HALDIMAND County

On either side of the lower Grand River, this tract formed a part of the grant to the Six Nations in 1783, and was first settled by white veterans of Butlers’ Rangers established there by Brant. The county was purchased by Treaty and opened for general settlement in 1832, and was granted local self-government in 1850. There was a considerable German element among the pioneers.


Historical Maps

All Townships available

See County Maps!


Historical Directories

All Townships available

See County Directories!


Transcribed Names

Database for each Township, or

Province-Wide Search

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Maps with Names

all Townships avail

Directories

all Townships avail

(Search Surnames at Township pages)

OGS (inactive 2014)

County Archives

more maps and names


An excerpt from The Province of Ontario: A History, 1615-1927, by Middleton, J.E. & Langdon, F., 1927, Dominion Publishing Co., Toronto




heritagePIN PROJECT DATABASES | Project Goals and Progress




HeritagePIN has a number of Name Transcription Projects on the go since 2008. The time period of study is Pre-Confederation (1867). Since Ontario's civil records program took some years to fully implement, this time period has been extended to include Ontario's documented inhabitants prior to the mid-1870's.

Transcribed surnames are searchable at each Township's page




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MAPS | project

I had been able to photograph several of the (brittle) Pre-Confederation maps at various universities and archives, and by 2016 the University of Toronto has made images available ONLINE for many more!

The names in these databases have been transcribed by me personally, and include names from the inset town maps, and indexes of subscribers, located in the margins of each map.

 
DIRECTORIES & GAZETTEERS | project


Likewise, with historical directories, names have been transcribed by eye, not by OCR (conversion to text). They include those entries for individuals living in towns and cities.

 
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES


Where maps and directories are sparse for a township, or for an early time period, the Databases are supplemented with record-sets * that show names and Concession/Lot locations *. These include early Land Grant/Patents, and Agricultural Census returns.