Settler of township lots: Lot 15, Conc. 9, Stanhope

Location: Map point is the approximate location within this irregular, waterfront lot on he north shore of Halls Lake.

Land acquisition: 

• 1876 Lands Liable to Taxation: Township of Stanhope Patent Register - 86 acres to William J Suiter BUT Robert Deacon received the patent for this land in 1899. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Image 168).

Dates of residency:

• 1881 Census of Canada, Stanhope: Wm John Suitor, no family. He is widowed in this census record and living next door to his married daughter Susan and her family.
• Daughter Susan married Edward Upton; their son, James Upton, received the patent for adjacent Lot 14, Conc. 9 in 1911.

Interesting facts:

Hall's Lake is said to possess the deepest water in the County (Red Stone Lake is deeper) - in the days of the pine loggers, a drive moving a block of timber threw out its entire warping line, about 1, 000 feet, and never touched bottom. The old Suter place on this lake has its own story of buried treasure. For some years its fields were pitted with unfilled hopes abandoned by seekers and strange tales of peculiar nocturnal lights and other ghostly fllttings were rife. Source: In Quest of Yesterday by Nila Reynolds. Published by The Provisional County of Haliburton, Minden, Ontario 1973 pg. 313

Link to Settlers of Algonquin Highlands family tree

• William John Suitor, b. Abt 1813  Ireland 
• Daughter: Susan Suitor, b. Abt 1843, Ireland 
  Her husband: Edward A. Upton, b. May 1840, Canada d. 06 Apr 1902, Wisconsin, (Age ~ 61 years)