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	Knowledge Base
		Perth County Council was established by the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889, taking over powers from the Commissioners of Supply, County Road Trust, and other local authorities.
		In 1891 the Boundary Commissioners made significant alterations to the boundaries between Perthshire and the adjoining counties of Fife, Forfar, Kinross and Stirling, including the transfer of the detached portion of Perthshire at Culross and Tulliallan to the county of Fife.
		Perth County Council and Perth and Kinross Joint County Council were both abolished in 1975 by the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1973, and the greater part of the county became part of Tayside Region, but with the western portion of the county being placed in Central Region.
	www.scan.org.uk /knowledgebase/gazetteer/county-Perth.htm (308 words)

	Perth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Perth, Scotland, is the original Perth, after which the others are named (directly or indirectly), and the administrative town of the region of Perth and Kinross
		Perth, Western Australia, the state capital city of Western Australia and fourth-largest city in Australia.
		Perth, Walsh County, North Dakota is a township
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Perth (176 words)

	Perth
		The county council, based in the county buildings (see AK Bell library), was responsible for the second largest county in Scotland, which stretched almost to the head of Loch Lomond, and south to Dunblane and north to Tyndrum.
		In the nineteenth century, Perth was a centre of banking and this impressive building, which has a magnificent plaster ceiling, was built as the headquarters of the Central Bank of Scotland which was absorbed by the Bank of Scotland who had this as their main branch in the city till 2003.
		Perth is still a railway junction, and was at one time the meeting point of the North British, Caledonian and Highland Railways.
	website.lineone.net /~johnaferguson/pcity.html (3293 words)

	Perth South Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Township of Perth South was formed in 1998 by an amalgamation of the Township of Downie and the Township of Blanshard.
		Perth South is a lower tier municipality within the County of Perth structure joined by 3 other municipalities Perth East, West Perth & North Perth.
		The names of the Perth County Townships were all a result of the 1998 amalgation of 11 townships into four and are derived from their position in Perth County.
	www.robicatank.com /perthsouth/perthsouthinfo.htm (326 words)

	PERTH REGIMENTAL HISTORY
		The Perths were the first regiment on their objective, and despite counter attacks by enemy tanks and infantry, the position was held.
		The recreated Perth Regiment was the only unit outfitted as Second War troops and was congratulated by the Colonel commanding the parade for their steadiness and turnout.
		The strength of the recreated Perths peaked in 1998, with an attendance of forty-seven that spring at the regiment's annual General William Rutherford School at CFB Borden.
	www.perthregiment.com /history/perthhist.html (4980 words)

	Boyle Genealogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This was established using the data found in several census' (1861, 1871, 1881, 1901) of Perth County, Ontario, Canada.
		John Henderson and Margaret [Boyle] Henderson are buried in the Elma Centre Cemetery, Perth County, Ontario.
		John and Margaret HENDERSON are buried in Elma Centre Cemetery, Elma Township, Perth County, Ontario.
	web2.airmail.net /bhende19/boyle.htm (1012 words)

	Stratford-Perth Archives - Genealogical Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Perth County Branch OGS cemetery transcriptions are available for reference in all three divisions and for sale in Stratford.
		Marys Journal Argus and predecessors from the 1850s to 1930 are available at the Stratford office as part of the Perth County Branch OGS library.
		Newsletters of all OSG branches and a number of other genealogical societies are received in exchange by the Perth County Branch OGS and are available at the Archives.
	www.stratfordpertharchives.on.ca /resources.htm (586 words)

	Perthshire Scotland Big County Perth
		In the east is the city of Perth, compact by most standards but with a wealth of shops, attractions and history.
		To the southwest is Strathearn and in the north and west the Scottish Highlands begin - Atholl and Breadalbane - the land of Lochs, mountains, salmon rivers and hydro-electric dams.
		Prior to local government reorganisation in 1975 when Perth and Kinross was formed, historic Perthshire extended further south and west to include the towns of Aberfoyle, Callander, Dunblane, Doune and Killin plus the famous Trossachs.
	www.perthshire-scotland.co.uk /about1.htm (171 words)

	Perth, Scotland, Perthshire
		Perth has been a Royal Burgh since the 13thC and was a Royal residence throughout the middle ages.
		Perth is often refered to as the Ancient Capital of Scotland on this account.
		Perth was occupied by Montrose in 1644 and by Jacobites in 1689, 1715 and 1745.
	www.perthshire-scotland.co.uk /perth2a.htm (468 words)

	Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Peddie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The family was founded in the Mohawk Valley after the revolution and the first settlement made in the town of Perth, Fulton county, where the Scotch emigrants sought the rough and heavily timbered lands rather than the meadow land along the streams that attracted the Dutch to the town of Palatine, Montgomery county.
		Among the emigrants to Perth was William Peddie, the founder.
		He married (second) in Perth Center, New York, Carrie McIntyre, born in Perth, October, 1868, daughter of John D. and Sarah (Ferguson) McIntyre, born in Perth, of Scotch ancestors who settled in the county one hundred and fifty years ago, with the first Scotch settlers from Perth.
	www.schenectadyhistory.org /families/hmgfm/peddie.html (1610 words)

	Lanark County Genealogical Society : 1905 Old Boys Reunion : June 30, 1905 : History of Old Perth
		On the sixth concession line of Bathurst may be [xxxxx] yet the teasel growing by the wayside, [relics?] of the plants brought from Germany and the Low Countries by these settlers and cultivated for the purpose of raising the nap on the coarse woolen cloths woven on the looms in their humble homes.
		General, Quebec, dated "Perth, on River Tay, 10th May, 1816," both the river and the town having acquired the new names from the settlers of the Scotch colony, many of whom were natives of that part of the land of the heather.
		And so, Perth, although not on the main canal, became a depot for supplies while the Rideau was being completed, which occurred in 1832, it having been begun in 1826.
	globalgenealogy.com /LCGS/1905oldboys/905630B1.HTM (3973 words)

	Perth travel guide - Wikitravel
		Perth [1] is a town in Ontario, in Canada.
		The Perth Museum is housed in Matheson House, c1840, on the main street of Downtown Heritage Perth.
		Perth is home to a large number or writers, performers, artists and artisans.
	wikitravel.org /en/Perth_(Ontario) (2430 words)

	oxha101.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This was disputed by Perth supporters who noted that the 100 signatures included many not entitled to vote, such as farmers' sons.
		The 15-member Perth Council, meeting on June 4, 1908, voted 8-7 in favour of inviting Tavistock to join Perth, but published no comment as to why the vote was so close.
		The Toronto government agreed with Perth's Conservative councillors and decided that Tavistock should be in Oxford County, though it was 1909 before it finally happened.
	www.execulink.com /~ocbogs/hist/oxhquiz/oxha101.html (538 words)

	Perth Archive News May to Dec'99
		The Annual Meeting of the Perth County Federation of Agriculture was held on Thursday, October 14 at the Downie Optimist Community Centre.
		The Perth County Federation of Agriculture invites all OFA members to come by the OFA Building at this year's IPM at Dashwood, The Perth Federation of Agriculture will be the "hosts" of the OFA building on Wednesday, September 22.
		This is being supplied to Perth OFA members by the Perth County Federation of Agriculture, and the Farm Mutuals in Perth County.
	www.ofa.on.ca /federations/Newsletters/perth_archive.htm (3800 words)

	Middlesex County College : Perth Amboy Center : Center's History
		This type of evolutionary process is best evident in the history of Middlesex County Collegeﾒs Perth Amboy Center which can follow the progress of a onetime experiment into a dynamic and integral part of the educational life of our county.
		Many Hispanic students in Perth Amboy yearned to be a part of this program but transportation difficulties and economic factors loomed as obstacles to their ability to register in Edison.
		With the approval of Dr. Nick Rosal, the director of the Perth Amboy Adult School, the College opened an office at Barracks Street for the exclusive use of Proyecto Puente under the leadership of Martin P￩rez.
	www.middlesex.cc.nj.us /pa/control.cfm/ID/1853 (2300 words)

	1851 New Brunswick Census, Victoria County
		The returns from Andover and Perth were on the official forms, but those from the francophone parishes seem to have been written on pieces of paper of various sizes, accounting for the wide disparity in the number of names on each page.
		The area covered in the Parish of Perth is described thusly: "The Parish of Perth, County Victoria, on the East Side of the River St.John, Extent 30 miles settled 16 miles up the Tobique River." The area covered includes today's Arthurette.
		The census taker for Perth, Charles McLauchlan, turned over the returns on November 8, 1851; the census in Perth was thus probably conducted over the course of the month of October.
	www.upperstjohn.com /1851 (1976 words)

	Perth Amboy, New Jersey NJ, city profile (Middlesex County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
		Perth Amboy is a city in Middlesex County, in the New York metro area.
		Perth Amboy is at the mouth of the Raritan River.
		Perth Amboy is where I am from and growing up there was a beautiful experience...
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=18426 (729 words)

	Visit Perth County, Ontario: the website of the Perth County Visitor's Association
		Perth County has the second highest German population in Ontario, following the Kitchener-Waterloo area, and many of the cemetery stones in Ellice and other townships are in German script.
		Between 1848-1856 the northern part of the county which was part of the Queen’s Bush was opened for settlement.
		In 1853, Perth County separated from Huron County when its new courthouse and jail were completed in Stratford.
	www.visitperth.ca /history.html (374 words)

	Historical Plaques of Perth County
		Its original owner, Sebastian Fryfogel, said to be the first settler in Perth County, was operating a partially completed log Inn on this property in December, 1828.
		Settlement was slow until the early 1850s when the advent of the railway and the designation of Stratford as county town transformed the village into a thriving administrative and commercial centre.
		Location: Perth County/ NE Hope Township approximatel Lot 20, Concession 6 a large fieldstone sits by the side of the road with this message and a diagram of a triangulation tower.
	www.waynecook.com /aperth.html (2336 words)

	Victoria County, New Brunswick - History of Perth-Andover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1967, the town of Perth-Andover was created by the amalgamation of the former villages of Andover and Perth, situated on opposite sides of the Saint John River.
		Perth, located on the east side of the river, is situated on lands originally reserved in 1801 for the Maliseet Indians.
		According to Merle Armstrong, the progenitor of the Armstrong emigrated from Graitney, Dumfriesshire, Scotland to Halifax, N.S. in winter of 1769 to 1770.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~nbpast/VI/vi-Perth-Andover.html (412 words)

	Middlesex County College : Perth Amboy Center : Center's History
		This type of evolutionary process is best evident in the history of Middlesex County Collegeâs Perth Amboy Center which can follow the progress of a onetime experiment into a dynamic and integral part of the educational life of our county.
		Many Hispanic students in Perth Amboy yearned to be a part of this program but transportation difficulties and economic factors loomed as obstacles to their ability to register in Edison.
		The United Students of Perth Amboy Club, originally established in 1982, has excelled in its attempt to provide for the social and cultural development of the students of the Center.
	www.middlesexcc.edu /pa/control.cfm/ID/1853 (2286 words)

	Perth, New York NY, town profile (Fulton County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
		Perth is a town in Fulton County, in the Gloversville metro area.
		At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Perth was $16,870, compared with $21,587 nationally.
		Median rent in Perth, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $405.
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=1410 (477 words)

	Perth County Pioneers.
		In 1936 a memorial cairn was erected beside No.7 Highway at the village of Shakespeare, Perth County, Ontario, (originally Bell's Corner) to commemorate the pioneers from Perthshire, Scotland.
		I have a strong personal feeling because I was born in Perthshire in the homeland and many of your great grandparents came to this land from Perthshire.
		Perth is a great county and in one way it is closely linked with this part of Ontario.
	my.tbaytel.net /bmartin/perth.htm (3563 words)

	New County Hotel - Perth - Discount Hotel Rooms at Orbitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Formerly a water-mill built in the 15th century, the hotel is right in the centre of Perth, just off the A9, the main road North and South.
		Holiday Inn City Centre Perth is surrounded by shops, boutiques, banks, duty free store, cafes, theatres, galleries, cinemas and just a short stroll will take you to the Central Business District or Perth's colourful restaurant and nightlife district.
		The hotel is the ideal place to stay for any visit to this beautiful city.Where in Perth can you be yourself® Be it business or leisure, your stay is sure to be an enjoyable, fulfilling experience.
	www.orbitz.com /hotel-info/FRGB/HK-NECO.html (335 words)

	News - CKNX Radio AM920
		Perth County Councillors worry applications to Ontarios Rural Infrastructure Investment Initiative will affect their success to get funding for other projects.
		Yesterday, representatives from North Perth voted against a move to apply funding to cover half the nearly $3 million cost of intersection improvements and resurfacing on Line 86.
		Perth County council has deferred going ahead with the application for the Rural Infrastructure Investment Initiative until a meeting between local mayors and MPP John Wilkinson has taken place over projects needing provincial support in Perth county.
	www.am920.ca /news.php?artID=17219 (183 words)

	Volunteers in Perth
		"Volunteers in Perth is a network of organizations in Perth County that promotes volunteerism by collaborating, educating and providing volunteer resources to the communities we serve."
		VIP gratefully acknowledges the generous support of The United Way of Perth County and The Trillium Foundation of Ontario for its financial support.
		Volunteers In Perth is not responsible for the content of any sites which may be linked to www.volunteersinperth.com or any page of our website.
	www.volunteersinperth.com (104 words)

	FedNor - Community Futures Development Corporation of Perth County Receives Industry Canada Funding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It serves a population of 73,675 located in the County of Perth, the City of Stratford and the Town of St. Marys.
		The volunteer Board of Directors of the CFDC of Perth County, made up of local residents, is responsible for reviewing, assessing and making decisions on all applications for financing.
		The CFDC of Perth County employs professional staff to work with their partners to assemble and co-ordinate the necessary skills and funds to plan and complete projects that build the foundation for a stronger local economy as envisioned in the community plan.
	fednor.ic.gc.ca /epic/internet/infednor-fednor.nsf/en/fn01816e.html (451 words)

	Open Directory - Regional: North America: Canada: Ontario: Counties and Districts: Perth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Perth County Co-operative Inc. - Livestock feed manufacturing, grain storage and marketing, sales of petroleum products, farm, lawn, garden, and pet supplies.
		Perth County GenWeb - Perth County is located in south-western Ontario and has many small towns and hamlets.
		The county is mainly rural and was one of the last areas in Ontario to be settled.
	dmoz.org /Regional/North_America/Canada/Ontario/Counties_and_Districts/Perth (342 words)

	Perth County, Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Perth County, Ontario is a census division of the Canadian province of Ontario.
		Marys are part of the census division, but both have been separated from the county's jurisdiction.
		This page was last modified 17:41, 27 September 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Perth_County,_Ontario (71 words)

	Perthshire Guide - Perth Scotland Crieff Pitlochry Auchterarder Blairgowrie
		Aberfeldy, Aberfoyle, Auchterarder, Callander, Comrie, Crieff, Dunblane, Killin, Perth and Pitlochry
		The City of Perth Scotland, compact by most standards, is the county town and also known as St John's Town or the Fair City.
		From Perth and the towns and villages Aberfeldy, Auchterarder, Blairgowrie, Crieff, Killin and Pitlochry to the rolling hills of the southern Highlands - all of Scotland in one place.
	www.perthshire-scotland.co.uk /index.html (372 words)

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