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    44°48′N 82°24′W / 44.8°N 82.4°W / 44.8; -82.4The Huron Tract Purchase also known as the Huron Block, registered as Crown Treaty Number 29, is a large...
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  • veteran. He became one of the first settlers and business people in the Huron Tract in present-day southwestern Ontario Canada. Van Egmond became an early...
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  • historic home of the Huron people until 1649 Rural Municipality of Huron No. 223, in south-central Saskatchewan Huron Tract, or Huron Block, a large area...
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    many tried. The Huron Tract lies in the counties of Huron, Perth, Middlesex and present-day Lambton County, Ontario, bordering on Lake Huron to the west and...
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    Superintendent, the company was successful in populating an area called the Huron Tract – an achievement later called "the most important single attempt at settlement...
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    Original extent of the Huron Tract. Map of Canada West in 1850, with the Huron District outlined in brown. Canada West in 1857. Huron County is marked in...
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    Ausable in the early 20th century. The Anishinaabeg people who signed Huron Tract Treaty #29 referred to the river as “Niigaanziibii” / Niigaansibiing”...
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    John Galt's role with the Canada Company in populating Upper Canada's Huron Tract, calling it "the most important single attempt at settlement in Canadian...
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    a large part of Southern Ontario (the Huron Tract). He was later elected as a Member of Parliament for the Huron riding in the 1st Parliament of the Province...
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    Retrieved April 24, 2014. Lee, Robert C. (2004). The Canada Company and the Huron Tract, 1826-1853: Personalities, Profits and Politics. Dundurn. p. 149....
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  • the Robinson Huron Treaty and signed by the subscribing Chiefs and Principal Men are as follows: FIRST—Pamequonaishcung and his Band, a tract of land to...
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    helped develop the Huron Tract and later, to found Goderich. Also noteworthy, Thomas Mercer Jones administered much of the million acre Tract and built a richly...
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    original townships. Eight of the townships were laid out as part of the Huron Tract, and three more were surveyed from that part of the crown land known...
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  • The Huron Mountain Club is a private club whose land holdings in Marquette County, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, constitutes one of the largest...
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    The Rideau Purchase (1819) Long Woods Purchase (1822) Huron Tract Purchase (1827) Saugeen Tract Agreement (1836) Manitoulin Agreement (1836) The Robinson...
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    established to aid in the colonization of the Huron Tract in Upper Canada along the eastern shore of Lake Huron. After the company was incorporated by royal...
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    largely by the influence of the highly exclusive Huron Mountain Club (HMC) which owns a large tract of land in the mountains, including a portion of the...
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  • from Strachan, the Company received 1,100,000 acres (4,452 km2) in the Huron Tract, in substitution for the originally contemplated 829,430 acres (3,357 km2)...
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    1839, the Canada Company sent a surveyor to Blanshard Township in the Huron Tract to choose a site for a town on the Thames River which would later be...
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    and Lobo. Adelaide Township came from the Huron Tract in 1835, and Williams Township was withdrawn from Huron County and annexed to Middlesex in 1845....
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  • Township Treaty No. 7 Lake Simcoe–Lake Huron Purchase (1815) Huron Tract Purchase (1827) Treaty 45 (1836) Saugeen Tract Agreement (1836) Robinson Treaties...
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  • the Ottawa Valley and Georgian Bay. This area was known as the Ottawa–Huron Tract. In 1847, an exploration survey was carried out by Robert Bell to lay...
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    located and surveyed tracts for himself and military comrades. After some dispute, he was eventually granted a patent letter for tracts of land there. The...
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  • Township Treaty No. 7 Lake Simcoe–Lake Huron Purchase (1815) Huron Tract Purchase (1827) Treaty 45 (1836) Saugeen Tract Agreement (1836) Robinson Treaties...
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    Township Treaty No. 7 Lake Simcoe–Lake Huron Purchase (1815) Huron Tract Purchase (1827) Treaty 45 (1836) Saugeen Tract Agreement (1836) Robinson Treaties...
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    Maitland River (category Rivers of Huron County, Ontario)
    highlighted on a topographic map. Lee, Robert C., The Canada Company and the Huron Tract, 1826-1853 p.251 "North Maitland River Sub-basin" (PDF). Watershed Report...
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  • History of Prescott, Ontario Hudson Plains Ecozone Hummingbird Ltd. Huron County Huron Tract Huronia Hurricane Hazel Hyslop and Ronald Imperial Towers Imprisonment...
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    most prominent of these was the Canada Company, which subdivided the Huron Tract into lots, and which was based inland at Guelph. It opened the western...
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    Seaforth, Ontario (category Communities in Huron County, Ontario)
    in 2013. Colonel Anthony Van Egmond (1778–1838), first farmer in the Huron Tract. Participant in Upper Canada Rebellion. Cooney Weiland (1904–1985), former...
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  • Township Treaty No. 7 Lake Simcoe–Lake Huron Purchase (1815) Huron Tract Purchase (1827) Treaty 45 (1836) Saugeen Tract Agreement (1836) Robinson Treaties...
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