Directory of the County of Peel

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Excerpt from Directory of the County of Peel: For 1873-4 The first subdivision in which this part of the country was concerned - when it formed part of the Province of Quebec - was by a proclamation of Lord Dorchester, then Governor General, dated 24th July, 1788, dividing the Province so that what was afterwards Upper Canada was divided into four districts, which, counting from the east, were named Lunenburgh, Mecklenburgh, Nassau, and Hesse. Nassau - afterwards called the Home District - extended from the mouth of the River Trent, Bay of Quinte, "so far westerly as to a north and south line intersecting the extreme projection of Long Point into Lake Erie." In the first session of the first parliament of Upper Canada the name of these districts were altered to Eastern, Midland, Home and Western. This was a pretty extensive district, and as our particular locality is not mentioned in official documents for some years afterwards, it will be necessary to take notice of some of the proceedings in other parts of the district: On the 27th July, 1793, an Act was passed fixing the places for holding the Courts of Quarter Sessions, in which it was enacted that the Courts for the Home District should be holden in the town of Newark, Niagara, and, - but this does not concern us - the Courts for the Western District at Michilimackinac! When the Province of Quebec was divided into Upper and Lower Canada, and Governor Simcoe assumed the government of Upper Canada, he issued a prolamation dated at Kingston, 16th July 1792, laying out the Province into nineteen counties, of which the County of York was one, divided into two ridings, east and west, the East Riding extending from the County of Durham to the eastern boundary of what is now the County of Peel, and the description of the West Riding is indefinite, but it is not now of much importance. It is sufficient to say that the Townships of Trafalgar, Nelson, BcAerly, and Flamborough, East and West, and some other parts of the present County of Wentworth, were united with nd formed part of the West Riding of York until the year 1816 when the Gore District was formed taking in all the Townships of the Home District, west of Toronto Township. The Home District remained in that condition until in 1852 the institution of districts was virtually abolished, and the late Home District was converted into, or represented by, the Counties of York, Ontario and Peel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.