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Nelsonville, Manitoba, Canada



 


Tree: Shaun

Notes:
In 1877, Adam Nelson built a grist mill on Silver Creek marking the beginning of Nelson. The year 1882 saw Nelson an incorporated town of over 1,000 people. It was the judicial county seat for Dufferin County, and it had a land titles office, saw mill, grist mill, and cheese factory. Its weekly newspaper, The Mountaineer, was published from 1880 to 1885. Nelson was on a regular stagecoach route to Miami, Lintrathen, Campbellville, Carman, Salterville, Warrington, Lowestoft (Roland), and Opawaka. It had Anglican, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches, and supported lodges of the Masons, Orange Order, IOOF, and Royal Templars of Temperance.



The Canadian Pacific Railway bypassed Nelson in 1883 and the people gradually moved their business places and homes to other locations, the majority going the Morden. One of the buildings abandoned at the site was the courthouse which, being a substantial brick structure, could not be moved. The last building was moved away in 1905. The community was later named Dunston. In 1958 this commemorative plaque was erected in memory of the pioneers under the auspices of the Dunston community. (Source: http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/nelson.shtml)

City/Town : Latitude: 49.266745745579385, Longitude: -98.18174827034721


Birth

Matches 1 to 5 of 5

   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Birth    Person ID   Tree 
1 Bell, Bessie Adelaide  2 Nov 1899Nelsonville, Manitoba, Canada I2388 Shaun 
2 Bell, Gertrude Ann  10 Feb 1896Nelsonville, Manitoba, Canada I2386 Shaun 
3 Bell, William Leslie  8 Jan 1898Nelsonville, Manitoba, Canada I2387 Shaun 
4 Driver, Herbert Thomas "Nick"  18 Mar 1883Nelsonville, Manitoba, Canada I23 Shaun 
5 Galbraith, Gertrude Tronson  14 Jan 1882Nelsonville, Manitoba, Canada I1713 Shaun 

Marriage

Matches 1 to 1 of 1

   Family    Marriage    Family ID   Tree 
1 Bell / Madill  13 Dec 1893Nelsonville, Manitoba, Canada F700 Shaun 

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