Settler of township lots: Lot 1, Conc. 5, Guilford (Stanhope area)

Location: Map point is the approximate location within this irregular, waterfront lot on the west shore of Green Lake east of the Stanhope Airport.

Land acquisition: 1907 from Isaac Bice (Boice) for $400. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Guilford (Image 2).

Other lands:

• Lots 12 & 13, Conc. 5, Stanhope: 1881 from Henry Fitzsimmonds to Henry Sisson  Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Images 96 & 116). Son Henry Clare Sisson is listed on the 1883 Stanhope Voters List as owning this property.
• Lot 32, Conc. 5, Stanhope: see Simon Bice. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Image 405).
• Lot 32, Conc. 6, Stanhope: 1916 from Thomas Archer; 1943 to Oren Fader. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Image 191)
• Lot 16, Conc. 12, Minden: 1907 from Henry Sisson. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Minden (Image 112)
• Lot 17. Conc. 12, Minden: 1888 Patent from The Crown. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Minden (Image 117).
• Lot 24, Conc. 12, Minden : 1910 from James Edward Chambers. 1919 to Thomas H & Clayton Rogers. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Minden (Image 139)

Dates of residency:

• 1883 called for mail at Carnarvon. Source: In Quest of Yesterday by Nila Reynolds. Published by The Provisional County of Haliburton, Minden, Ontario 1973 pg. 317
• 1883 Stanhope Voters List: Clare Sisson, owner, Lots 12, 12, 13, Conc. 4, 5, 5
• 1893 Minden Township Directory: C H Sisson, Carnarvon, Lot 16, Conc. 12, Minden
• 1903 Business Directory, Minden: C H Sisson, Carnarvon, Lot 16, Conc. 12, Minden
• 1911 Census of Canada, Guilford - Clare & Rachel L. Sisson Lot 1, Conc.5
• 1911 Stanhope Post Office List: Clair Sisson, Maple Lake
• 1911 Stanhope Voters List: Clair Sisson
• 1918 Stanhope Voters List: Clare Sisson, Maple Lake
• 1928 Stanhope Voters List: Clare H. Sisson, farmer, Lot 32, Conc. 6
• 1936 Death of wife Rachel Louise at Lot 1, Conc. 5, Guilford
• 1936 Henry Clair Sisson (widow of Rachel Bice) to Reginald Christisson(?)

Interesting facts:

In his 1966 Collection of Sketches, "Agriculture", Clayton Rogers writes about the importance of surplus agriculture in bringing in much needed dollars. "As many of the settlers were from the old land, and cheese a staple food, their interest turned to the manufacture of cheese. At some time about 1885-1888, a factory was erected on Lot 9, Conc. 1, Stanhope near Moorefield Acres. Machinery was installed and a good quality cheese was made for quite a few years. The project was managed on a co-operative basis all patrons being share-holders. The cheese was sold in Lindsay at the board sales and distribution made to several patrons. Among the records of payments for the year 1890 I find the following: Jno. Crawford (Bobcaygeon Road) $12; Hugh Coulter (Bobcaygeon Road) $10; Geo. Hewitt, Boshkung, $9.13; Thos. Godeson $31.31; Thos. Wells - Peterson $20.88; Noah Baily - Birch Lake $21.95; Clare Sisson, Carnarvon $11.44.

Preceding landowners:

• >1883 William Clarke Melville
• 1883 James Napolean Sawyer
• 1886 Isaac Bice (Boice)

Succeeding landowner:

• 1936 Sephrona Sisson (daughter)
• 1970 L E Fry & F W Chambers
• 1974 Brown Camping Supplies Limited

Link to Settlers of Algonquin Highlands family tree

Photo: Lake View Farm, Maple Lake. Clair and Louise Sisson. Source: John Mueller


Photo: Clair and Louise Sisson family. L. to R. back: Gladys Cook, Ivan Sisson, Sephrona Sisson, Reg Sisson, Jim Cowan; front: Claire Sisson, Louise (Bice) Sisson. Source: John Mueller



Photo 8: Clair Sisson (L) and Howard Thompson (R), both from Maple Lake. Photo from and credit to the Stanhope Museum. Photo is from a Lodge meeting of the Grand Black Chapter.