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From: Leslie <>
Subject: Re: [ONT-LEEDS-GRENVILLE] Need everyone's help/knowledge....
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 12:18:12 -0800
References: <PAEHJMOHFOPIGHPOLMPPKEFLEJAA.janine@muskoka.com>
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/interloan/cem_leeds.htm
There is a reel you could order from the Ontario Archives
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janine" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 8:29 AM
Subject: RE: [ONT-LEEDS-GRENVILLE] Need everyone's help/knowledge....
> Well on the subject of Harlem. I am looking for information for one of our
> ancestors. He died in Harlem Feb. 14, 1911 - John Davenport McEntire. I am
> told he is buried at the Untied Church in Harlem. Would love a transcript,
> obit or anything on him.
>
> Janine
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Heather Gray [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 4:33 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [ONT-LEEDS-GRENVILLE] Need everyone's help/knowledge....
>
> Hi Max,
> Yes, Harlem does still exist. I was there last summer and actually
> living just south of it. Very small place, literally. There wasn't much
> there, a cemetery, church, I think it was still there. I'm a bit
> confused
> as I also have a couple of books on Leeds Co. and can't remember if it
> was
> in there I saw the pic of the church or actually saw it.
> I plan on going back once the snow is gone and take some pictures. Did a
> few at the cemetery but need more.
> I just took a quick look in the books I have to see if there was any
> reference to the family name Hanson. Sorry, no luck.
> Thank you for the link to the rebellion of 1837. I appreciate that very
> much. Hopefully someone knows where I'd look for a list of the militia
> of
> that time.
> Heather
>
> MAX SUTHERLAND <> wrote: Heather:
>
> No, it had nothing to do with the Irish. References of this sort in local
> histories and family histories invariably pertain to the turning out of
> the
> militia during the Rebellion of 1837 (which in Upper Canada didn't result
> in
> much danger east of Toronto).
>
> If you go to Google, call up "Canada pages" and type in "Rebellion of
> 1837",
> you'll find oodles of stuff on that event.
>
> I am interested, though, in the reference to "Harlem" in Bastard Township.
> I
> can't find it on modern Ontario maps - sounds like one of those 'vanished
> villages'. Anyone on the list familiar with it? I ask because a fine but
> unfortunate retired teacher from Lanark County was last heard from about
> 1875, asking in a letter written from "Harlem, Ontario" for a pension, and
> attaching a doctor's certificate stating he'd been diagnosed with prostate
> cancer, poor fellow. I haven't found his burial place, and not even a
> death
> registration. He was a "William Hanson", an English immigrant from the
> 1840s, but one with genuine teacher's college training. Anyone out there
> have suggestions about how to 'find' him?
>
> Max
> (Ottawa)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Heather Gray"
> To:
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 3:35 PM
> Subject: [ONT-LEEDS-GRENVILLE] Need everyone's help/knowledge....
>
>
> I am doing some work on the family "Gallagher" of Leeds Co. I recently
> came
> across the following quotation:
> "As his name would indicate, he is of Irish descent, his father coming
> to
> Canada in 1836, just in time to demonstrate his natural characteristic by
> joining the militia and taking a hand in the defence of his newly adopted
> country."
> My question(s):
> What militia would he have joined? (He settled immediately in Harlem,
> Bastard Twp.) Would there have been a reason for him to have to take "a
> hand in the defence of his newly adopted country."? The rebellion in
> 1837
> maybe? And if he did, if he was Irish, I'm right when I say that this
> rebellion had to do with the Irish? Or am I confused? I definetly need
> some guideance here.
> Can anyone help!
> Thank you so much for your time.
> Heather
>
>
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