Sir William Pearce Howland,served as the second Lieutenant Governor of Ontario,from 1868 to 1873. As a member of the Executive Council of the Province of Canada from November 1864 to 1867,he was one of the Fathers of Confederation who attended the London Conference of 1866.
Port Arthur was a city in Northern Ontario,Canada,located on Lake Superior. In January 1970,it amalgamated with Fort William and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre to form the city of Thunder Bay.
Tillsonburg is a town in Oxford County,Ontario,Canada with a population of 18,615 located about 50 kilometres southeast of London,on Highway 3 at the junction of Highway 19.
Oxford County is a regional municipality in the Canadian province of Ontario. Highway 401 runs east–west through the centre of the county,creating an urban industrial corridor with more than half the county's population,spanning 25 km between the Toyota auto assembly plant in Woodstock and the CAMI General Motors auto assembly plant in Ingersoll. The local economy is otherwise dominated by agriculture,especially the dairy industry.
Sir Samuel Henry Strong was a lawyer and the third Chief Justice of Canada.
Simon James Dawson was a Canadian civil engineer and politician.
Ernest D'Israeli Smith was a Canadian businessman and politician who founded a food company that bears his name.
South-West Oxford is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario,located within Oxford County. The township had a population of 7,664 in the 2016 Canadian census. A predominantly rural municipality,South-West Oxford was formed in 1975 through the amalgamation of Dereham and West Oxford townships and the village of Beachville.
Annandale National Historic Site is a National Historic Site of Canada located in Tillsonburg,Ontario,Canada. It was built in 1880 by Edwin Delevan Tillson,and his wife Mary Ann as part of Mr. Tillson's retirement project,Annandale Farm. The Tillsons moved into the house in 1883. The interior of Annandale House is a living monument to the Victorian style of design,known as the "Aesthetic Art Movement."
Janet Robertson (Chisholm) Lee (1862–1940) was an important figure in the Niagara Region of Canada,best known for her role in the formation of the Women's Institutes in 1897,and for pioneering the Kindergarten program in Hamilton,Ontario.
Tillson Lever Harrison was a Canadian physician,army officer and adventurer. Moving to New York and enlisting in the United States Army at an early age,he later returned to Canada to attend the University of Toronto before practising as a physician in a number of dangerous positions,such as the Chief of Medical Staff to Pancho Villa and the doctor for the Chinese Labour Corps,a workforce of over 200,000 men. After World War I,he traveled throughout the Middle East,treating venereal disease and operating an X-ray facility in Lod,Mandatory Palestine.
Norfolk County in the Canadian province of Ontario consists of a long list of communities. Its four designated population centres are Simcoe,Port Dover,Delhi,and Waterford.
Victor Albert Sinclair was a lawyer and political figure in Ontario. He represented Oxford South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1914 to 1919 as a Conservative member.
Hubert-Charron Cabana was a Canadian lawyer,journalist,politician,and office holder.
Jacob Yost Shantz was a Mennonite farmer,businessman,and industrialist from Ontario,Canada. He played a significant role in the urban development of Berlin,Ontario,where he held a succession of civic roles over a period of almost three decades,culminating in a term as mayor in 1882. Over the span of his life,Berlin was transformed from a rural agricultural settlement known as Ebytown into a bustling manufacturing centre;this was a change mirrored by Shantz,who began his adult life as a farmer and sawmiller,and ended it as a prominent local industrialist.
Edward John Barker Pense was a newspaper editor and owner and a politician in Ontario,Canada. He represented Kingston in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1901 to 1908 as a Liberal. Pense was mayor of Kingston in 1881.
Edward Wilkes Rathbun was an American-born entrepreneur and political figure in Ontario,Canada.
Henry Stark Howland was a businessman and founder of the Imperial Bank of Canada in 1873.
Ely Playter (1776–1858) was a farmer,lumberman,militia officer,and member of the Upper Canada House of Assembly,who lived in and around York,modern day Toronto.
George E. Tillson was an industrialist best known for founding the town of Tillsonburg.
