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Southern Townships,
Victoria County, Ontario Canada
The six townships, Emily, Ops, Mariposa, Verulam,
Fenelon, and Eldon, which lie in a double tier in the southern half
of Vlctoria County, have a history somewhat different from that of
the seven townships of the north. Not only were they opened up a
generation earlier, but the natual conditions of land and soil have
given them a past development and a future destiny dissimilar to
that of Bexley, Somerville, Laxton, Carden, Digby, Dalton and
Longford. The highest usefulness of the former will always be found
in agriculture; the latter will serve coming generations best as a
land of park and forest.
The story of the Southern Townships tells of steady progress from
pioneer hardships through toil to prosperity. A general account of
the changing social and economic life of the century has already
been given in Chapter Number One. In passing now to a more intimate
account of the early settlements in each township, we shall place
against that background the actual men and women, still cherished in
local memory, who bore the brunt of pioneer stress and sacrifice.
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Southern Townships
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Victoria County, Ontario
Canada Centennial History, Watson Kirkconnell M.A., 1921
Victoria County
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