Reference to Bishops

Page 50
  The shanty men and teamsters were drawn mostly from the middle and lower ranks of the farming 
community…..There were exceptions, of course as some did come from prosperous families: Matthew 
Reid, whose father Robert lived in a stone house near Bytown; John Bayne, the second son of the Reid's 
neighbour George who built a stone house later in the decade; and Henry Bishop who also replaced his log 
house with a stone one in 1861, using stone from his own quarry. REF = National Archives of Can – 1852 
census.

Page 109
  In the spring of 1861 nearly a hundred quarrymen and stonecutters were boarded in and about 
Bell's Corners. Henry Bishop boarded about 30 of the quarrymen who were working at Keefer's quarry on 
the Corkstown Road. He also ran a tavern, which he came to regret because of the insobriety of some of the 
workmen. Nonetheless, his fine stone house was built with the profits. REF One night a makeshift sign 
appeared proclaiming it to be "Bishop's Palace" and the name stuck. The house stood until demolished for 
the Queensway extension. Nepean 1861 census; Harmer correspondence, FW Harmer to mother, 10 March 
1861, quoted in "Old Forge Flyer" Sept 1884 13

Page 110
  Map showing R. Bishop on lot 2 Con 36, circa 1868


Reference to Collins:

Page 45
  Table 2 –Top 10 Per Cent of Farm Valuations 1861
  Samuel Collins, Location  pt 12 & 13/1 RF,  240 acres, Stone house, Valuation  $8400.00
  Source 1861 personal and agricultural census.

Page 52
  Picture of Samuel Collins house on Price of Wales Drive near Manotick, built for a son of 
Chaudiere pioneer Stephen Collins.

  At the end of the Richmond Road was Firth's tavern at the Chaudiere, but by the end of 1832 Firth 
abandoned the location and moved into Bytown. The tenth licence for 1832 was held by Stephen Collins. 
He kept a store at the Chaudiere in 1824 but had probably moved to his farm on the Rideau by 1832; we 
have not further record of him running a tavern.


Reference to Nesbitt:

Page 37
  The settlers who came into this locality in the late 1830's and early 1840's were mostly from the 
north of Ireland. A few were Anglicans, but most were Presbyterians from the northeastern counties of 
Ulster. A number are said to have come together in 1842 on the ship "Dolphin". The Nesbitts, 
Mulligans,Greers,Langs,Craigs,Davidsons and Clarks are said, rightly or wrongly to have been among the 
party. REF = Old Time Stuff column which ran on page 2 of Saturday Citizen for many years – 16 Oct 
1926.



  
Page 45
Table 2 –Top 10 Per Cent of Farm Valuations 1861
John Nesbitt, Location 11/1OF, 200 acres, Stone house, Valuation $6000.00
Source 1861 personal and agricultural census.

  
Page 150
  In 1890 the average farm in Nepean probably sheltered five cows but the numbers were 
considerably larger on the dairy farms near Ottawa. An estimated 90 dairymen supplied the city with milk 
in 1888, the majority in northeastern Nepean and northwestern Gloucester. JL Gourlay noted in 1896 the 
"Messrs. Whyte, Taylor, Caldwell, Scotts, Booth, Baynes, Nelsons, Olmsteads, Nesbitts, Clarkes, Hoppers, 
Moffats, McFarlands are largely in the milk business."

Page 192
  Cottagers subdivisions, Ottawa River 1902-1916
  Lot 11, Con 1 (OF), date of plan 1909, 1911, William and Colbourn Nesbitt


Reference to Shouldice:

Page 28
  In the interior of Nepean a number of largely Irish farming communities took root, drawing their 
populations from chain migration. Among these were a solidly Irish Catholic community in the interior of 
southern Nepean either side of the Jock River and a Kilkenny community of mixed religion in northwestern 
Nepean. The vast majority of the Jockvale Catholics were from North Tipperary. In 1818 a group of 
Protestants had come out from this part of southern Ireland under government sponsorship. Half the group 
had journeyed with their leader, Richard Talbot, to London Township , 400 miles to the west but about a 
dozen families had left the party at Montreal and come up to the Richmond military settlement where some 
had relatives among the soldiers of the 99th Regiment. Most of these families were assigned lands in 
northeastern Goulbourn, but four were place on Crown reserves in northwestern Nepean in the autumn of 
1818; James Shouldice from Castle Otway……..

Page 52:
  This was halfway between Richmond and Bytown and it was about as far as one could travel on 
foot in half a day. Robert Malcomson was keep tavern on the site of the village by this time and James 
Shouldice had been entertaining travelers since 1824 in his cabin a few hundred yards to the east. REF =
Shouldice lost his farm two years later to his creditor Wright & Sons of Hull, who sold it to John Stinson in 
1835; Shouldice moved to Wakefield Quebec. Deeds 867, 910


Page 54
  A second village, Fallowfield was located between Bell's Corners and Richmond where travelers 
journeying from Ottawa emerge from the Stony Swamp…… in 1835 James Gleeson bought three acres 
across from the church and in 1838 he sold two acres to shoe-maker Christopher Shouldice, a Protestant 
from Rathkeale, County Limerick, and a half acres to lumberman Archy Wilson in 1839. but the 
schoolhouse was erected two full lots to the south of the Smith farm ( its location determined by who was 
willing to give the land) and in 1842 Shouldice remained the only tradesman near the church.