Waterloo Township map with names of early property owners
Description
- Creator
- Ellis Little, Artist
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Drawings
- Description
- Hand drawn maps of early Waterloo township with the names of property owners and approximate dates of ownership.
This map shows part of Kitchener, north of the early settlement of German Mills. Mill street (becomes Courtland avenue, then Fairway road) on the left and the early city limits on the right. Area depicted is north of present day Manitou and Fairway road. - Notes
- These maps are hand drawn by Ellis Little and outline over 90000 acres of land granted (Block 2, Waterloo Township) to the Six Nations Indians by the British Crown in 1784 and sold in 1798 to Richard Beasley, James Wilson and John Baptist Rousseaux who looked to resell the land in small parcels. The German Company tract became Waterloo township.
German Mills was slightly north of where Doon Heritage Crossroads is located today. It was situated along present-day Manitou Drive in Kitchener, about .3 km. south of present-day Fairway Road. A saw mill on Schneider Creek existed on this site from 1812, established by Philip Bliehm. A plan for the village of Edinburgh (or Edenburg), an early name for the village, was drawn in 1857; the village never had a post office. Other early and unofficial names for the village were Bleam's Mills, Hopewell Mills and Jewsburg. From 1857, German Mills was a stop on the Doon-to-Berlin Preston & Berlin Railway (later the Grand Trunk Railroad) until that branch line closed in the 1950s.
Modern streets not always identified; maps are not to scale and geographic locations are approximate. Names of property owners on reverse.
See also: "Historical Atlas of Waterloo & Wellington Counties, 1877-1881"; Waterloo Historical Society 1965, pp 44-45 for 1805 Waterloo Township (German company tract) lot map with property owner's names; and Waterloo Regional Museum website for further information.
- Dimensions
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Width: 20 cm
Height: 25 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 20cm
Image Height: 25cm
- Subject(s)
- Bricker, Samuel
Erb, Abraham
Snyder, Daniel
Kitchener (Ont.)
Miller, John
Johnston, William
German Company Tract (Waterloo, Ont.)
Erb, John
Wissler, Jacob
Shantz, Christian
German Mills (Waterloo, Ont.)
Shantz, Isaac Y.
Bowman, Benjamin
Bowman, Jonathan
Erb, Peter
Bowman, Joseph
Shupe, Adam
Snyder, Joseph
Eby, George
Sheirich, Mathias
Erb, Samuel
Sheirich, John
Histand, George
Weber, Daniel
Rickhart, Philip
Lutz, Jacob
Rickhart, Jacob
Thompson, Hugh
Corall, William
Kaufman, Andrew
Shantz, Noah
Shantz, Eli
Cornell, William - Local identifier
- ELP 50 50
- Collection
- Ellis Little Papers
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Latitude: 43.425871 Longitude: -80.460176
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