Colborne Township
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Colborne Twp. in historical HURON Co.
Michael Fisher in 1830 bought 5,465 acres in the bend of the Maitland River and built a shanty in 1831. The first school was on Lot 5, Concession 8 and was taught by P. Gallagher.
Jesse E. Middleton, The Province of Ontario: a History: 1615-1927, published 1927
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THE ABOVE LINKS ARE BROKEN. These had been off-site links to the Archives of Ontario's RG-100 Patent Plans. In 2023 the A of O replaced the 'Archives Descriptive Database' with the 'AIMS' database. Please direct inquiries to the Archives of Ontario quoting the RG 1-100 collection and urging for restoration of *large-sized* map images. (I'm always happy to hear from you too).
The names on these maps are not transcribed for the HeritagePIN databases.
Maps at McGill University's Digital Atlas Project cover the Post-Confederation period (late for the scope of this project). Names of land-owners are transcribed at McGill's site.
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1860-61 Huron Co. / Sutherland / microfiche
1863-64 Huron Co. / Sutherland / subscr. site
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1870-71 Huron Co. / Currie / microfiche
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Find Concession/Lot Locations from the Agricultural Schedules of the Canadian national Censuses.
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Finding Aid | (enumerated, but no Ag)
Finding Aid | Search Form – LAC | see table, below
* The LAC search form is pre-set to search this District, and for Agricultural schedules only. However, these indexes are significantly incomplete. ALL IMAGES ARE AVAILABLE by page number, in the chart, above.
The 1861 Census Districts | Re: Bothwell, Cardwell & Monck
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Index – FamilySearch | Confirm – LAC | see table, below
| 1871 District | SubDistrict | Div.* | Film | Images |
| 26 Huron North | A Colborne | Div 1 | C-9930 | Link to Start |
| 26 Huron North | A Colborne | Div 2 | C-9930 | Link to Start |
* The Enumeration Division must match the corresponding Sched. 1 Personal Census.
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The 1871 Census Districts | Maps of City Wards
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| Township | Dates | Film | Images | |
| Colborne | 1842 | 8200734 | Link to Start | |
| Colborne | 1843 | 8200734 | Link to Start | |
| Colborne | 1844 | 8484326 | Link to Start | |
| Colborne | 1844 cont | 8484326 | Link to Start | |
| Colborne | 1845 | 8484327 | Link to Start | |
| Colborne | 1847 | 8484327 | Link to Start | |
| Colborne | 1848 | 8484327 | Link to Start |
NOTE: The above table is for records BEFORE 1880, only!
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Ontario Tax Assessment Rolls, 1834-1899
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Both Owners and Tenants were assessed for taxes (i.e. Freeholders and Householders).
See the Instructions to Assessors from 1847 Norfolk Co.
