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  Timeline of Ontario history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The boundaries of Quebec were expanded to include the Ohio Country and Illinois Country, from the Appalachian Mountains on the east, south to the Ohio River, west to the Mississippi River and north to the southern boundary of lands owned by the Hudson's Bay Company, or Rupert's Land.
1885–The split between the Orange in Ontario and Roman Catholic Quebec is aggravated further by Protestant public support in Ontario for the hanging of Louis Riel, convicted of treason for his role in the North-West Rebellion that year.
Ontario objects to a federal remedial bill to restore French schools in Manitoba in part because of its support for provincial rights, and in part because of the influence of a Protestant Equal rights movement begun in response to pro-Roman Catholic policies instituted in Quebec.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timeline_of_Ontario_history   (3437 words)

  
 Martin - pafg05 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
William BICUM was born in 1842 in Ontario.
Myrtle Juanita KILBRIDE was born on 26 Nov 1904 in Chatham, Kent, Ontario.
Ernest H CROWDER was born in 1866 in Dresden, Kent, Ontario.
users.ev1.net /~comstone/pafg05.htm   (864 words)

  
 Chatham-Kent, Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1998 the County of Kent and the city of Chatham were amalgamated to form the Municipality of Chatham-Kent.
According to the May 2001 census, the population of the municipality of Chatham-Kent was 107,341 people, compared with a resident population in the province of Ontario of 11,410,050 people.
The sections of Highway 2 and Highway 3 (the Talbot Trail) in Chatham-Kent were downloaded by the province in 1998, becoming local roads 2 and 3, but they remain siginificant through routes and are still locally known by their old names.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chatham-Kent,_Ontario   (1602 words)

  
 Martin - pafg87 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Bertha A COLBURN was born on 6 Dec 1886 in Ontario.
Nellie PICKERING was born on 19 Dec 1886 in Ontario.
Elenoria was born on 1 Jul 1861 in Ontario.
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 Ross Lambertson| "The Dresden Story": Racism, Human Rights, and the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada| ...
Dresden was one of the first issues facing this new committee.
In specific terms, the story of Dresden suggests that the human rights activists’ success was the result of a unique concatenation of ideas about race and class — a trans-class consensus that the interests of both workers and employers trumped racial divisions.
He served as a CCF vice-president (and Ontario CCF President) throughout the 1940s, and was an Ontario MPP from 1943 to 1945 and again from 1948 to 1951.
www.historycooperative.org /journals/llt/47/03lamber.html   (9747 words)

  
 News Archives
May 23 - SARNIA — Making their Ontario Sires Stakes debut at Hiawatha Horse Park on Thursday evening, the three-year-old pacing colts made it clear that the competition would be fast and furious for the Gold Series crown this season.
May 21 - DRESDENOntario Sires Stakes excitement is back in Dresden this weekend with three Trillium Series divisions for the sophomore trotting fillies.
May 15 - DRESDENDresden Raceway throws open the doors on another family friendly season of harness racing this Monday at 1 pm, featuring eight divisions of three-year-old pacing fillies in their first Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots event of the season.
www.ontariosiresstakes.com /news/news_archives.html?month=May&year=2003   (1004 words)

  
 Explore Canada: Heritage Interpretation across a Nation's Landscape
This humble house in Dresden, Ontario became a crucial link in the Underground Railroad when it was settled by Josiah Henson, who escaped slavery in Kentucky.
They came to Upper Canada, as Ontario was known in the late 18th century, because it was seen as a safe haven for fls.
In 1841 near Dresden, he and several other abolitionists purchased 200 acres of land and founded a vocational school for fl refugees called the British American Institute, and soon residents plied their trades at local farms, mills and industries.
www.greatexcursions.com /blogs/explore_canada/2005_07_09_explorecanada_archive.html   (2286 words)

  
 The Descendants of the John Holme and Eliza Crafts family
She was married to Frank William PENTZ on 1 Jan 1919 in Windsor, Ontario.
She was married to Neil William BRATT in 1948 in Ontario.
Melvin THOMPSON was born in 1869 in Chatham Twp, Kent Co. Ontario.
www.webination.com /holmes/d15.htm   (826 words)

  
 Dresden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Five further explosions were reported, the last of which scattered numerous small fragments and projected the main mass into Dan Solomon's beet field near Dresden.
Charles Ross, the editor of the Dresden News.
The main mass is housed at the University of Western Ontario.
www.geo.ucalgary.ca /cdnmeteorites/meteorite/dresden.html   (185 words)

  
 CD Baby: DRESDEN SKY: Dresden Sky EP
Dresden Sky's core duo is Erin Gignac and Marc Bertrand, two talented and versatile artists whose contemporary approach to folk music is as invigorating as it is innovative.
Marc "Birch" Bertrand, originally from Amherstburg, Ontario, is the guitarist/vocalist in the duo.
Although Gignac and Bertrand are the core of Dresden Sky, other musicians ranging from drummers to vocalists to brass players often join the duo in the studio and on stage.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/dresdensky   (601 words)

  
 Dawn Mills - Ghost Town
The site lies 5 KMs east of Dresden, Ontario on county road 15, two KMs north of highway 21.
On the west side on the road you will encounter the former hotel and a former residence, while on the opposite side is the former church and parsonage.
Around that prosperous point in time Dawn Mills, with it’s population of 100 + challenged near-by Dresden for regional supremacy, and at one point was the township’s judicial centre.
www.ghosttowns.com /canada/ontario/dawnmills.html   (521 words)

  
 Promise Keepers Canada
These men were from at least 5 different denominations in the Dresden area.
So from the humble beginnings of a few men, we are now ministering to about 24 men every week, and still growing.
Reaching out to men in the community, we were holding 3 to 4 breakfasts on Saturday mornings at different churches in the Dresden area.
www.promisekeepers.ca /content/articles?id=96   (516 words)

  
 Ontario Heritage Trust - Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site opens May 21
DRESDEN, Ontario — Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site opens for the 2005 season on Saturday, May 21.
The Ontario Heritage Foundation is an agency of the Government of Ontario, dedicated to identifying, preserving, protecting and promoting Ontario's heritage for all of us to enjoy and for others to experience in the future.
The Ontario Heritage Trust is an agency of the Ministry of Culture.
www.heritagefdn.on.ca /userfiles/HTML/nts_1_8212_1.html   (297 words)

  
 GE Food Alert Campaign Center - Headlines
One of the reasons for higher Roundup Ready soybean prices in Ontario is that Monsanto charges a technology fee of $8.75 on a 25kg bag on top of the price of the seed.
Ontario farmers are also prohibited from saving and replanting Roundup Ready soybean seeds.
The OSG objects when our Ontario producers are required to pay for technology that is given free of charge to our competitors.
www.gefoodalert.org /News/news.cfm?News_ID=2133   (434 words)

  
 Generations 1-4
JOHN R. was born November 22, 1860 in Botany, Kent Co. Ontario, and died April 18, 1930 in Ridgetown.
Kent Co. Ontario, and died April 07, 1994 in Dresden Ontario.
Kent Co. Ontario, and died 1959 in Kent Co. Ontario.
www.theatkinsonfamily.com /descend.html   (1451 words)

  
 Dresden, Ontario - Real Estate Listings and Information
Dresden, Ontario Canada is a community in excess of 2,600 located in north - central Chatham-Kent.
Dresden is a beautiful historic rural town located in an agriculture rich area.
Dresden is also home to historic Dresden Raceway where the sounds of harness racing can be heard during the summer months.
www.ovalcreek.com /cgi-bin/CityInfo.cgi?CityID=19726   (153 words)

  
 Season of Rage: Hugh Burnett and the Struggle for Civil Rights
The last place in North America where fl people and white people could not sit down together to share a cup of coffee in a restaurant was not in the American Deep South.
It was in the small, sleepy Ontario town of Dresden.
The National Unity Association was a group of African Canadian citizens in Dresden who had challenged the racist attitudes of the 1950s and had forged an alliance with civil rights activists in Toronto to push the Ontario Government for changes to the law in order to outlaw discrimination.
www.fedpubs.com /subject/history/season_rage.htm   (351 words)

  
 Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site
Remarks by the Honourable Lincoln M. Alexander, former Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario and Chairman of the Ontario Heritage Foundation.
Reverend Henson, a fugitive slave who found freedom in Ontario, arrived in 1830 via the Underground Railroad, and established a settlement where other former slaves learned to be self-sufficient, successful community members.
The Ontario Heritage Foundation is a not-for-profit agency of the Government of Ontario dedicated to identifying, preserving, protecting and promoting Ontario’s heritage.
www.uncletomscabin.org /eventsmain.htm   (450 words)

  
 Dresden singles - Dresden dating - Dresden personals
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 Crop Circle News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Two new interesting "formations" just reported to CCCRN Ontario in the last few days....
Similar to the soybean circle found last year at Staples, Ontario (again possible lightning damage).
Found August 15 by CCCRN Ontario representative Joanna Emery.
www.cropcirclenews.com /modules/news/article.php?storyid=331   (181 words)

  
 This is a page taken from the Times Herald
Robinson, a relative of Shadd's, leads the efforts in Chatham to research the history of the thriving fl community that arose in southern Ontario in the 19th century.
CHATHAM-KENT, Ontario -- The glint and sparkle are gone from week-old snow, and a drab February sky does little to recommend Chatham-Kent to a visitor.
Wedged between Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie, this is a landscape of tidy farms and handsome towns, though winter has idled the former and dulled the latter.
www.harpersferrywv.net /Time's-Herald-story.htm   (1878 words)

  
 Uncle Tom was a real person; his cabin is in Canada. | csmonitor.com
DRESDEN, ONTARIO – 'When my feet first touched the Canada shore, I threw myself on the ground, rolled in the sand, seized handfuls of it and kissed them and danced around, till, in the eyes of several who were present, I passed for a madman.'
The two-story clapboard house, constructed of cedar and tulipwood, was, by the standards of its day in rural Ontario, considered substantial.
When Henson was a small child, he saw his family separated and always remembered the tears his mother shed when his brothers and sisters were literally torn from her arms.
www.csmonitor.com /2005/0126/p11s02-trgn.html   (1053 words)

  
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The Standardbred Ontario Sires Stakes program was established in 1974.
The objective of the program is to improve the breed and provide viable incentives for breeders, owners and trainers to breed, buy and race horses in Ontario.
To be eligible to the Ontario Sires Stakes program, foals must be sired by a stallion registered and standing in Ontario.
www.ontariosiresstakes.com /index.html   (133 words)

  
 Rev Josiah Henson of Dresden Ontario was the inspiration for Uncle Tom for the story Uncle Tom's Cabin
Rev Josiah Henson of Dresden Ontario was the inspiration for Uncle Tom for the story Uncle Tom's Cabin
Rev Josiah Henson of Dresden Ontario was the inspiration for Uncle Tom, in Uncle Tom's Cabin
Just outside of the village of Dresden in southwestern Ontario is a 200-acre piece of land that was purchased as a refuge for fugitives from the United States, in 1841.
www.canadacool.com /COOLFACTS/ONTARIO/DresdenUncleTom.html   (313 words)

  
 Welcome to African Canadian Online
She was born in New York State and was sold to the Mohawk Chief Joseph Brant in the 1770s, some time before the American Revolution.
He was very instrumental in establishing the British American Institute, at Dawn (Dresden), Ontario, which trained Canadians in Technical Systems for three quarters of a century.
Henson's home is located in Dresden Ontario, is known as "Uncle Tom's Cabin." It has been transformed into a museum which has displays that illustrate history and life Black-populated areas in nineteenth century.
www.yorku.ca /aconline/culture/pioneers.html   (851 words)

  
 Ontario Heritage Trust - Southwestern Ontario
In 1986, the Ontario Heritage Foundation entered into a 25-year agreement with the Ministry of Government Services to provide field offices in the house for the Ministries of Culture and Citizenship.
In February 2005, an agreement was reached with the St. Clair Parks Commission and the Government of Ontario to transfer ownership and operation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin Historic Site to the Ontario Heritage Foundation.
He led a Black militia unit during the Rebellion of 1837, advocated in support of literacy and education for Blacks, toured parts of the United States and Britain to raise funds to support his activities and helped Black Canadians to join the Union Army to fight against slavery during the American Civil War.
www.heritagefdn.on.ca /userfiles/HTML/nts_1_8200_1.html   (1930 words)

  
 Reverend Josiah Henson
Widely considered the inspiration for Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), the Rev. Josiah Henson is buried in the Dresden, Ontario cemetery.
On the monument erected to his memory—where "his abused and honoured bones lie"—the square and compasses are engraved, but in the Fellowcraft position.
The confusion about his year of birth originated in his autobiography, published in London in 1877, where he states, "I was born June 15th, 1789".
freemasonry.bcy.ca /biography/henson_j/henson_j.html   (188 words)

  
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 KELLY BRANCHES: SASKATCHEWAN-GLANDFORD TWSP-KENT CO.-MIDDLESEX TWSP.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Amos Kelly, born August 4, 1859 in Glanford Station, Wentworth, Ontario.
(Amos Kelly, Isaac, Jonathan Philip, Peter, John,John McKelly) was born 1849 in Glanford, Wentworth, Ontario, and died June 20, 1909 in London,Ontario.
Phoebe Beatrice Kelly, born November 1891 in Tilbury E; died July 23, 1947 in Dresden Ontario.
www.expage.com /kellyancaster   (337 words)

  
 CBC News: Farmers protest outside Ontario legislature
The protest organizers warned that if the province doesn't act quickly with a cash infusion of $300 million, spring planting will be affected and a lot of rural communities will suffer.
DeVries, who farms in Dresden, said Ontario's grains and oil seeds crops alone are worth $2 billion annually, but the sector is struggling after a number of poor crops and a price collapse last summer.
The premier, who was in Oshawa east of Toronto, blamed the farmers' troubles on the U.S. border closure to Canadian beef over mad cow disease, as well as to falling commodity prices around the world.
www.cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2005/03/02/farmprotest-050302.html   (1100 words)

  
 OLG: Slots at Dresden Raceway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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Take a break from the action and savour a light snack in the fully licensed Luau Bar.
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