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Waterloo County Settlers
The Clergy Reserve known as
the Queen's Bush extended from Waterloo County to Lake
Huron. The majority of black settlers settled in the southern
half of Peel Township in Wellington County but the Queen's
Bush Settlement also included the northern half of Wellesley
Township and the western portion of Woolwich Township in
Waterloo County. This area, eight by twelve miles in size,
had a population of approximately 1,500 Black settlers by
1840.
Around 1800, families of Mennonites
began to move north from the United States, especially
Pennsylvania, to Canada in search of farm land.
Ezra Eby collected family histories from Pennsylvania
German pioneer families in Waterloo Township, Ontario
and published these in 1895 and 1896 as A Biographical
History of Waterloo Township and other Townships of the
County : being a history of the early settlers and their
descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin,
as also much other unpublished historical information
chiefly of a local character
On Waterloo County GenWeb
Search the list
of surnames from A Biographical History of Waterloo
Township and other Townships of the County...
Read the entire book online at Our
Roots - Nos Racines
Read the online book Little
paradise : the saga of the German Canadians of Waterloo
County, Ontario, 1800-1975 by Leibbrandt, Gottlieb
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Frakter: Notice of departure and arrival for Abraham D. Clemens from Pennsylvania to Waterloo County 1825
Mennonite GINGRICH Family of Switzerland, Waterloo County Ontario & Pennsylvania
Jonathan Butler, a black man, & wife Elizabeth Jenkins in the Queen's Bush Settlement in Waterloo
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