Settler of township lot: Lot 15, Conc.14, Stanhope

Location: Map point in the approximate location within this 40 acre lot at the south end of the river flowing from Sherborne Lake to Big Hawk Lake

Land acquisiiton: 1892 Patent from The Crown for mining purposes and sold a few months later to the Rathbun Company. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Image 2)

Date of residency: No record

Interesting facts: 1871, 1891 and 1901 Censuses of Canada - James Scarth lived in Toronto and was enumerated as a Timber Merchant on the 1871 census, a Broker on the 1891 census and an Estate Agent on the 1901 census. He died in Toronto in 1902.

Preceding landowner: The Crown

Succeeding landowner:

• 1892 The Rathbun Company
• 1909 The Gull River Lumber Company
• 1933 Frederick Moffat Trustee

Link to Settlers of Algonquin Highlands family tree Not listed

• Peter Lendrum Scarth b. 1834, England d. 14 Nov 1902, Toronto. Buried Mount Pleasant Cemetery