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Scotch Line

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a coession road, near Perth, Ont., where many Scots settled in the early nineteenth century.

See: concession road,English Line,line ((n.))(def. 3b),Scotch Settlement

Quotations

1828

We are sorry to learn that a teamster of the name of M'Pherson from the Scotch line, lost his span of horses and sleigh on Tuesday last, by their breaking through the ice in attempting to cross the Rideau lake at Oliver's ferry.

1842

[It was] one of the best of the roads in Lanark [County] along the Scotch line. . . .

1958

We even had a dollar left over for a livery rig to attend the strawberry festival at Burnbrae, three miles east on the Scotch Line. . . .