The Victoria County, Ontario Canada Centennial History written by Watson Kirkconnell in 1921 provides a vivid look into the details of pioneer life in the Victoria County area of Ontario. The data extracted from that manuscript which contains genealogical value has been presented here. It consists of military history and records for Victoria County and lists and biographical details of early pioneers.
- Military Records
- County Officers
- Early Pioneers
- Original Patentees, not on original farm Bexley, Ontario, Canada
- Original Patentees, not on original farm Carden, Ontario, Canada
- Original Patentees, not on original farm Dalton Township, Ontario, Canada
- Original Patentees, not on original farm Digby Township, Ontario, Canada
- Original Patentees, not on original farm Laxton Township, Ontario, Canada
- Original Patentees, not on original farm Somerville, Ontario, Canada
- Original Patentees, not on original farm, Eldon Township, Ontario, Canada
- Original Patentees, not on original farm, Fenelon Township, Ontario, Canada
- Original Patentees, not on original farm, Mariposa, Ontario, Canada
- Original Patentees, not on original farm, Ops, Ontario, Canada
- Original Patentees, not on original farm, Verulam, Ontario Canada
- Patentee Survivals in Carden, Ontario, Canada
- Patentee Survivals in Dalton Township, Ontario, Canada
- Patentee Survivals in Laxton Township, Ontario, Canada
- Patentee Survivals in Somerville, Ontario, Canada
- Patentee Survivors Eldon Township, Ontario, Canada
- Patentee Survivors Fenelon Township, Ontario, Canada
- Patentee Survivors in Mariposa, Ontario, Canada
- Patentee Survivors in Verulam, Ontario, Canada
- Patentees still in Emily, Ontario, Canada
- Persisting Pioneer Families in Emily, Ontario, Canada
- Persisting Pioneer Families Ops, Ontario, Canada
This history has been appearing serially through the Lindsay “Watchman Warder” for the past eleven months and is now issued in book form for the first time. The occasion for its preparation is, of course, the one hundredth anniversary of the opening up of Victoria county.
The difficulties of the work have been prodigious. A Victoria County Historical Society, formed twenty years ago for a similar purpose, found the field so sterile that it disbanded, leaving no records behind. Under such circumstances, I have had to dig deep. The Dominion Archives at Ottawa and the Crown Lands Department at Toronto have been systematically ransacked; libraries at Kingston, Peterborough, Lindsay, and Toronto have been consulted; the municipal records of the county have been thumbed over; scores of interviews have been secured with old and prominent citizens; and complete local press files for 47 years have been read through in their entirety. To provide a proper background of general history, over one hundred standard works on history, economics, and sociology have been studied. Every page of the book represents the results of laborious and incessant research.