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Pioneers and their land HAGERMAN TOWNSHIP was named after Judge Christopher Alexander Hagerman who died in 1847. The Township land consists of 45,859 land acres and 3,577 acres of water. Timber rights were sold for $2,859.00 per square mile. A peculiar type of limestone existed here and there throughout the township. The inaugural meeting of Hagerman Township was held May 17th, 1890 with Dave Patterson acting as pro term clerk. The first council meeting was held June 28, 1890. First Reeve was James Bayne, the first clerk for council was Frank N. Macfie. Pioneers Mr. George Kelcey emmigrated to Canada from Dunchurch, England in 1870. He acquired 600 acres on Whitestone Lake near the narrows. The Kelceys had a large family. The oldest son George, moved to the United States and in 1946 he founded a firm of engineers and consultants, now grown to a professional and technical staff of 350. Jenny, the youngest daughter married Herbert White and moved to Elmonte, California. George Kelcey died June 17, 1884. Ann Kelcey died January 3, 1899. They are buried in Fairhome Cemetery. In the early days the name Newcombe was attached to the settlement but later when the mails came regularly to the Kelcey Post Office, they discovered there was another place by the same name and the mail often went astray. It was therefore necessary to change the name - and the Kelceys named our village Dunchurch after their home in Rugby, England. Mr. Arthur Millin owned a large portion of the lots on the East side of Dunchurch and some on the other. Mr. and Mrs. A. Millin came from "Muddy York" Toronto with a family of six children. They came by boat across Georgian Bay and then on to the present Dunchurch in September 1870. Mary Millin married Frank Macfie and pioneered in Sunnyslope, their farm is one of the Century Farms in this Township. After some years the Millin family went to the Prairies to live. Names of more pioneer families can be found in the books "Along Memory Lane with Hagerman People", for they are too numerous to mention here.