o Lake and e into ait.e o£ Port s �The earliest known European to settle i n what is now Elgin Coun t y was James Fleming who settled on the river front or LOt 6, Aldborough Township in 1796 ())p . )6. Seven years later, on May 21 , 180), Colonel Thomas Talbot landed at (the now) Talbot Creek and be an settl m nt of Dunwich Township in earnest. Ennatinger, in his classic history "The Talbot Regime" gives pioneer accounts of t he animal. life ncounter d by these early settlers. ith great insi ght

o Lake and e into ait.e o£ Port s �The earliest known European to settle i n what is now Elgin Coun t y was James Fleming who settled on the river front or LOt 6, Aldborough Township in 1796 ())p . )6. Seven years later, on May 21 , 180), Colonel Thomas Talbot landed at (the now) Talbot Creek and be an settl m nt of Dunwich Township in earnest. Ennatinger, in his classic history "The Talbot Regime" gives pioneer accounts of t he animal. life ncounter d by these early settlers. ith great insi ght

assistant 'to Hon. James G. Gardiner, Dominion minister of agriculture, and Harry Allen, Legislative representative for West Middlesex, among those in attendance. Mr. Burwell is the great-grand-· son of Colonel Mahlon Burwell, contemporary of Colonel Thomas Talbot, founder of the Talbot Settlement, and the pioneer road- maker for whom Port Burwell was named. His father was the second Mahlon Burwell in that direct line, the son of Isaac Broc~ Burwell, who was the son oi Colonel Mahlon Burwell. He was

Corners. Mary Storey purchased her land from Colonel Talbot for two barley corns, and part of the land that she donated for the church and burial ground was deeded to the Bishop of Quebec. The first burial was that of Matthew Stuart in 1825. Colonel Thomas Talbot died on February 6, 1853, at eighty-three and was laid to rest among the settlers of the district. The good folk of the Methodist denomination, having a desire to have their own place of worship, got together and erected a frame ediface in

Corners. Mary Storey purchased her land from Colonel Talbot for two barley corns, and part of the land that she donated for the church and burial ground was deeded to the Bishop of Quebec. The first burial was that of Matthew Stuart in 1825. Colonel Thomas Talbot died on February 6, 1853, at eighty-three and was laid to rest among the settlers of the district. The good folk of the Methodist denomination, having a desire to have their own place of worship, got together and erected a frame ediface in

made the road as they followed him at the rate of two to three miles a day. Garrett Oakes wrote in 1877 with a feeling of bitterness about all the help that Colonel Bostwick received in the surveying and the opening of roads. "In 1804, the colonel (Thomas Talbot, czar of the Talbot settlement) had the grant of $1,000 from the government to make a road from Waterford to Port Talbot. He engaged John Bostwick, a surveyor at Woodhouse, to make the road, who hired an Indian acquainted with the whole route

made the road as they followed him at the rate of two to three miles a day. Garrett Oakes wrote in 1877 with a feeling of bitterness about all the help that Colonel Bostwick received in the surveying and the opening of roads. "In 1804, the colonel (Thomas Talbot, czar of the Talbot settlement) had the grant of $1,000 from the government to make a road from Waterford to Port Talbot. He engaged John Bostwick, a surveyor at Woodhouse, to make the road, who hired an Indian acquainted with the whole route