William John Sims / Sarah Rebecca Jones
Settler of township lots: Lot 20, Conc. 3, Guilford (Stanhope area)
Location: Map point is the approximate location within this 100 acre lot on Eagle Lake Road east of Cranberry Lake.
Land acquisition: 1913 from J H Kennaway & J Campbell. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Minden (Image 110).
Dates of residency:
- 1911 Census of Canada, Guilford: William J & Sarah Sims at Lot 20, Conc. 3, Guilford
- 1921 Census of Canada, Guilford
Interesting facts:
Although the largest enterprise on Pine Lake was the Gull River mill, built in 1910 on the river at its head, there remains no scrap of machinery or stick of timber, to show that it ever existed. Bill Sims and his wife Sarah, a daughter of William Jones, kept the nearby Gull River boarding-house, sometimes feeding as many as 50 men at a sitting. The mill employed about 20 and in busy seasons one could meet 30 teams hauling slabs, bark and lumber, to Haliburton. Today, with the scream of the great saws forever silenced, the boarding-house is a private home owned by Owen Sims. Source: In Quest of Yesterday by Nila Reynolds. Published by The Provisional County of Haliburton, Minden, Ontario 1973 pg. 159
Preceding landowner: 1877 J H Kennaway & J Campbell
Succeeding landowner: 1918 William Clark
