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Lucan, Ontario is a town part of Lucan-Biddulph Twp. located in Middlesex County. It is approx. 30km (18 miles) north of London, which is by far the most important urban centre in the county and arguably for all of Southwestern Ontario. The township has a total population of 4,201 as of 2001. Jump to: navigation, search Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Area 1,076,395 km² (4th) • Land 917,741 km² • Water 158,654 km² (14. ...
Middlesex County is a census division located in Western Ontario. ...
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The land in the area is almost entirely agricultural, relatviely fertile soils used for crops (grains, tobacco) and livestock. Many of the township's resdients are in employed in the same industries.
History Despite being over 500km (300 miles) to the North, in 1829, the area became a refuge for a group of free slaves from Cincinnati, Ohio who were under threat of being enslaved again, as a result of the Black Codes in Ohio. This group of roughly 200 disenfranchised blacks were granted refuge and land by the Canada Land Company and duly set up a colony named Wilberforce. This was one, if not the earliest slave refuge colony in Upper Canada and existed before emancipation. The fleeing of blacks northward into Canada beginning around this time was part of the Underground Railraod. 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
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The Black Codes were laws passed on the state and local level in the United States to restrict the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans, particularly former slaves. ...
Upper Canada Village in Morrisburg, Ontario Upper Canada is an early name for the land at the upstream end of the Saint Lawrence River in early North America – the territory south of Lake Nipissing and north of the St. ...
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Most of the blacks came from city life and did not adapt well to the harsh farming environment. Large lots of land were cleared (logged) and efforts were made to sustain the colony, but much it dwindled through the 1840's and many of the original colonists, moved on to larger, growing urban centres such as Detroit, Cleveland or Toronto to obtain wage based employment. A small number remained on to work the land through subsequent generations. This article refers to the largest city of Michigan. ...
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The area was then further logged and settled by whites, some of whom purchased farmsteads from the departing blacks or new lots sold to them cheaply by the Canada Lands Company. After this time c. 1850, the majority of the townships landholders quickly became Irish Catholics, a large number originating from then meager farming lands in County Tipperary, Ireland. Canada Lands Company Limited is a Canadian government Crown corporation. ...
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County Tipperary (Tiobraid Ãrann in Irish) is a traditional county in the Republic of Ireland, in the province of Munster. ...
A very important railway route belonging to the Grand Trunk Railway opened in 1856, passing through the town. The town and surrounding township prospered a result of quicker access to larger marketplaces, such as Toronto further to the east. Grand Trunk Railway logo or herald The Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) was a historic railway system headquartered in Montreal, Quebec which operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, as well as the U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. ...
Jump to: navigation, search 1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
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The township is probabaly most known for being the site of the brutal Feburary 1880 massacre of the infamous Black Donnellys, an immigrant family caught up in a long standing local feud. This true story has been written about countless times and is etched into the criminal history of rural Ontario. The story is also well known abouth throughout the rest of Canada. Jump to: navigation, search 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
Jump to: navigation, search Black Donnellys was the common nickname of the Donnelly family, a Canadian immigrant family from Ireland who participated in a notorious feud in the 1800s in the Biddulph Township near Lucan, Ontario. ...
The area received an influx of Dutch farmers after WWII.
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