Settler of township lots: South half Lot 23, Conc. 6, Stanhope

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

Location: This lot runs west and south from Dawson Road including a small lake.

Land acquisition:

• 1876 Lands Liable to Taxation: Township of Stanhope Patent Register - 92 acres to John McPhail.
• BUT according to the Parcel Register Book for Concession 6 (Images 116 and 119) half was received from The Crown in 1892 by Hugh McPhail (John's father) and transferred in 1904 to Duncan McPhail (Hugh's son) and to John McPhail in 1915.

Other properties:

• Lot 29, Conc. 7, Stanhope: 1883 from Whitney W. Blott and sold the south half to Frederick McPhail (his brother) in 1896 for $200.
• Lot 20, Conc. 6, Stanhope: HIs son Daniel Henry purchased this lot in 1910 from John Herbert Sisson.

Dates of residency:

• 1875 Marriage: Stanhope
• 1881 Census of Canada, Stanhope: John & Olive McPhail with 2 children
• 1883 Stanhope Voters List: John McPhail, owner, Lot 29, Conc 6, Lot 23, Conc. 7
• 1891 Stanhope Voters List: Lot 29, Conc. 7, Stanhope
• 1890 Stanhope Voters List:John McPhail, owner, Lot 29, Conc. 7
• 1893 Stanhope Directory: John McPhail at Lot 29, Conc. 7; Hugh McPhail (his father?) at Lot 23, Conc. 6
• 1901 Census of Canada, Stanhope: John & Olive McPhail with 5 children at Lot 20, Conc. 5 (error?)
• 1901 Stanhope Voters List: Lot 20, Conc. 6
• 1903 Business Directory, Stanhope: John McPhail, Winston, Lot 20, Conc. 6
• 1903 Stanhope Voters List: John McPhail, farmer, Lot 20, Conc. 6
• 1911 Stanhope Voters List
• 1911 Census of Canada, Stanhope: John & Olive McPhail, Lot23, Con 6.
• 1911 Stanhope Post Office List
• 1916 Died at Lot 23, Conc. 6, Stanhope.
• 1918 Stanhope Post Office List

Interesting facts:

From Canadian Post (Lindsay, ONT), 29 May 1891:
MINDEN. Burned by Bush Fires: Mr. John McPhail of Stanhope, while drawing a load of hay in the neighbourhood of some bush fires had the misfortune to lose both is hay and wagon. The fire caught in the hay and both it and the wagon were destroyed, nothing remaining but a little pile of burnt iron on the road.

Preceding landowner: 1873 Hugh McPhail from The Crown 

Succeeding landowner:

• 1904 Peter Frederick Dawson
• 1912 John McPhail
• 1916 Olive McPhail

Photo 1: Left to Right - Olive (Demill) McPhail and James, Luella and Mary Elizabeth (Demill) Sawyer. Source: Dorothy Rivers/John Mueller

Photo 2: John and Olive McPhail children - back: Annie, Violet, Sarah; front: Daniel, James, Delbert. Source: John Mueller