William Cook
Settler of township lots: Lot 23, Conc. 12, Minden (Stanhope area)
Location: Map point is the approximate location within this 94 acre lot running one lot south of Tulip Road, east of Duck Lake Road/Voicey Road
Land acquisition: 1910 Patent from The Crown. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Minden (Image 134).
Other land: Lots 23 & 24, Conc. 10, Minden - 1875 Patent from The Crown; 1893 to Holden Cook; 1903 to William Wansley;1930 to Floyd Henderson. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Minden (Images 185 & 189).
Dates of residency:
- 1871 Minden Directory: William Cook, 10 half 24
- 1878 Minden township voters' list shows William Cook in the vicinity of Blairhampton. Source: In Quest of Yesterday by Nila Reynolds. Published by The Provisional County of Haliburton, Minden, Ontario 1973 pg. 282
- 1893 Minden Township Directory: Wm Cook, Blairhampton
- 1903 Business Directory, Minden: Wm Cook, Blairhampton, Lot 24, Conc. 10
- 1911 Census of Canada - William listed as father under Holden Cook. Lots 23 and 24, Conc. 11 and 12, Minden
- 1917 Death: Blairhampton at Lot 22, Conc. 10, Minden
Interesting facts:
Preceding landowner: The Crown
Succeeding landowner:
- 1910 son Holden Cook
- 1920 Thomas Henry Woods
- 1925 George Nesbitt