Settler of township lots: Lot 29, Conc. 6, Stanhope

Link to Settlers of Algonquin Highlands family tree

Location: Map point is the approximate location within this 100 acre Lot 29, Conc. 6 running north from North Shore Road to Barry Line Rd one lot west of Stanhope Airport Road.

Land acquisition: 1880 Patent from The Crown. Ontario Land Parcel Register Book - Stanhope Concession 6 (Image 165).

Dates of residency:

• 1870 Peterborough County Directory, Stanhope: Wm O Demill Lot 29, Conc. 6
• 1881 Census of Canada, Stanhope: Wm, hunter & Ellen Demell with 3 children
• 1883 Stanhope Voters List: Willam C Demill, owner, Lot 29, Conc. 6
• 1890 Stanhope Voters List: Willam O Demill, owner, Lot 28, Conc. 6
• 1891 Stanhope Voters List: Lot 29, Conc. 6
• 1893 Stanhope Directory: W O Demill, Maple Lake
• 1899 Stanhope Directory: Lot 29, Conc. 6
• 1901 Census of Canada, Stanhope: William & Ellin J Demill, no familty at Lot 29, Conc. 6
• 1901 Stanhope Voters List: Lot 29, Conc. 6 
• 1903 Business Directory, Stanhope: Wm Demill, Maple Lake
• 1903 Stanhope Voters List: Wm Demill, farmer, Lot 29, Conc. 6
• 1905 Death: Lot 29, Conc. 6, Stanhope.
• 1911 Stanhope Voters List: Ellen Demill, widow

Interesting facts:

William Redner once kept a store on the Eldon Dawson property. Source: In Quest of Yesterday by Nila Reynolds. Published by The Provisional County of Haliburton, Minden, Ontario 1973 pg. 69

Wm Demill represented Maple Lake on the 1900 committee that merged the Maple Lake Church with the 21 member congregation at Pine Lake Church, both of which met in school houses, to build the frame Maple Lake Church at the burying ground at Clark’s Corners.  Source: Ibid. pg.  326

Preceding landowner: The Crown

Succeeding landowner:

• Lot 29, Conc. 6:
  - 1905 Duncan McPhail 23 acres
  - 1910 Eldon Dawson 80 acres. 1911 Stanhope Voters List: Lot 29, Conc. 6 (and Lot 21, Conc. 2); 1918 Stanhope Post Office List

Ellen Jane (Jones) Demill 1933 obituary. Source Lydia Coulter Scrapbook Collection, Book 1, Page 26.