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Kinloss Township

A map of Kinloss Township can be found on the Bruce County GenWeb website. Kinloss Township was named after Lord Elgin, who was also Baron Bruce, of Kinloss.

Kinloss Township Places

• Grey Ox Corner - on the 4th concession.

The Grey Ox Corner plaque




• Holyrood - a hamlet on the 8th concession.

• Kinlough - on the 12th concession, it had a post office from 1863 until 1915. Simon Corrigan was the first postmaster.

• Kinloss - a hamlet and post office in the north end of the township. The first postmaster was Thomas Hodgins, appointed in 1854.

• Langside - an early post office and hamlet on the 4th concession. Thomas Ross was its first postmaster, from 1857 until his death in 1862.

• Lucknow - a village at the south end of the township and county, bordering Huron County.

  South Kinloss Presbyterian Church, near Lucknow

Kinloss Township Notable People

John Hutchison Garnier was a naturalist, physician and author. The Canadian Medical Association Journal published an article about him in 1933.

James Somerville was a Lucknow businessman and Member of Parliament.

Bibliography

History of the County of Bruce by Norman Robertson, 1906. Available online.

Kith and Kin of Kinloss: a History of the Settlement of Kinloss Township by the Kinloss Township Historians, 2003. See Publications page. Amicus No. 28114470.

Slippy roads & cattlebeasts: a boy grows up in Bruce County by  Graham Macdonald, 2002. Amicus No. 27478895.

Tales from the Grey Ox: folklore sections relating to the history of former school section S.S. no. 6, Kinloss or the Grey Ox School and the surrounding area by Grey Ox Memorial Plaque Committee, 1981. Amicus No. 4716973.