Settler of township lots: Lot 26 & 27, Conc. 6, Stanhope

Location: Map point is the approximate location within this 100 acre 27, Conc. 6 which runs south from the west end of Barry Line Road through North Shore Road to Maple Lake at Ted Carr Lane.

Land acquisition: 1886 Patent from The Crown. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Images 132 & 137).

Dates of residency: Lot 27, Conc. 6, Stanhope

• 1881 Census of Canada, Stanhope: Geo & Sarah Thompson with 3 children
• 1883 Stanhope Voters List: George Thompson, owner, Lots 26 & 27, Conc. 6
• 1890 Stanhope Voters List: George Thompson, owner, Lots 26 & 27, Conc. 6
• 1893 Stanhope Directory:
  - Matthew Thompson (son), Maple Lake Lot 26, Conc. 5
  - Robert Thompson (son), Maple Lake Lot 27, Conc. 5
• 1899 Stanhope Directory: 
  - George Thompson & Robert (son), Maple Lake
  - Matthew Thompson (son) is listed at Lot 26, Conc. 6.
• 1901 Stanhope Voters List: along with sons Robert (Farmer) and Thomas (Wage Farmer)
• 1901 Census of Canada, Stanhope: George & Sarah Thompson with 3 sons at Lot 27, Conc. 6
• 1903 Stanhope Voters List: George Thompson, owner, Lot 27, Conc. 6
• 1911 Census of Canada, Stanhope: Lot 25, Conc. 6 living with his son, William James Thompson
• 1913 Death at Lot 25, Conc. 6, Stanhope
• 1918 Stanhope Post Office List: Note: William James Thompson (son) is listed at this lot

Interesting facts:

Many who took up Bobcaygeon Road grants were discharged British Army men. George Thompson wrote of their problems with the rocky and stubborn land. If it was awarded for "good service rendered" he wondered what they gave soldiers whose conduct was bad. So hard and rock strewn was the soil, Thompson thought the veterans must have longed for their captured Crimean cannon "to shoot seeds into the ground". Source: Echoes of the Past, compiled and written by Ed H. Devitt & Nila Reynolds. Pg 19

NOTE: Another settler: George S. Thompson, (Jane Ann) a former Haliburton resident, was the author of "Up to Date or the Life of a Lumberman", n.p., 1895

Preceding landowner: The Crown

Succeeding landowner:

• Lot 26, Conc. 6: 1902 Warden & Treas. to illegible; 1921 William H. Thompson part from Samuel Reder
• Lot 27, Conc. 6: North 50 acres: 1896 Emmerson E. Thompson; 1899 George Nelson Clarke; 1915 Wesley Boice; South 66 acres: 1896 Wesley Boice

Link to Settlers of Algonquin Highlands family tree

• Edward George Thompson, b. 05 Jul 1822, Quebec, d. 22 May 1913, Maple Lake, (Age 90 years)
• Sarah Courtney,   b. 10 Sep 1834, Quebec d. 5 May 1902 Maple Lake
• Children:
  1. William James Thompson, b. Jun 1856, Quebec,  d. 13 Nov 1931, Dysart, (Age ~ 75 years)
  2. Catherine Thompson, b. 9 Apr 1858, Quebec City
  3. George Thompson, b. Abt 1861, Quebec
  4. Sarah Thompson, b. Abt 1861, Quebec
  5. Robert John Thompson, b. 1865, Quebec
  6. Mathew Thompson, b. 1867, Quebec
  7. Thomas Henry Thompson, b. Abt 1870, Guilford, d. 02 Feb 1943, Lindsay, (Age ~ 73 years)