Settler of township lot: Lot 19, Conc. 13, Minden (Stanhope area)

Location: Map point is the approximate location within this 97 acre lot running south from Tulip Road (the old Peterson Colonization Road) between Hwy 118 and Voicey Road.

Land acquisition: 1915 from William Chambers. Ontario Land Parcel Register Book - Minden Conc. 12 to 13  (see Image 399 in this book).

Other land: Lots 15 & 16, Conc. 2, Stanhope 1922 from Edmund Norman Brown

Dates of residency: 1915 - 1922

Interesting facts:

Allan Brown & Annie Chambers were residents of Toronto when they married in 1904, and lived there until at least 1912 when their daughter Lois was born. He was employed as a chauffeur.

In 1915 he bought this lot from his father-in-law William Chambers for $400, who took back a mortgage on the property. On the 1921 census, the family is living in Minden township & he is enumerated as a farmer.

In 1922, he sold the land back to William Chambers for the same $400 and the family moved back to Toronto where he died in 1939, and she in 1947. They are buried in Twelve Mile Lake Cemetery.

Preceding landowner: 1884 William Chambers from The Crown

Succeeding landowner: 1922 William Chambers

Link to Settlers of Algonquin Highlands family tree

• Wilmot Allan Brown, b. 24 Sep 1881, Belleville, d. 2 Jan 1939, Toronto, (Age 57 years)
• Annie Chambers, b. 25 Dec 1878, Carnarvon, d. 15 May 1947, Toronto,  (Age 68 years)