Canada
Upper Canada now Ontario
Atkinson
William ATKINSON born 1798 in Hubberholme, Yorkshire and wife Sarah SPENCE born 1803, emigrated to Canada in 1832 and obtained a tract of land from Col. Talbot. Times were rough and William had to carry bags of grain on his back to Arnold's mill on the River Thames. They both worked hard to make a comfortable home in their small log cabin in Kent County, which is between London and Windsor near Lake Erie. William died in 1876 and Sarah in 1883. He had cleared up a large portion of his land and had become a prosperous farmer. They had 8 children, 4 had been born in Yorkshire. Two of the older children moved to Michigan in the US, the other's stayed in Kent Co. and the youngest, Thomas lived with his family on his father's homestead. He had 8 children.
Backhouse
Col. John BACKHOUSE emigrated to America from Yorkshire in 1791, then he moved to Upper Canada (Ontario). He served as a Major of the 1st. Norfolk Militia in the War of 1812, when Americans unsuccesfully tried to invade Upper Canada. He became a chairman of the Quarter Sessions, then the chief administrator of the local government. He erected a grist mill in 1798, which still stands today.Bell
Lt. Christopher James BELL RN (1795-1836) born in Kippax, Yorkshire, a veteran of the war of 1812, when the Americans planned to invade Upper Canada (Ontario), Canada. He moved to an area near the Ottawa River that he named Castleford, after the town in Yorkshire. 1829 he built a sawmill and later a gristmill at the First Chute, a 30' high falls near the Ottawa River. Castleford became the jumping off place for anyone, lumber baron or woodsman, travelling into the vast interior. He was granted 800 acres of land and played an active part in the development of Renfrew County in Ontario.Birdsall
Richard BIRDSALL born 1799 Thornton-le-dale, Yorkshire, married (1) 1821 Elizabeth Birnham of Coburg, Ontario. They had 4 daughters. Richard married (2) 1836 Charlotte Jane Everett of Belleville and they had 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died in 1852 at Baillieboro, Upper Canada. His family had planned a naval career for him but the Napoleonic Wars were over, so in 1817 Richard and his older brother, William decided to emigrate to Canada. He qualified as a land surveyor in 1819 and was hired to survey Otonabee Township in the interior of the Newcastle District. He surveyed a number of townships, including the site that would be the future town-site of Peterborough in Eastern Ontario. He purchased 920 acres of uncleared land on the shores of Rice Lake, by 1827 he had cleared and cultivated 40 acres and built a substantial frame house there. Early in 1852, while on a business trip, he contracted pneumonia and died a few days later at age 53.Carling
Thomas C. CARLING, a Methodist agricultural labourer emigrated from Yorkshire in 1818. "A farmer in Upper Canada named Tom Carling, whose home brew so pleased the officers and men of a nearby British Regiment that they persuaded him to start brewing commercially. his sons, William 18 and John, 12 were his helpers". British soldiers in Canada were entitled to 6 pints of beer a day.
This was the beginning of a brewing empire - Carling Black Label, in 1843, in London, Ontario. His son John inherited the business in 1849 and continued as president, but he left the operating of the business to his brother, William and entered politics. He became Postmaster General, under Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's First Prime Minister. John was knighted in 1893.
Crosby
Rev. Thomas CROSBY (1840-1914) born in Pickering, Yorkshire. At age 16 he emigrated with his parents to Ontario, Canada. He was a Methodist and went to British Columbia in Canada in 1863 and began to teach at the Native school in Nanaimo, BC. In 1866 he became a preacher travelling through Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and around Vancouver.
Anne Langton
Anne Langton (1804-1896) born to an aristocratic family in Yorkshire, was trained as a painter. She migrated to Upper Canada in 1837 after the family's textile business had collapsed in 1821. They could no longer afford to live at the level that had been used to.
Law
Elizabeth Ann LAW, born 1814 in Sheffield; died 1897 in Upper Canada, emigrated with her mother, Sarah Law. Elizabeth married shoemaker, James Taylor of County Meath, Ireland. She had arrived in Hamilton on Lake Ontario in 1842.
Leonard
Three youngsters were in the Leeds Moral and Industrial Training School, Leeds, Yorkshire. Martin LEONARD aged 6, Thomas LEONARD aged 5 and Frank McGARRY aged 14. They sailed on the 'SS Parisian' from Liverpool in 1988 to Quebec City, from there they were taken to Roman Catholic House of Providence in Kingston, Ontario.McGarry
See LeonardMcKee
John Wall McKEE born 1815 in Swine, Yorkshire son of Elisha and Fannie (Wall). He met and married orphan, Elizabeth Dixon 1836 in Swine. Two children were born in Yorkshire, then in 1844 the family emigrated to Ontario, Canada. 6 more children were born at their new home in East Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario. John was a farmer and prospered on the fertile land.Newton
John NEWTON born 1812 in Torry, between Leeds and Bradford, Yorkshire. Very little is known about him except what reveals in his journals and in "Sketch of My Life" that he wrote in 1842 on the ship (Hottinguer) that took him from Liverpool to New York enroute to Upper Canada (Ontario). His Irish wife Mary and son James were left in Ireland until his prospects improved. He was the son of an alcoholic, unemployed coalminer who, in 1815, decided to enlist in the army, leaving to fend for themselves a wife and 6 boys. John taught himself to read and write from a copy of the New Testament and went regularly to the local Church of England Sunday School. After reaching New York in October, 1842, Newton travelled by the Hudson River - Erie Canal route to Upper Canada, arriving in Toronto. He established himself as a schoolteacher at nearby Norval. His wife and son arrived in 1843 bringing her sister and children along with her. A daughter was born in 1844. In 1847 John built a water lime mill for the production of mortar, he founded a woollen mill in 1852, he purchased a lot in the village of Limehouse and sometime before 1877 was appointed as Justice of the Peace. He died in Limehouse in 1899 at the age of 76.
