Robert Marshall Baker / Annie Hopkins

Settler of township lots: Lot 21 & 22, Conc. 1, Stanhope

Location: Map point is the approximate location within Lot 21, Conc. 1 which runs south from Baker Lake to Tulip Road north of Voicey Road.

Land acquisition: These two 86 and 92 acre lots were patented on 18 May 1885. Ontario Land Parcel Register-Stanhope (Image 240 & 242).

Dates of residency:

  • 1883 called for mail in Carnarvon. In Quest of Yesterday pg.  317
  • 1890 Stanhope Voters List: Robert Baker, owner, Lot 21, Conc. 1
  • 1891 Stanhope Voters List
  • 1893 Directory: Robert Baker, Carnarvon
  • 1899 Stanhope Directory: Robert Baker, Carnarvon
  • 1901 Census of Canada, Stanhope: Lot 21, Conc. 1
  • 1901 Stanhope Voters List: Robert Baker, farmer and Edward Page, labourer at Lot 21, Conc. 1
  • 1903 Business Directory, Stanhope: Robert Baker, Carnarvon, Lot 21, Conc. 1; also George Baker, farmer, listed as entitled to vote at Legislative Elections only.
  • 1903 Stanhope Voters List: Robert Baker, farmer, Lot 21, Conc. 1
  • 1911 Stanhope Voters List
  • 1911 Census of Canada, Stanhope: Lot 21, Conc. 1
  • 1911 Stanhope Post Office List: Lot 21, Conc. 1 Carnarvon

Interesting facts: 

Robert Baker is listed as trustee at the Zion (Carnarvon) church in the 1895 Circuit Register and Minute Book of the Stanhope Methodist Mission. Source: In Quest of Yesterday by Nila Reynolds. Published by The Provisional County of Haliburton, Minden, Ontario 1973 pg.  326

Preceding landowner: The Crown

Succeeding landowner:

  • Lot 21, Conc. 1 - 1914 to George Herbert Hawkins all 92 acres for $170. 1918 Stanhope Post Office List
  • Lot 22, Conc. 1 - 1889 William Williams for $100; 1892 Robert Ferguson for $150; 1905 willed to Robert Ferguson Jr. with all real and personal estate.

Link to Settlers of Algonquin Highlands family tree

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