Settler of township lots: Lot 10, Conc. 9, Stanhope

Link to the Cooper family on the Settlers of Algonquin Highlands family tree website

Location: Map point is Halls Lake on the west side of Hwy 35.

Land acquisition:

• 1862 Lands Liable to Taxation: Township of Stanhope Patent Register - 14 & 99 acres to Charles Hawley
• 1882 Patent for 99 acres from The Crown. Ontario Land Parcel Register Book - Stanhope Concession 9 (Image 38).

Other lands:

• Lot 10, Conc. 8, Stanhope: 1882 Patent from The Crown; 1920 to William James Cooper for $2,000; 1935 Jemima Oliver part. Ontario Land Parcel Register Book - Stanhope Concession 8 (Image 52).
• Lot 11, Conc. 8, Stanhope: there is no page in the Ontario Land Parcel Register Book
• Lot 11, Conc. 9, Stanhope: 
  - 1882 Patent from The Crown. Ontario Land Parcel Register Book - Stanhope Concession 9 (Image 103).

Dates of residency:

• 1881 Census of Canada, Stanhope:
• 1883 Stanhope Voters List: James Cooper, owner, Lots 10, 10, 11, Conc. 8, 9, 9
• 1890 Stanhope Voters List: James Cooper, owner, Lots 9, 9, 8, Conc. 10, 11, 10
• 1893 Stanhope Directory: James Cooper, Petersons Conc Lot 11, Conc. 9
• 1899 Stanhope Directory: Lot 11, Conc. 9. Boskung
• 1901 Census of Canada, Stanhope: James Cooper with son William and daughter Elizabeth at Lots 9 & 10, Conc. 10 & 11
• 1901 Stanhope Voters List: Lot 10, Conc. 8 & Lots 10 & 11, Conc. 9
• 1903 Business Directory, Stanhope: James Cooper, Halls Lake, Lot 11, Conc. 9
• 1903 Stanhope Voters List: James Cooper, farmer, Lot 10, Conc. 8 & Lots 10 & 11, Conc. 9
• 1911 Census of Canada, Stanhope: James Cooper with son William J and daughter Elizabeth E at Lot 10, Conc. 9, Stanhope
• 1911 Stanhope Voters List: Lot 9, 10 11, Conc. 8 & 9
• 1911 Stanhope Post Office List: Lot 8, Conc. 10 Halls Lake
• 1918 Stanhope Post Office List: Lot 8, Conc. 10 Halls Lake
• 1928 Death: Haliburton

Interesting facts:

This is the father of William James Cooper (b. 1885) who built Hillcrest Farm. James Cooper was a Yorkshire man who, previous to settling in Stanhope, where he used to drive the mail, had sailed the high seas in the Royal navy. Source: In Quest of Yesterday by Nila Reynolds. Published by The Provisional County of Haliburton, Minden, Ontario 1973 pg. 312 & pg. 313

James Cooper was Stanhope Clerk around 1890. Source: Ibid. pg. 310

Preceding landowner: The Crown

Succeeding landowner:

• Lots 8 & 13, Conc. 10, Lot 10, Conc. 11, Lot 9, Conc. 9, Lot 11, Conc. 8:  W. J. Cooper on 1928 Stanhope Voters List
• Lot 10, Conc. 8: 1920 William James Cooper B&S for $2,000
• Lot 10, Conc. 9: 1920 William James Cooper; 1926 Henry Webster
• Lot 11, Conc. 9: 1883 Edwin Johnston; 1908 William Johnson; 1911 William Gartshore; 1920 William James Cooper