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IN 1869 Rama was separated from Mara to form it’s own township
IN 1994 Rama was again added to Mara to form the united township of Ramara
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I came across this piece about the Point Mara Kennedy family and I thought
I would share. One of my McDonald family married John Alexander Kennedy and
later lived in Manitoba.
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Submitted by Ron Zinck
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My maternal grandparents Frederick J. Smith (1878) and Margaret Ann (McMillan 1866) …
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This article researched by Carden correspondent Frances Laver
The story of Longford Township is one of tall pine timber, crashing logs on flooding waters, sturdy lumberjacks and raging forest fires. It is the story of the South Ontario lumber industry itself. It began back in May 1865 when all the land forming the township was sold to the Canadian Land and Emigration Company. Another historical move took place in 1867 when John Thomson, a lumberman, purchased it for $33,000. In 1900 the pine timber limits almost exhausted, the land was purchased by the Standard Chemical Company which sought the remaining hardwood in the country
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This research by Frances (Fox) Laver
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Article from Lindsay Post 1983
Reseached by Frances Laver
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This Articule from Carden correspondent Frances Laver FIRES OF 1881.
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Located at 5808 Kirkfield Road, just south of the Monck Road. This cemetery is on the boundary of the former Rama Township, in the former Ontario County, (now Ramara Township, Simcoe County) and Dalton Township, formerly of Victoria County, (now City of Kawartha Lakes). Interments would include individuals from both of the former Ontario and Victoria counties.
photos of the grave markers may be found at Ontario Gravemarker Gallery:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cangmg/ontario/index.htm
\Visit- Sebright Church, under Active Topics & Ramara history, to learn more about this Church and it’s cemetery.
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reprinted from the MAPLE LEAVES, journal of the Canadian Philatelic Society of Great Britain, June 1968.
Vol. 12, No. 5
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St. John’s Anglican Cemetery, on Balsam Road, west of Courtland St. in Atherley, is a small closed cemetery, with only 18 burials. The first in 1871, the last in 1894. Only a hand full of broken gravemarkers remain.
A memorial monument has been erected, honouring those who are laid to rest here.
photos of these may be found at Ontario Gravemarker Gallery:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cangmg/ontario/index.htm