Settler of township lots: Lot 15, Conc. 4, Stanhope

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

Location: Map point is the 102 acre lot running north from North Shore Drive between Burgundy Drive and Dominion Road. Now Algonquin Highlands Municipal Office.

Land acquisition: 1886 Patent from The Crown for 102 acres. Ontario Land Parcel Register Book - Stanhope Concession 4 (Image 185).

Other land:

• Lots 15 & 16, Conc. 3 were purchased from Robert Ferguson in 1893. Ontario Land Parcel Register Book - Stanhope Concession 3 (Lots 15,& 16, Conc. 3 - Images 221 &  271) 
• Lot 17, Conc. 3 was purchased from Richard Bailey in 1873. Ontario Land Parcel Register Book - Stanhope Concession 3 (Lot 17, Conc. 3 - Image 298)
• Lot 16, Conc. 4 was purchased from Jane Grey Sisson (his sister) in 1910. Ontario Land Parcel Register Book - Stanhope Concession 4 (Image 191). See Oscar Sisson House (Mountainside Farm).

Dates of residency:

• 1883 Stanhope Voters List: James H Sissin, owner, Lot 15, Conc. 4
• 1890 Stanhope Voters List: Henry Sisson, owner, Lots 15 & 16, Conc. 5
• 1893 Stanhope Directory: J H Sisson, Carnarvon Lot 16, Conc. 4, Stanhope
• 1899 Stanhope Directory: J H Sisson, Carnarvon Lot 16, Conc. 4, Stanhope
• 1901 Census of Canada, Stanhope: James & Emma Sisson with 5 children at Lots 15 & 16, Conc. 3 & 4
• 1901 Stanhope Voters List: Lots 15 & 16, Conc. 3 & 4, Stanhope 
• 1903 Business Directory, Stanhope: J H Sisson, Carnarvon, Lot 16, Conc. 4
• 1903 Stanhope Voters List: James H Sisson, farmer, Lots 15, 12, 15, 16, 17, Conc. 3, 4
• 1911 Census of Canada, Stanhope: Lot 16, Conc. 4, Stanhope James & Emma Sisson
• 1911 Stanhope Voters List: Lot 15, Conc. 3 & Lot 16 & op, Conc. 4; son Oscar Sisson also listed at Lot 15, Conc. 3
• 1918 Death: Maple Lake

Interesting facts:

The favourite sport in Stanhope’s early days was baseball. Each settlement boasted a nine, and no summer event, be it picnic, Dominion Day or the Twelfth of July, was complete without a contest between the leading teams. So enthusiastic was the Boshkung group that they thought nothing of, after a hard day’s work in the fields, walking 5 or 6 miles from the head of the lake to Guinn’s Corners where the practices were held. One of the players was Jimmy Sisson. Source: In Quest of Yesterday by Nila Reynolds. Published by The Provisional County of Haliburton, Minden, Ontario 1973 pg. 310

Preceding landowner:

• Lots 15 & 16, Conc. 5: The Crown
• Lots 15 & 16, Conc. 3:  Purchased from Robert Ferguson in 1893.
• Lot 17, Conc. 3: Purchased from Richard Bailey in 1873.

Succeeding landowner:

• Lot 15, Conc. 3: 1917 Oscar, James Allen & Harry Wilbert Sisson (sons).
  - Oscar, Allen & Harry Sisson was also listed at Lot 15, Conc. 3 on the 1911 & 1928 Stanhope Voters Lists
• Lots 16 & 17, Conc. 3: 1917 James Allen Sisson.

Photo:Jane Gray Sisson Clair Sisson Emma Sisson Emma Dawson Thomas Mack Sisson Henry Sisson Jim Sisson Elizabeth Lizzie Sisson Ellen E 1879.