Esquesing Township was a municipality within the historic Halton County in Ontario, Canada. It is today a geographic township in the town of Halton Hills...
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Halton County, Ontario (section Historic townships)
the Nassau District, which was renamed the Home District in 1792. Esquesing Township (area 66,700 acres (104 sq mi; 270 km2)). Opened in 1819, the first...
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purchased land that later became the townships of Esquesing and Nassagaweya. The task of laying out the townships fell to Timothy Street and Abraham Nelles...
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mills, tanneries, glove makers and carriage works. Originally part of Esquesing Township, Acton's principal trade was in grain, lumber, cordwood, leather and...
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Canadian lawyer, businessman and cabinet minister. He was born in Esquesing Township (today part of Halton Hills, Ontario), the third child of Northern...
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the 1820s. Esquesing Township, of which the greatest part went to form Halton Hills, was favourably described in 1846: This is a fine township, containing...
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square kilometres (10 sq mi) of agricultural land in southwestern Esquesing Township. Sixteen Mile Creek flows through the settlement, and the present-day...
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Peninsula in Louth Township. Joseph Hilts' sons later received land grants, with William Hilts receiving one in Esquesing Township, and Edward Thompson...
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settlement was part of The Scotch Block, a large agricultural area in Esquesing Township occupied primarily by Scottish immigrants. A cemetery is located west...
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un-ne-mo-sah (possibly meaning "black dog", "dead dog", or simply "dog"). Esquesing Township: Mississauga Anishinaabe word ishkwessin, meaning "that which lies...
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