Stories that emerge from family research and local history files
Robert Gourlay assembled information on some of the Edinburgh settlers to back up his strong support for government sponsored settlement in Upper Canada to solve problems of poverty and unemployment in Britain.
Among recent publications of Lanark County Genealogical Society (LCGS) were these two volumes detailing some of the history of rural Lanark County. A third book is planned in 2023.
My connection to the Rowat family is via Christian Rowat, 1782-1846, daughter of James Rowat and Janet Stirling of Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. She married Abraham Ferrier I, and they arrived in Canada in 1815, and helped to carve the community of the Scotch Line, near Perth, Ontario, from the forests in 1816.
The settlers in the early settlement of Perth, and surrounding townships came from diverse religious backgrounds. Rev. William Bell arrived in 1817 to minister to the Scottish settlers from Edinburgh but soon decided to serve a much larger community.
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