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Title: Report (and) proceedings
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Association of Ontario Land Surveyors
Subjects: Surveying
Publisher: (Toronto)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ed from the Mohawk Valley,New York, in the early days of the Rebellion. The Mohawks had successfully negotiated the St. LawrenceRapids in their canoes in the spring of 1784. Then paddling west-ward from Cataraqui along the quiet interior waters, the greatflotilla of canoes was seen to divide. The larger part threaded itsway along the north shore of Lake Ontario, under command ofthe venerable Chief, Brant, reaching Niagara in due time; and,later, the Reserve at Brantford. The smaller companj^ under Cap-tain John, turned the bows of their canoes but a trifle to the north,keeping in the safer inland waters. They passed round the Adol-phustown bend of the Bay of Quinte and possibly broke bread withCaptain Van Alstine and his intrepid and busy little company justbeginning their life in the wilderness. They found their home-steads at the next big bend in the Bay in the well-known Townshipof Tyendinaga, just west of Deseronto. Captain Johns Island, J138 ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO LAND SURVEYORS.
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MAP OF BAY OF QUINT E AT ADOLPHUSTOWN. PAPERS READ EARLY LANDMARKS IN UPPER CANADA. 139 • immediately in front of the Reservation, has been a well-knownlandmark of the Bay of Quinte to this day. Under date of Quebec,Dec. 19th, 1787, John Collins wrote Lord Dorchester, the Governor,that he had laid out a block of land twelve miles wide, fronting onthe Bay of Quinte, by fifteen miles deep, for the ^lohawk Indians,to which survey Captain John. Chief of the village, objected. How-ever, in good time we learn Captain John and his people were con-ciliated. To-day their descendants are a prosperous and happypeople, still living on the fertile homesrteads of their loyal ancestors. One freak of nature which has always attracted more atten-tion, perhaps, than any other landmark in the Bay of Quinte dis-trict, is the now familiar Lake on the ^Mountain. Here on thePrince Edward shore at Glenora, .just opposite Adolphustown. onthe top of a bold escarpment, is a somewhat large and extremelypicture

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