Settler of township lots: South half Lot 24, Conc. 6, Stanhope

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

Location: Map point is the approximate location with this 50 acre lot on the east side of Dawson Road

Land acquisition: 1905 South 50 acres from Hugh McPhail. Ontario Land Parcel Register Book - Stanhope (Image 122).

Other land: 

• Lot 24, Conc. 5, Stanhope: 1929 from the Dawson family. Ontario Land Parcel Register Book - Stanhope Concession 5 (Image 178).
• Lots 25 & 26, Conc. 5, Stanhope: 1918 from John Grimmett - 30 & 34 acres on the North Shore of Maple Lake; 1920 to Samuel Redner. Ontario Land Parcel Register Book - Stanhope Concession 5 (Images 203 & 229).

Dates of residency:

• 1899 Stanhope Directory: Joseph Fader, Maple Lake. Lot 27, Conc. 4
• 1901 Stanhope Voters List: plus James Joseph (father) at Lots 26 & 27, Conc. 4
• 1903 Stanhope Voters List: Joseph Faider, Jr, farmer, Lot 26, Conc. 4
• 1911 Stanhope Post Office List: Lot 26, Conc. 4
• 1911 Census of Canada, Stanhope: Lot 24, Conc. 6 with first wife Laura
• 1911 Stanhope Voters List: S. pt Lot 24, Conc. 6
• 1918 Stanhope Post Office List: Lot 26, Conc. 4
• 1928 Stanhope Voters List: Lot 24, Conc. 3 & Lot 27, Conc. 7. No record of ownership

Interesting facts:

Joe Fader represented Maple Lake on the 1900 committee that merged the Maple Lake Church with the 21 member congregation at Pine Lake Church, both of which met in school houses, to build the frame Maple Lake Church at the burying ground at Clark’s Corners.  Source: In Quest of Yesterday by Nila Reynolds. Published by The Provisional County of Haliburton, Minden, Ontario 1973 pg.  326 (note: this passage may refer to his father Joseph Fader Senior)

Preceding landowner: 1873 Hugh McPhail from The Crown

Succeeding landowner:

• 1915 Laura Fader (wife)
• 1943 Leslie J. Coulter