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In Search of Your Canadian Past: The Canadian County Atlas Digital Project

In Search of Your Canadian Past: The Canadian County Atlas Digital Project · Canadian County Atlas Digital Project, McGill University Library · Ontario and Quebec, Canada · other

H. Belden & Co. (original atlas publishers); digitized by McGill University Library · McGill University, Montreal, 2001 (site launched 1999)

Jurisdiction
Ontario and Quebec, Canada
Registry / office
Canadian County Atlas Digital Project, McGill University Library
Series
other
Years covered
1874-1881
Provider
other
digital.library.mcgill.ca ↗ retrieved 2026-09-04 Added manually

Every subscriber named in the 1874-1881 Ontario/Quebec county atlases, with the concession and lot they farmed, sourced from the original H. Belden & Co. illustrated county atlases. A subscriber-paid directory (occupation/title entries are self-reported), so cited at quality 2, not 3.

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In Search of Your Canadian Past: The Canadian County Atlas Digital Project Date 1879 Secondary

In Search of Your Canadian Past: The Canadian County Atlas Digital Project · Canadian County Atlas Digital Project, McGill University Library · Ontario and Quebec, Canada · other

For “Resided” 1879 of James Henderson

Last Name: Henderson | First Name: James | Nativity: Canada | Business: Farmer; Stock Grower | Year Settled: 1839 | Post Office: Fallowfield | Township: Nepean | County: Carleton | Atlas Date: 1879 | Concession and Lot / Lot size: V, 17 / 100; V, 18 / 50

Field:value pairs quoted in the page's own order (a table of Last Name/First Name/Nativity/Business/Year Settled/Post Office/Township/County/Atlas Date, then a Concession-and-Lot table giving each lot and its acreage). Identifies this James Henderson as a Nepean Township farmer at Fallowfield in 1879, two years before the 1881 census (event 136875, already in the tree) records him there with wife Elizabeth/Eliza Ferguson (#2998) and children Eva Jane and James Herbert. FH-60: the companion atlas record for 'William Henderson' (PersonID 962, https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/showrecord.php?PersonID=962) gives IDENTICAL fields -- same two lots (V,17 and V,18), same Post Office (Fallowfield), same Business (Farmer; Stock Grower) -- with Year Settled 1843 (matching the 38-year-old 'William Henderson' the 1881 census records as a separate household two doors from this one, on the same Nepean page as Stephen Bromley Jarvis Ferguson, per FH-60). Two men farming the identical two-lot parcel is unusual for unrelated neighbours and is consistent with a father/son or brothers arrangement, but no record naming their relationship was found this session -- reported as a strong open lead, not asserted as a family link.