DCHP-3

Huron Tract

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an extensive tract of land (one million acres) in western Upper Canada, opened for settlement after 1828 by the Canada Company.

Quotations

1829
. . . in such places as the great swamp in the Huron tract, they would be found most beneficial.
1832
I have, for the present, bought four hundred acres for two hundred pounds, land of superior quality, in the Huron track, London district, township Adelaide, named after the Queen, within twenty miles of Lake Huron, and thirty of Lake Erie.
1963
Little was realized from the Reserves, whether Clergy or Crown, until in 1824 the Canada Company was formed to invest in the public lands of Upper Canada, including the reserves, and to place settlers on the land of the Huron Tract.