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