Settler of township lots: Lots 12 & 13, Conc. 5, Stanhope

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

Location: Map point is the approximate location within this irregular 32 acre waterfront Lot 12, Conc. 5 on the east side of Boshkung Lake running south from Kirks Cres from Matabanick Road. Now The Pines on Boshkung, previously Homestead Cottages.

Land acquisition: 1894 from Henry Sisson (b. 1823), his father. Ontario Land Parcel Register Book - Stanhope Concession 5 (Images 96 & 116).

Other land: Lot 12, Conc. 4, Stanhope: 1894 from Henry Sisson. Ontario Land Parcel Register Book - Stanhope Concession 4 (Image 130).

Dates of residency:

• 1883 Stanhope Directory: T M Sisson, Carnarvon Lot 13, Conc. 5
• 1883 Stanhope Voters List: Thomas Mc Sissin, owner, Lot 16, Conc. 4 which at that time was owned by Jane Grey Sisson (his mother)
• 1890 Stanhope Voters List: Thos. Mac. Sisson, owner, Lots 12, 12, 13, Conc. 4, 5, 5
• 1901 Census of Canada, Stanhope: Thomas M & Agness Sisson with 4 children and Ann Sisson, servant at Lot 12, Conc. 5
• 1901 Stanhope Voters List: Thomas M Sisson at Lot 12, Conc. 4, Lots 12 & 13, Conc. 5
• 1903 Business Directory, Stanhope: T Mac Sisson, Winston, Lot 12, Conc. 5
• 1903 Stanhope Voters List: Thos Mc Sisson, farmer, Lot 12, Conc. 4, & Lots 12 & 13, Conc. 5
• 1911 Census Thomas M Sisson at Lot 12, Con 5
• 1911 Stanhope Voters List: Thomas Mac Sisson at Lot 12, Conc. 4, and Lot 13, Conc. 5
• 1911 Stanhope Voters List: T. M. Sisson  at Lot 12, Conc. 4
• 1918 Stanhope Post Office List: Thos Mc Sisson, Carnarvon at Lot 10, Conc. 4 (error?)

Interesting facts:

The favourite sport in Stanhope’s early days was baseball. Each settlement boasted a nine, and no summer event, be it picnic, Dominion Day or the Twelfth of July, was complete without a contest between the leading teams. So enthusiastic was the Boshkung group that they thought nothing of, after a hard day’s work in the fields, walking 5 or 6 miles from the head of the lake to Guin’s Corners where the practices were held. One of the player was Mac Sisson. Source: In Quest of Yesterday by Nila Reynolds. Published by The Provisional County of Haliburton, Minden, Ontario 1973 pg. 310

Preceding landowners - all lots:

• 1877 Henry Firzsimmonds from The Crown
• 1881 Henry Sisson (his father)
• 1916 Died in Stanhope.

Succeeding landowners - all lots:

• 1922 Leigh Laverne Sisson:
  - 1918 Stanhope Post Office List Lot 12, Conc. 5
  - 1928 Stanhope Voters List at Lots 12 & 13, Conc. 5 with wife Minnie

Photo: Henry Sisson Family, 1879, Stanhope Township. Back row: Jane Gray Sisson, Clair Sisson, Emma Sisson, Emma Dawson  Middle row: Thomas "Mack" Sisson, Henry Sisson, Jim  Sisson  Front row: Elizabeth "Lizzie" Stevens, Ellen "Ellie" Sisson.