Let- ters iiiid l*ai)ers, relating to Cana- dian affairs between 17."i."i and 171)11. wliiidi forms [lart of tlie Canadian .Vre'illvcs at Ottawa. He granted lands on both sides of the Crraiul Ulver to the Mohawk lro*niol.s. who h;iil fought against the .\merlcaiis In the war and <'irrang(?d for the .settlement In I'pper Canada of the U. Ij. J.,o.vaiists. .\ township In Northumberland County is also namcii after Sir Krederlek Haldi- maiid. The townships of Haldlniand are : Ca^"Uga, Oneida and Seneca, after the townshi|is of high office ill this country, yet by perfidy, by Intrigue, by parliamentary eorruiitloii he contrived to remain Minister for nearly ;iO years, and Knuiiier for nearly ten." The townshiiJH of the present North Wentworth have Yorkshire iianKS, the county of York originally ( feet above tlie '"a. There fs a lightlioii.sf\ and Flamih.rough vil- lage staiiils near the c< litre of the promontory. From llurlliigtoM C(-acli to Btoblcoke township, in the present County (,f York, tlier*^ was an Indian ri • ve of HO.fXKl acrrw, which was purci 'd by the Crown in 1805 for tl.TOi n the recoaimemlatioa of Ooveriior i e, HO that n»a'l« eoitlil bo laid out : iii ! Tomato to Duiulas and Niagara, .k*! coiintif^ of Halton and IVsd arc iii- elmled 111 this tract of .Mlsslsauga land. One of the tltle« of the Duke of De- voiishlriv is Ear! of Burlington. ; ii.\ltoncoi:nty Is named after William Halton, who was secretary to (ioveriior Tiore. As laU- as 1S40, by the rnioii Act Hal- ton was divide.! Into two rld.lng .. the East niding (onslstlnc of the ^own- '.shl|>!, of Trafalgar, Nelson. Es.iu sine, Nassagaweya, I-^ist and West Flaiu- • borough, " Ering" and Beverley, the I west riding . imslstlui; of llaralraxn, Nlchol, Woolwich, (iiielph, Waterloo, ; Wilraot, Dumfries, ruslliieli, F.rainusa, '. each riding to elect one niemiier. .\s now constituted Halton contains WUMf.VM. '.■Oii.'.v'OV Is called after the lingiish County, froiu which the Earl of Durhnin tnkei his title. Its townships are: Darlington, from a Parliamentary Takes Its n.iiiie fpoiu Clijirles Len- nox, Hake' (if Kiclimoad. a descendant ill King Charles II. and the Duciiess of i'(u'lsni(Hitli, who was a menilK'r of the Sheliuirm (!overniuent In 17si' He must not, i„ ,,mfounde(l witli Ids mpheiv, the Dike of Itlclimond, who fought till dull with I'rinoe Freder- ick, and whose wife gave the granu ball at Brussels on the eve of the bat- tle of Wiiterl(x), celebraUul by Bvron in Cliilde Ilapold: "Thepe was a sound of revelpy by night. And lU'lgiiiias capital was gathered tliepe. Her Is'aiity and hep chivalry," And whosi.' tragic death from liydpo- lihobla, in IMii, wlieii he was (iovep- nor-Oiuiei-al of Canada, will Im) recall- ed- Till iithcp titles of this family, l.arl of .Marcii and Baron Methueii, titr coiamemorated In the names .if towiishl|>s 111 Carleton and llterboro loiiiitles. I!i(liiiion,i townshiii is called after tlH' Duke of llichmond. Fredericksburg, after Prince Fred- erick, Duke of York, Comiuander-ln- llllef of *Jie .\iiiiy, S(!coiid .son of King lleorge HI. .VdolphiiHtown, from IVliice Adol- phe.., Duke of lambridgc, seventh >on of tieorge III. ADDIXin'OX COUNTY Was named fr. ai Henry A.ldlngtoa, \i.sc(Hint Sldiuoiith, win was .Speaker of the Hou.so of ( oiuiiions from 17811 to 18(11, and afterwards Chancellor of the Excu-'ipier and Ppe- mter of Knelnud. Maeaulay i-ays that Addlngton was unlvepsallv adiiltted vu s»tt.\. •utit.n itii-i ii»-,s„ ,>,i.'aikti tmii had Nate hi that chair since Ihe re- tirement of Onslow. But nature had not liestuwed on him very vigorous faculties. He was a favorite with till borough of Durham, i:iiglaiid, coil- ! the King, w hom he resembled In nar- talning a (lotlde (diiindi founded In 1100. The town i.s governed i>y a bailiff .iiipointed b.v the Bishop of Durham. Clarke, after M'.Jor-!ienoral Alurcd Clarke, who was Lieutenant-ilover- nor 111 1 '■;, and who apiiears, from the corn .^pondcnce in the .\rclilves wltli Duiidas, Simcoo and others, to have lie(^i a careful and capable business man ; Sir .-Vlured Clarke was iKirii about \74'< : served In (icrmniiy under I or.'i Oranby in 17.-,i> ; accompanied Howe to New York; I/leuteniint^Hovernor of .lamalcn 178L'-m) ; in 1711.-. sent with r(diifore«"ments to India ; U-- caiae Conimander-lii-riilef in India and died la 1^:1-', aK»'d S7. IIo|)e. nft«'r Colonel Hop", n eiem- luT (if the Legislative Council, wiio acted as Oovernor In 17S0, while aw-nltlng the arrival of I-ord Dor- chester. The WH-ond row of townships rownps.1 of mind, and t n'. - place In England. Lieut, V • r-: "(iiiierln- tendent of the ar o store ip An- Irew, In 1778, Is mentioned Ui the Ar- chives. , Elinsley takes Its name from Chief lustieo William Ilmsley, who riled in IHO.-i, nm-d 4a lijaving a large fam- lU- nil... <^|,, „, „,T,l.j,|„ .,»,U^T^ tions froiv. .lo wi n, . , for „ grant of land r also, that tha Oc,... ernment shall buy hhi resldenoes ■„ (Jnidiee, York aivl Niuyark for mill, tary or other iiubllc purposes. Kltley may f>e called from a chak. acter called Kltely In Den Johnson'', play, " Every Man In His Humor.*' There Is also a Kltley township li, Siimnier Count.v, Kansas. Bastard, origin unknown. There Is " Bnstad," a town In Sweden, on the Catt<'gat, and " Bastar." a state In India, peopled by wild hill ninn, who pay tribute to the British. Also called Riistar. this country was settled by Irish ■ Act of 17i)l, moved, while Burke was Immigrants, who brought the names I s-|«'akliig, that the pris'eiMllngs were of I . , . -. trdjes of Ihe Six Nations Indians. I'unii. from Hon. Thomas Dunn, a menili'T of the l-^xeculive Council of Ciunida, who was Administrator cf the (ioveriui .'lit after Sir Kotit-rt .siiore Miliiex went hack to Eripl:ind li If-O:! Kaltiimm, from a village in No.fi 'k, Kngland, near Houghton Esiiueslng, an Indian name, Nassagaweya, Indian. Trafalgar, from the great lattle lu which Lord Nelson In life. .Nelson, Troin noratlo Nelson, 'ci.iiint .Nelson and Duke of Bioiit Vis- wiio worst. But passionate as was ,„,ii, eloipience, It was the eloipience of a jyj(j statesman, not of a rhitorlclan." "Chatham sli^'ps near the nnrtliern heia, under Sir .Tohii ,li-vis, In Driimmoiid us (ioverror of Canada In 17!)7; the liattlu of the Nile ii. 17iis ; ■ the liattle of ropenliagcn in ISOI ; Canhorn, from Benjamin Canby, who fell in the battle of Trafalgar, Oct. prcK'ured I'.i.OilO acres of I ind in the - "Ht. 1805. "England exiiects every Do'kstader. on a promise to pay t.'i.O'iO to maintain the Indian's c' Idren. M'HiIton, the family seat of the ISoiil- toiis, in Lincolnshire, England. Henry .1. Boulton. Attorney-Oencrnl cf Upper Canada, got .'?O,8U0 acres of Indian Afanvers, after a county of Ireland and ('avail, a county of IwHaiid. Cartwrlght township was called ,ift<'r the Hon. lilchard Cart- wright, menilsir of the l-;xecutlve Council, grandfather of Sir lileliard ' Cartwrlght, the present .Minister of ! Trade and Commerce. In 17;i'l, Mr. Cartwrlght estimate 1 that only one- tvventietli of the iiopulalhin of Cn- pe." Canaili ludonged to the chiiri'h of Kngland. and though n devout niemllor of that Ch "'b lilics"lf. he 't.'ongl.v protested ai::alnsv. glvlnu: It the same exclusive privileges It en- joyed In r.rltaln. He advicuted al- lowing mlnls-ters of all eliiir-lies to I'frform the niarriai» Cviemonv. but that rii,'lit w.'is not crnnted till 1S:il. NOItTHIMi'.r.KLAND COl'NTY, Callcl after the T:nKll.sh I'ouiity of tic Mime name, for a long time included ^ tiie pre.sent county of Pcterbor'iiigU. i which was descrll^'d in the liiion '.et oT 1810 as tliP Niirth Hiding of Northiiinlierlan.l. Its towiisliliis ape . Mupra.v, after sir .lames Murray. Oovernor of ijiiebcc from 17d''l to 1707. Cramahe, a Svyiss Secretary to • lov. ^lurray, and Miii-elf admlulstra- toT of tla? fiover iftcr Sip (liiy Cnrlet(Mrs depnrl I'ngiand In 1770. Ilnldimand. Covcriior 177S-17S."i, a lid Hamilton, l.leiit^'nant - Onvcrnor il7H."ii between Haldimand aiul Lord Iioichestei. Bj-lghton, called on account of the I not In onk'r. Mr. Anstruther also ended Burke to order. Fox felt bound to support Slie.''lelirs motion, which Burke resented, ind the were never again frlead.s Lord Sheffield's mo- tion was withdrawn. Keniieliec, from In Maine. count.v and river man to do his duty." There Is a preitty romance which gives "Nelson's memor.v a sentimental interest in Cana '". During his ser- vice at (juehec in 17H2, when he was hut t.'l years of age, he b,icamo In- fatuated vVltli ri beautiful Canadian i longi bencii extending Into Lake On- Kaladar, Irish. Denbigh, from a county In Wales. i:ffliighaui, from Lord Howard, Earl of i:ffinghani. wlio.se daughter married Sir liuy Carleton. Ablnger. from Sir .Tames .«lcarlett„ Baron Ablii^ir, who was Attorney- Oeiieral In the British Oovernment In 18'..'7, BarrU', from Cnptnlii Bnrrie, who burned two French storeshlps In ISU. Captain Barrl" comnmnded the St. lawrence, Albion and Dragon, which chased Captain Barney up tli llivep Patuxent iK-fore the of Washington City in 1H14. "Barrie takes Its name from Com- moiliire Barrie, who eommaicled a r.ritish naval Kquadrou at Klngstoc during the wnr of 1S12-l."i." Th ■ name Is also applied to the village of '(arriefiidd. near Kings-ton, an 1 to the town of Barrie In Him.«e ( ounty. Anglesey, f.rom th- Island and county In North Wales, where there are mines of copper and lead. Henry Wllliain I'.'iget, Earl of Hx- liridge. who lost his leg at tile bat- tle of Waterloo, was the first Mar- quis of Anglesey. i.Vshby. from Ashby de la Zouolie, a market town of lielcestershlre. KnglMiid. which has a ruined casfe In which Mar.v (imx'n of Scots w s once confined, and a church which (iUENVILLE COUNTY Was ciiMe.l after Lord (Irenvllie, whin* sister Hester married tlie older Pitt, I remler in 170.'l, and who was Inrgi.'ly res|io Act was pasHMl through both Houses with less opposition than a turnpike hill. At tills critical moment Pitt was absent from the House of Commons, ill." " It was wlttliy said, at a later day, that Mr. Creiivllle lost .Vmerlca because he read the A-'ierlcan de- spatches, wliic'i none of his predeces- sors ever did." — (ireon. Or from (icorgo (.irenvllie, a cousin of Wllliain I'ltt, Jan., Lord Lieutenant of Ireland In 17S;.'-87, crtuited Mar- i|uLs of Buckingham, a man of honor and ablllt.v, whoso titles are found In Buckingham town, lu Ottawa Coun- ty, tiuebec, and Chandos townsld]), in Peterborough ('ounty, Ontario. Lord vJpenvllle once saiij in the Brit- ish House of Lords, a body to whicli tlie Caniidian Ijenati! has sometimes iMS'ii comiiared, " M.v Lords, .vou pos- Ne»i the power, a great power, for gtxiil. But lliore U a powi-r whiicii you do not jiossess— any moio than t:ie House of t'oinnions, aii.v luoreli that tile constitutional sovereigns of i this country— you iiave not the ' ilitiire i I'owep to treat with cont^'iiiiit tiie: Inatlonai will when it is iegitiniately ■ .-ind constitutionally exprcs.sed." Augusta, callcjl after the Prlii(»«(i I .Vugusta So|il a, daughter of Ooorgo 111. f I'l^vardsburg, after his son, Prlniio . I'dvvard, Duke ot ICont, father of i (.iiiccii Victoria. j Ixfft: I. after tlio English County, is 1 cdlleil o, ford (Ml the Itldeau to distin- tliigiiisii It from Oxford oa the Thames. Soutli (lower, al -er Earl (tower, a 1 member of Pitt's (iovernment, 17811. Wolford, from a property belonging j to (ioveruor Slmcoe. He was burled I at Ills domestic chajiel at " Wo- Idrnl. Klngstord »|ir.j it with the I double o. lllli- Trliil- iiiiiiltly thniUKli I>"MlltiiU' (if i.vrrv i:Miillt.v wlil.li the Nkllfiil (lliiloniatlHt luuHt |i(«»cHM, i)iitg»cur»> p<'ni'c at any prlip, tliisy Uniiitwl c()iic(l any- thlim wo hfllovwl piwsllilc" Mr. inf- tprwanta »i-' Jlpnry .strncliHy ap- pf-nM-.! iMi tlm wi'nn tcK) late to avi'rt iirnK»><»iiM cffortaat tlip laHt laonipnnt pnmvl virtually uwIcnh. •(iol furhlil tlint I Khiml-.l i-vcr liavn a lunwl In wicli nnotlinr piaip, In- wrotp. In ■ "'" IH-Jn'lKeil H^ifwowrtion aila. The IlUhop ralseil the Ok-n- garry Fenclbles ri^^lment for t'lo war of 18ia, iinil for this anil other «or- vlres lCt;rl llathiirst granted tiini a salary of UUIO, ami romlu hint the first illoresuu Catholic Bishop In tlio flrlt- Ish ilonilnlons since the Ileformatlui'. In I8:»i Bishop Mi'n.mnell went to KiiKlanil with Ills friend Dr. Kolph, of Aiicfister, to nrrango for the emiarn^ tlon of more Illghlaiiilers to ('nnnda. lie died tliire In 1H4(I, aged 7U years. The townsliljM of lilengarry County of his liipomjietent suee^'ssor, tin? Duke of Ulolimoml." The lieiwurd anol- iHlied by Aet of farilainen,'. Unmsay, from (leiieral (leorge Unm- say. Earl of Dnlliousie, horn 1770. iliid 1838. lleorifo Vonge, a member of the Hliel biirnc Government, and mlne.1 lt« future iiower and Influenee." Voime township In named after Sir ICscntt. aft«r Vonge's resldeiiie. sir Kilward Moyd (Ilaron MoKtvrn, who was Secretary of War In 177.S, mar i.Mieun Charlotte, wife of King (leorge III. Kinyon, from I/loyd, I-onl Kenyon, iMirn 17.12, died 1802. He was the son of a Welsh squire, ealiod to the bar In 17."iri, attracted the attention of Lord Thurlow, who apisilllteil iilm rled Amelia, dniight<'r of Sir William I Chief .liistlre of Cheshire." In 1782 he »™C'v "* '^'•eott. lev was nmile Attorney-Oeiiera!, and two esfl KlU- ' years hiter Muster of the Itolls. On the ntirenient of Lord Man.sfleld, I'ltt r.llzalH'thtown. af abetli, ilaiigliti>r of Cro'by Im the na> plaeo In I'liglaml. Meiit, V 'liiiierln- tenileiit of the nr ■•.. store Ip Aii- dr, luavlng a large fam- tion.1 from na vi tr, . , Tor „ grant of land r also, that tha Oc,... ernmiMit slmll buy his refildenoes ■„ (Jiii'liee, York ami Ncicark for mllj. tary or otiicr (lubllc purposes. KItiey may be called from a chat, aeter inlled KItflly In Den Johnson'H play, " Kvery Man In His Humor.'- There Is also a Kltley township ii, Siniinier Count.v, Kansas. made IvHiiyon Chief Justice of tlie King's Bench, with the title of Lord Kenyon, Baron of Grt'illngton. lie was disliked by the bar for Ills overbearing dls))osltlon and Insolent nmnnerK, but favored by the public on account of the rigid \m- partlallty of his iloclslons, anil Ills •ynmff^'^'*^* '■*i™*„lt\rf»f*». .nt nunilsr of the Acadian lir- corder (Halifax) gives the following a'ilLBll"P"o of old times; ■"57^ tc WK» lllilioum^. 'l.l tu» •icvvnf'^l'^ la in the suninier of 1H20 that the Duke of Man*'hest>»r, Sir Howard Douglas, Oovernor of New Brunswick, Oovernor Ready of I'. E. Island, and Sir T. Coch- rane nronid be in Halifax at the same time with the I-:arl of Dnlliousie, who was cxpet-ted from Canada late In .Inly, On the night of the lat August the Inhabitants of Halifax gave a ball In honor of lijo ( ountesB of Dalhousle. lo- ilny field ordered to be shot — one man hanged by his orders, without even the ceremony of Investigation or trial-— another 'ashed to the limit of physical i.-ndurance— others hacked ,,.„„.., ,. . , ,, , with the broad sword to death. The Was ealled after Lord •■renvilie. ; ..o„„t„ „„s 1„I,1 waste with fire and vi„«e 8lst..r Hester married the older j^word. The castles of Lovat, CI- ngnrry 1 Itt. I remler In 170.), and who wiw m„d L„,.hlel were burnt. Hut« and liov- Inrvti'iy respotislble for J,lie loss of America to tlie British Crown. " (irenvllie himself was jiloddingiy Industrious and .not without flnnii- clnl ability, but bis mind was narrow and iiedantlc In lt. In l'et<'rborough C'ounty, Ontario. Lord Orenvlll© onco said In the Brit- ish House of Lords, a body to which 'the Caiitidlan Ijenatf? lias sometliiies iMS'U compared, *' M.v Lords, you pos- si'Hs the pi'wer, a great power, for goofl. But tluore U a power wliiicii you do not jiossess— any nioio than tiie lIoiiNn of ('ommons. aii.v mure that the constitutional Hineri'igiis of tiiLs country— you have not tin- po\v<'r Ui treat with contempt the nntlon.'il will when it is legitimately Ire .•iml coiiNtltutlollftlly expr'-s.M'il." , Cali'douia, from a name glvei; by the Augusta, callcj^ after the IVlnceSd Honians to the nortlieru part of Seot- Angustu SopI a, daughter of Ooorjio lid, HI- r "O Caledonia, stern and wild! I'lhvardsbiirg, lifter his son. Prince ; Meet nurs)' for a isjetle elilld." Kilwnrd, Duke of Kent, father of i ilfred, from Crime Aifivd, m... "f Duke of Cumberland— wounded on the 1* wn" brilliant In the extreme. The company began to assemble at nine o'eiock, and, half an hour later. Lord and Lady Dalhousle arrived, and were rew'lved at the entrance of the build- ing by the couinillt"e of management, tlie hands playing, "(itsl Save the King." Her Xdidyshlp wiM led into the room by the Hon. Michael AVallace, and dam-lng soon after commenced- Ijidy Dalhousle o|>eiilng the ball with violated." — Forbes' Jacobite Memoirs. "The virtues of Duncan l-'orbea and of Colunol (iurdlncr shed a lustre on the H«Mie tllflgraced by the Duke of Cumberland and his myrmidons; the generous tevntlon of Lochlel elevates a party for whleh such a victim as Ix)vat died.'- North British lieview. PRIXCOTT COUNTY, Was named aftsi' and re- turned thanks fur the tribute of re- aiiect thiLS offereil to K.'r Ladyship, and at one ocliick Lord and Lady Dal- housle retired. The mark of nttentloii thus paid to the Counters was as grat- ifying to her feelings as it was hon- orable to the community. No conipll- ment could have be«'n paid which would have expressed more full.v tiie grati- tude of the public fur the honor of her vlsi i— and. It was remarked, that while the virtues which elevated tlic female charact^'r were ctierlslied la Nova Scotia. Her Ladyship's bright irnnkenncss of the soldiers when thev '""^"n";'^' "',""';' ""' ,V<' forgotten. U tliclr monthly, pay. and many ; ,, \r\T . I'-^.T",, '-'l,..i±ir- ..^-^h Dtlier letters f'om his is;n are found n the Archived. The (iiici'ii Vhtorla. ' ■)xfo. I, after the Fngiish County, Is s ri.lhil Oxford on the lUileau to dlstln- . tlngnihh It from Oxford on the Thames. .s B^on ile Longueiili |ut Ills domestic chajiel at " Woolford." : 'ho f !a niouunipnt to his mrmory, by Flax- ! ""•' man. was ef,«ctod I'l Kxet*r Cathi-- 1 Haw esbury, from Ltird llawkcs- Idrnl. KIngsford sin-.j It with the 1 bury, a riomt>er of the Porthmd I double o. |(oallt.)a trovcrnmeiit 1783). "Of wltli. who took a promlnont |>art In thi> war of 1812-14. ilavLllg charge townsliips of rrescott County i ?f "■''" """"l* *'■,"■ '" l'"nnuda In lHi;i. •" ! IIi.s reports to Lord liathurst appear in till' .VrchlveH. Montague, origin uncertain. .Vd- inlr.il .Mo.itiigue, who had command of the Jamaeui station. Is nientlimiNl In connection wltii Couimolore Hou- iiie'K promotion. .Montague Is the f:im- iiv nnme of the Karl ..' .Sandwich .■iikI of the Duke of Manchester, wiio iii.'irrieil a sister of the Duchess of Uichmon'.1-1715). Chancellor of the Ex- clii'ijuer. who d the plan to c»- tablLsh tho Bank of England, carried Act and put the tax (Icu-gn 111,, bom 1780, died 1782. I'lairagi'iiet, from a surname nf the myal anilly of i:iii^!.iiul frniu Henry 11. to )h-haril liL inclusive. Tlie name Is now borne tlirougli collateral des- cent b> the Duke of Buckingham and chumlM ((ircinlllc). Longioaii, from the Bnlgnenr, Colonel le Bn-on lie Longueiili, who sirvcd on, .i,„ i!,,p„]|,n„,, tho_Buish side in the Itevolutionary on windows* Driimmond. from tiuneral Sir (lor, ion Drum-ioml, born at Quebec, 1771. was with ..ir Ilalpli Abercromblo In l>ypt, 1801, was an Intimate friend oF the Bexley, after Nicholas Vunslttart. ; f.ord Bexley, Chancellor of the Kx- ■clieqner. i Dalton. after Dr. .lolin Dalton, of .Manchester, who died In 1844. He wiiM 11 noted HclentL-it, and discovered the atomic theory, that " matter con- slsm of ultimate particles or atoms Incaimble of division." I>altii of John Scott i>f Newcastle where he wns horn In 17."I. When quit,' n youth he eloped with nnd married Beiisy Surtees, and for a long time the young couple were ier.\' jMior. He ei.ti red Parliament In 178.'!, mill iK'cnnie a favor. ic of Lord Tlinrlow. who mltde Idiii Attorney lleneral In 170.'(.. In I7!)!». ns Baron Eldon. Ii(! w.iK maiU- Chief Justice rf the Comiiion Picas. In 18(11 he became Lonl Chnnccllor, aini with the exci'p- tloii of one jenr he held the seals from 1801 to 182(1. He was a great Tory ; opposed (!atliollc Emancipation. Parliamentary Reform, the Abolition of Slavery, Free Trade. Popular Edu- cutliMi and toleration of all klmls. So opposed was ]':imervlllB, after the wife of Sir Francis Bond Head, (iovernur, 1835- 1838. Longford, an lylsh county. SIMCOE COUNTY. .North of York, was named after John (iraves Slmcoe, the first Lleutenant- (iovenior of the separate Province of Upiier Canada, whose wife wo.'* Miss iluiilim, from w ich name the town- ship name of (iwullinbur} in York and Slmcoe Is taken. Slmcoo c-itabllshed the scut of (iovernment al Newark (Niagara) in 179'J, moved it to York (Toioiito), dlvliled Upper Canada Into 19 counties, and named many of the towiifthiiiti. He laid out the iJo\- eriior's Road (Diiudus street) from London to Dumlas ; also a trunk ro.-ul from Dundns to Toronto and King- ston, and Yongo street from Toron- to to Jjakc Slmcoe. He was eutliusi- astic with regard to the future of Canada. In one of his letters to ^ecretary of ftrta Dunilas, ho pro- poses a nnvn' station at Long Point, on I..ake l-:rle, London for the m ,■. , of (iovernment, tells how he Im j marked out Oxford (Woodstock) and| Cliathaiu for town sites; in another ^ letter to the Lo-Js of Trade (1704) ho antleipuU» thai I'cneianguishcnu will 1m' the most coiisider.-ilile town in U|h j |K'r Cauiida. as tho pa.-.snge to the Nortluvest will bo established there, and the chain of lakes from Bay (jiiinte to Lak. Silnu'on will give a route to the merchant ■ of Kingston, lie also proiioscii the iistruction of tlie Murray Canal, from Bay Quinte to Lake Ontario. Tlie towiislili»s of Slmcoj County arc .Maihedash, a name applied to that section of count./ by tli.' Indian.'!. It means muskeg, or marsliy land. Nottawnsaga. from the Algomiuiii wor-.ls \nliiloway, (the Iroiiuois) and i-aga (outlet of river). Nottawa.sapa Bay was calliut Iro.iiiols Bay until the beginning ol this century. Tecunisetli, fr«m the Shawniiee chief, born ;n 1709 up' the banks of tho Scioto Hl-cr In Onlo. killed at the buttle of Mirnvinutown In 1811-. Till iinlht, Tecunseli or T'ecuni.'ietli In the Indian langlagB signifies 'a tiger I couching for tis prey." I iiiiVtoii nnii .Napoleon fought In I81~i. Itii townships are Wcllesley. afUir .sir Arthur Welies- ioy, Duke of Wellington. WiKilwloli, the name cf the arsenal town in Kent. Knclaud. where Henry Mil. established u dockyard. Wilmot, from Mr. Wllmot. Private .s«i'retary to Lord Liverpool In 1810 ; irr from a Mr. WUnicit, who was em- ployed HH a surveyor by the (iovern- ment of Canada In 1816. North Dumfries, from the t'ouuty of liumfrles. In Scotland. Waterloo, n/ter the battle. DUFFERIN COUNTY Is named after Sir Freilerick Temple HamUton-rempli'-Bl.ickwixKl, .Mar luls of Dufferln ami Vliwount clanilehoye, who was (iovernor-tieneral of Caiut'la 1872-78, Ambiuisulor to Itussui. Tur- key and France; (iovernoraeneral of Iiulla. etc. The townships of Dufferln are. Mono, which in tho Spanish worlulcr. who fought at Sala- iminca nnd Vlttorla. ami wns jirob- al*^>ratlon tlvB «'. ueiieiit, ■ lud formerly (dark , „ jtlff , , Manitoaliiis sprung up, liiilucing His Kxcelluncy to give till captain orders to " iMjut ship" ami gut into tile St. Clair again. The story gocN that .-i cnntentlon was ragng alM>ut tliis time aiumgst the Surnlans alxjut ii.imuii' the village- . ,, . that tho matter was referred to ilta x"L^±JutV ^J™""""?. ""J that he suieestid t m of Iniury, to the Provln.;!. 11":."™' "Kome *"* """" '"^"'^ '""""" menc.«l It* oporatlons by buying up Uawa. ' daybreak-Sombra vant tr..cti. of tho clergy reserves anil before dawn »wii lamb at low jxrices. which III Kunheiula. '(.reek. " g«od language, ' ' ' was ameron has proved an Injury to this country i XiTlcSIir'l HnI;ro^'■"' tl^."""' "' ^""^ prectacly In proportion to its ox- 1 l^a^Si In P^r in Jei^, i^?'"'''*;'**'' tent. Thus, without. once asking the j J^iXJSn ^'""'""''■" ^'°"' <-<«- couHont of the l.'piMjr CaiiaiUnii Par- Uauiont, a vast quantity of our soil 1 BRUUE COUA'fPY was wlthdrnwu from public purposes, I Is called after Jaaes Bruce elirhth and pasBfxl Into the hands of private | I-:;arl of Elgin, twelfth Earlif 'Kln- si>eculatorH of the Lou.lon .Stock Ei-| lardine." f?r some time \I P for change. Southampton, Baron Bruce, of "Kin- Hohl again In small lots at b. \aTio ^k-nie pr^i^'^Tho toS-'is dn' a<»va.i<«. It was. In short a hug,, land I ,. I'^^'af^^r Mrs. wfplSa Ua, A gianoe at the ll«t of the cu-lglnal directors of the Canada Comixiny shows the source of the names of sli towiwhlps In l-ertli Cminty : Rlchajsl "lllansliaril," John "Fuller- ton," John "l^isthope,' !-Ulwnrd "EI- lloe," M. 1., William "Hlbbort," Hart "Logan." I08.1, ■ (luveruor of Canada In 1846. Lovernor Ueueral of India, 18H0. ded there in 1863. It was Loru El- gin who ivas stoned at Montreal la 1849. when the I'ariiament bullt^ lUgs were burned. He negotiated the Reciprocity Treaty of 18.-,4. D„-wnle t..-."« the name of the Com- i peopr hcnce^'fhe''{;';w'siifo oT^e^, mtslore of the Lake fleet U. 1812, killed cur?lck Cu\^ gS^ k*^ ArS.i? at the battle of Lake Champlain, l-^U. are found t,recno,.k, Arran Thon' was a bitter controversy about AIbemarl> Vl-jconnt ii.ir.- >»., nr »h~ f.Ll"™r|!l'.-L"«V'? responsihUlty for Earr of Alb.m';;?rP?K"pI;Ii).^°;?»°J l^u! perintendent tieneral for Indian Af- Conuuodoro Downie's death. Mornlngton. from the Earl of Morn- ington, brother of the Duke o' Wel- lington, nnd fathRT-ln-lnw of Sir Clmrlrt) Bagot, »iho succeeikid Lord .s,v.ienliam as Governor ol Canada In 1811. Lima, unknown. Wallace, possluly from Col. Hon J. H. Wallace, who raLso;li. from the Chief of I'liipiicwa Indians on the Snrnla w-rve in 1840. The word mean>: who ambles the water." MorrU. from Hon. Wm. Morrl.'j, P., for Lan.-irk. or his brotlie James Morris. M. P. for Leed ma.'.ter-tleucral In the forties St;uiley, from I'dward (ieoffrey Stanley. Earl of Derby. irii 170!) Under Seeretary for the i ilonles lii the Canning and Ooderlch c.orern- falrs In ( unada. 18.")4-5ll. and mar- ried Sophia Mary, daughter of Sir Allan .MacNnlj. 01 Hamilton. I'rlme Minister of Cannila. Right Hon. William Coutts Kep- IM'l, Viscount Bury, on of the Earl of Aibt'marle, lorn 1812 ; private sec- retary to Lord John Russell In 1850; Civil Secretary and Supi'rlntendent- (ier.eral of Indian Affairs for the I'rovlnce of ( anada In 1855. .Author of several iioUtloal and historical paiiers; sat for Norwich as a Lib- eral ; was sworn a Privy Councillor In 1859. "In lS,"i.-> Lord Bury, the private 'bu"t '*'<^''''tnry of the (io^e^nor-Ocne^aI, was Hjiit to iHjgotinte a treaty that would oiien the (Saugceni reserve for Now the nnmes of townships, town plot, road nrd al- most evervthlng else In tli" i'uulnsula Ills Ixjrdshin ami the . instead of the old lords of the 1,1511."— Pioturesi|UC Canada, p 507. . St. Edmund's, after Bury . i. Ed- mund's In Suffolk, where St. Edmund, KPig and ' art.vr. was crownci *r 8.-ifi. Tilrthplnce of Bishop na1-i..u Vls.oimt Bury takes his title fro.u Bury St. Kdmunds, Tho township, was surveyed In IS."." bv Mr. F. H. Lyiich-.Stauiitou. of this city, and Its town site is calicil Burv. l.lml^n.v, from '.illK'mavIe Bertie, ninth Earl of Llr. !.-