Settler of township lots: Lots 28 & 29, Conc. 9, Stanhope

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

Location: Map point is the approximate location within Lot 28, Conc. 9 which is three lots north of the west end of Barry Line Road

Land acquisition:

• 1876 Lands Liable to Taxation: Township of Stanhope Register - 101 + 101 acres to William James Hunt
• 1876 Crown Land location certificate - 7 Jun 1876- William James Hunt

Dates of residency:

• 1879 Birth of Son George Albert Hunt (1879–1963) Haliburton
• 1881 Moved to Los Angeles

Interesting facts:

Miss Harriet Wyatt married John Robert Hunt (brother) in 1878 and set up housekeeping at Fourth Lake; their daughter was the only white child to be born at the ill fated settlement. One after another, families abandoned the struggle at Third and Forth Lakes [Cameron Lake Settlement Area] and moved away including the 3 Hunt families. Source: In Quest of Yesterday by Nila Reynolds. Published by The Provisional County of Haliburton, Minden, Ontario 1973 pgs. 320 & 321.

Preceding landowner: The Crown

Succeeding landowner: None, still Crown Land