The limestone farmhouse built by Frances Gillan in the 1850’s. Now operating a B&B and Farm Museum, the descendants of Gillans of Longford, Ireland have the original offer of purchase, dated October 18th, 1836. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, July, 2008
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Irish immigrants began arriving in North Albion about 1825 and the community of Sleswick had been established by the 1850’s. Surveyed after 1819, the New Survey was arranged in a new “double front” system whereby the traditional 200-acre rectangular lots were split and patented as square 100-acre half-lots, affording each owner frontage on a Concession road. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, April 2011