"Ever mindful of the sparse settlement of Ontario and the threats to British prestige in Canada during the War of 1812 and more lately in the Rebellion of 1837, the government determined on a policy of road building in order that troops might be moved more quickly from one part of Upper Canada to another. The road from Canboro and Simcoe was graded for this purpose by negro labour. One of the workman is said to have been bitten by a rattlesnake in Walpole and to have died from the effects. It was the building of this road which resulted in Cayuga becoming a village rather than Indianna.
When the Hamilton and Port Dover Road was built where the two roads crossed, Jarvis sprung up."
~ The Early History of Haldimand County, John Russell Harper, Sachem Print, 1950
(1914 - 1983) b. in Oneida Twp., graduate Caledonia High School. Archaeologist, Chief Cataloguer & Registrar of ROM, Art Historian. Bio. on Wikipedia.
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