Settler of township lots: Lots 24 & 25, Conc. 2, Stanhope

Link to the Cook family on the Settlers of Algonquin Highlands Family Tree website

Location: Map point is the approximate location within the 100 acre Lot 25, Conc. 2 east of 25th Line Road south of Hwy 118.

Land acquisition: 

• Lot 24, Conc. 2: Purchased from Mathew Johnston in 1889. Ontario Land Parcel Register index - Stanhope Concession 2 (Image 24).
• Lot 25, Conc. 2: Purchase from Mathew Johnston in 1889  Ontario Land Parcel Register Index - Stanhope Concession 2 (Image 25).

Dates of residency:

• 1883 called for mail in Carnarvon. Source: In Quest of Yesterday by Nila Reynolds. Pg 317
• 1890 Stanhope Voters List: Joseph Cook, owner, Lots 24 & 25, Conc. 2
• 1891 Stanhope Voters List: Lots 24 & 25, Conc. 2
• 1901 Census of Canada, Stanhope: Lots 24 & 25, Conc. 2
• 1903 Business Directory, Stanhope: Joseph Cook, Carnarvon, Lot 25, Conc. 2
• 1903 Stanhope Voters List: Joseph Cook, farmer, Lots 24 & 25, Conc. 2
• 1911 Census of Canada, Stanhope: Lot 24, Conc. 2
• 1901 Stanhope Voters List: Lots 24 & 25, Conc. 2
• 1911 Stanhope Voters List: Lots 24 & 25, Conc. 2
• 1911 Stanhope Township Post Office List: Lot 24, Conc. 2
• 1918 Stanhope Township Post Office List: Lot 23 Conc. 2

Interesting facts:

Joseph Cook was the Sunday school superintendent at the "Twentieth Century Church" which today serves the United church congregation at Maple Lake. Cook later worked with new congregations at Blairhampton, Maple Lake, and in a the 1920'a helped start a Baptist Sunday church at West Guilford. Source: In Quest of Yesterday by Nila Reynolds. pg. 325-26.

Preceding landowner:

• 1883 & 1884 Matthew Johnston

Succeeding landowner:

• Lot 24 & 25, Con 2 - 1908 - South half of both lots to John Cowan
• Lot 24 & 25, Con 2 - 1918 - North half of both lots to son-in-law James Fader & Ethel (Cook) Fader