Kincardine Township

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CHAPTER XXXII

TOWNSHIP OF KINCARDINE1

EXTRACT FROM THE REPORT OF COUNTY VALUATORS, 1901.

Image showing Bruce County Townships (1951)

“This township has a very considerable portion of rough land, broken by creeks that are very injurious, rendering agricultural pursuits difficult, many farms with scarcely a level field upon them. These remarks apply to that portion of the township south of the 6th concession. There is considerable light and sandy land in this township. Two strips cross from north to south and average from one and a half to two miles in width. There is also considerable light and stony land on the Lake Range. In buildings this township has not kept pace with adjoining municipalities, excepting the northern portion, which will compare very favorably with other parts of the county. The rate per acre for Kincardine township is $32.45. The rate per acre of village property in this township is about 34 cents”.

THE survey of Kincardine Township was not made, like that of most of the townships in the county, as a whole and at one time, but in three sections and in different years. As related in Chapter II., in 1847 Alex. Wilkinson, .P.L.S., surveyed the Lake Range lots, and in 1848-49 A. P. Brough, P.L.S., laid out the Durham Road and three concessions to the north and south of it. Then followed, in 1850, the survey of the remaining portion of the township, which included concessions four to twelve. This last survey was made, by J. W. Bridgland, P.L.S., under circumstances mentioned in Chapter V. The lands in Kincardine were among those set apart as school lands, the price of which at first was fixed by the Crown at 12s. 6d., but subsequently reduced to 10s. In Appendix H is given a copy of the advertisement offering the lands in the township for sale,2 which were among the first in the county offered for sale.

1 “Kincardine” is one of the titles of the Governor-General of Canada in office at the time the survey of the “Queen’s Bush” was made, viz., the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine. In the outline map of the proposed townships in the “Queen’s Bush” referred to in Chapter II. the name first written as that of this township was “Lambert,” while the name “Kincardine” appears on that now known as “Wallace,” in the county of Perth. These two names there show as being crossed out and the present names written in with lead-pencil. 2 The entries in the books of the Crown Land Department show that the first sale was made on August 19th, 1951, to Sam Splan, of lot 26, concession 3, S.D.R.


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