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

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 Patent Register - 101 + 101 acres to William James Hunt BUT these lots have No Patent according to Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Images 260 & 261).

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

Succeeding landowner:

Link to Settlers of Algonquin Highlands family tree

• William James Hunt, b. 20 Jan 1850, Weston, Ontario d. 31 Dec 1928, Lethbridge, Alberta
  Parents:
  • John William Hunt, b. Abt 1819, England
  • Ann Jane Myers, b. Abt 1831, England
• Elizabeth Jane Coulter, b. 23 Nov 1849, Aurora d. 10 Dec 1920 California
• Children: They had 8 children between 1872 and 1886