- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- St. Thomas Field Naturalist Club fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1982
- Accession Number
- 2010-09
- Storage Location
- R2 S5 Sh2 B2 F16
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�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