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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YNM_district-court-house-and-gaol-1825_LOrignal-Ontario.html
In 1816 the Ottawa district was established and the Courts of Quarter Session, which at that time possessed local administrative as well as judicial authority, were held in the Township of Longueuil. In 1824 Jacob Marston donated a plot of land in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YNK_the-seigneury-of-l-orignal_LOrignal-Ontario.html
This area, the present township of Longueuil, was granted in 1674 to François Prévost, Town Major of Québec, and was the first seigneury in what is now Ontario. Known originally as the seigneury of "Pointe à L'Orignac", it was not …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YNI_the-founding-of-l-orignal_LOrignal-Ontario.html
The earliest settlers in this area, Joseph La Rocque-Brune and Raymond Duffaut, had located by 1791. Five years later Nathaniel Treadwell, a land surveyor and speculator from Plattsburgh, New York, acquired the seigneury of Pointe-à-l'Orignal, so…