Settler of township lots: Lot 27, Conc. 9, Stanhope

Location: Map point is the approximate location within Lot 27, Conc. 9 which is two lots north of the west end of Barry Line Road east of Alpha Lane

Land acquisition:

• 1876 Lands Liable to Taxation: Township of Stanhope Patent Register - 101 acres to John B Hunt BUT these lots have No Patent according to Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Image 259).

Other locations: Lot 13, Conc. 9: 1893 & 1899 Stanhope Directory - Hunt J. R. Boskung. Lot Closed according to Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Image 148).

Dates of residency:

• 1878 Marriage: Harriet Wyatt(1848-1912) Minden Twp
• 1879 Birth of Daughter Harriet Gertrude Hunt (1879–1905) Stanhope Township
• 1881 Birth of Son Ernest Walter Hunt (1881–1947) Haliburton
• 1881 Census of Canada, Barrie
• 1901 Census of Canada, Snowdon
• 1911 Census of Canada, New Westmister, BC

Interesting facts:

Miss Harriet Wyatt married John Robert Hunt in 1878 and set up housekeeping at Fourth Lake; their daughter was the only white child to be born at the ill fated settlement. One after another, families abandoned the struggle at Third and Forth Lakes [Cameron Lake Settlement Area] and moved away including the 3 Hunt families. Source: In Quest of Yesterday by Nila Reynolds. Published by The Provisional County of Haliburton, Minden, Ontario 1973 pgs. 320 & 321.

Preceding landowner

Succeeding landowner:

Link to Settlers of Algonquin Highlands family tree

• John Robert Hunt, b. 18 Aug 1854, Aurora d.18 Nov 1933, Chiliwack, BC
  Parents:
  • John William Hunt, b. Abt 1819, England
  • Ann Jane Myers, b. Abt 1831, England
• Harriet Wyatt, Abt 1849, England d. 15 May 1912, Vancouver, BC
• Children:
  1. Harriet Gertrude Hunt, b. 17 Sep 1879, Stanhope
  2. Ernest Walter Hunt, b. 10 Sep 1881, Minden
  3. John Edward Hunt, b. 16 Sep 1883, Haliburton
  4. William Arthur Hunt, b. 26 May 1887, Haliburton