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• Neal Memorial Church

  built 1911 in Port Rowan;
• Neal, Mary

  b. 1760; d. Jul 5,1841; wife of Rev. George Neal;
• McNabb, Alexander

  Methodist minister at Lundy's Lane; President of Victoria College;
• Rose, Samuel

  1838 Methodist minister on Stamford Circuit;
• Bevitt, Thomas
• Whiting, Matthew

  1838 Methodist minister on Stamford Circuit;
• Biggar family
• Howey family
• King, William Lyon Mackenzie

  Canadian Prime Minister; grandson of William Lyon Mackenzie;
• Matthews

  1837 hung in Toronto as rebel;
• Lount

  1837 hung in Toronto as rebel;
• Morse, Mrs. Marsena

  mother of Rosella Spencer;
• Garner, Ina
• Queen Victoria

  b. 1819; d. Jan 22,1901 (Isle of Wight); mother of King Edward VII; 1837 Queen of England; 1858 chose Ottawa to be capital of Canada; 1897 Diamond Jubilee of her reign;
• Lemon, John
• Morris, Mary
• Kalar, Samuel
• Kalar, William
• Johnston, John Jr.
• Johnston, John Sr.
• Korhal, William
• Wilkinson, Jacob
• Thomas, John
• Johnston, John

  1837 petition to Road Commissioners for Stamford Township;
• Our Lady of Peace Shrine

  Roman Catholic church built 1837 above Horseshoe Falls;
• St. John's Church

  Anglican church built 1837 in Stamford;
• Holy Trinity Church

  Anglican church built 1821 in Chippawa;
• Jones, Richard

  1836 Methodist minister at Lundy's Lane parsonage; 1844 elected President of Conference;
• Lord (Rev.)

  England; 1834 Methodist Conference President;
• Irvine, Alex

  1834 Methodist preacher on Stamford Circuit;
• Wright, David

  1833 Methodist preacher on Stamford Circuit;
• Dunn, Alexander Robert

  b. 1833 (York); Oct 25,1854 Canada's 1st recipient of Victoria Cross during Crimean War;
• Jacobs, Peter

  Indian;
• Evans, Ephraim

  1832-33 Methodist Minister at Lundy's Lane;
• Stoney, Edmund

  1832-33 Methodist Minister at Lundy's Lane;
• Arnold (?), Margaret
• Arnold (Col.)
• Upper Canada Academy [Victoria College]

  Methodist college in Cobourg;
• King William IV
• Stoney, Edmund

  shoemaker; missionary to the Indians; junior minister in Stamford Circuit;
• Messmore, Joseph

  family man; missionary to the Indians; Methodist minister on Stamford Circuit;
• Wilson, James

  Methodist preacher;
• Young, Mrs. George (nee Holmes)

  wife of Rev. George Young; daughter of Ninian Holmes;
• Young, George (Rev.)

  married to daughter of Ninian Holmes; Superintendent of Missions in the Canadian North-West;
• Killman family
• Baxter family
• McAfee family
• Moore family
• Burche family
• Powell family
• Lundy family
• Garner family
• Guernsey family
• Corwin family
• Shaw family
• Belton, Henry
• Snivelie family
• Jackson, James
• Bowman

  Hamilton;
• Lundy, James
• Oliphant family
• Leeming, R. (Rev.)

  1828 Anglican rector;
• Belton, Samuel

  1828 Methodist Preacher on Fort George Circuit;
• Switzer's Chapel

  Napanee; Oct 1828 1st Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada was held here;
• Watts

  author of 'Logic';
• Morse

  author of 'Geography';
• Fletcher

  author of 'Checks';
• Benson

  co-author with Clarke;
• Clarke

  co-author with Benson;
• Murray

  author of 'English Grammar';
• Milner

  co-author of 'Church Histories';
• Mosheim

  co-author of 'Church Histories';
• Corwin, Joseph

  d. Apr 19,1820 (1st person buried in Lundy's Lane cemetery);
• Mackenzie, William Lyon

  grandfather of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King; publisher of 'Colonial Adbvocate' ; gadfly of the Family Compact in Canada; forced to flee to United States;
• Strachan, John (Dr.)

  Anglican rector of Toronto;
• Ryerson, Egerton (Dr.)

  founder of Upper Canada's System of Education; 1825 Methodist preacher on Niagara Circuit; 1844 Superintendent of Schools for Canada West;
• Madden, Thomas

  Presiding Elder in Methodist Church, Niagara Circuit;
• Demorest, Thomas

  1824 Methodist preacher with Niagara Circuit;
• Bangs, Nathan

  Methodist; former Canadian;
• Hedding, Elijah

  bishop in American Methodist church;
• Case, William

  born 1780; died 1855; 1824 Presiding Elder in Methodist Church; Indian Methodist Missionary;
• Ryerson, Mehetabel

  wife of Joseph Ryerson (m. New Brunswick); mother of 6 sons and 3 daughters including John and William;
• Ryerson, William

  son of Mehetabel and Joseph Ryerson; brother to 5 brothers and 3 sisters including John; 1823 Methodist preacher with Niagara Circuit;
• Ryerson [Riesson, Ryasson], John

  son of Mehetabel and Joseph Ryerson; brother to 5 brothers and 3 sisters including William; 1822-23 junior Methodist preacher with Niagara Circuit;
• Ryerse [Ryerson], Samuel

  brother of Joseph Ryerson; fought in British army during war; part of Loyalist migration to New Brunswick; 1795 arrived in Upper Canada where his original name of Ryerson became Ryerse;
• Ryerson family

  Methodist family;
• Ryerson, Joseph

  husband of Mehetabel (m. New Brunswick); father of 6 sons and 3 daughters including John and William; brother of Samuel Ryerse; staunch Anglican; 1783 part of Loyalist migration to New Brunswick; 1799 arrived in Upper Canada with wife and 6 children;
• Adams, Ezra

  1822 senior Methodist preacher with Niagara Circuit;
• Slater

  English missionary turned Methodist preacher;
• Sweazy, Hiram
• Lawrence, George

  Virgil;
• Hay Bay Chapel

  1st Methodist Cchapel in Upper Canada, Bay of Quinte;
• Puffer, Isaac

  Methodist preacher at Bay of Quinte and 1820-22 with Niagara Circuit;
• Fife, David

  imported wheat seeds from Scotland which produced famous Red Fife wheat;
• Fife family

  1820 immigrated from Scotland to Canada; settled near Peterborough;
• Nightingale, Florence

  b. May 12,1820 (England); d. 1910; unmarried;
• Duke of Richmond

  d. 1820 (rabies following fox bite); Governor-General;
• King George III

  died January 1820; reigned for 60 yrs; also called "Farmer George";
• Wesley, Charles

  d. 1788; younger brother of John Wesley; uncle of Samuel Wesley; poet and hymn writer;
• Watts, Isaac

  wrote hymn 'O God Our Help In Ages Past';