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The pri va. te
of

from

2

soldierï¿½:

to

dr:wn lots.

500

stock;

House:

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c::n11

non-commi ï¿½.ionec'
for

surnames

for exatn.ple,
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show th2t
Anger:

Maybee:

Intermingled

the

British nativity;

army

,

with

Pu t!11an:

from having

Quakers

to hpve

to

VinrlPcker:

beco!11P.

attrRcted
some

Burger:
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solfli ers

ï¿½ettlers.

of'

ï¿½en

ï¿½tPPï¿½y influx of

R

being

taken no active part in resting

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tPTTieo

"Late Loy?..li sts"

the Pevolutiorr,

or

'Tere

Miennoni tes.

or

Quakerf

The

were

as

ï¿½ebstei&amp;

Willï¿½on;

ne&amp;rly

Cutler,

Burwellï¿½

surnames

all

of ï¿½nglish

Dennis:

H8.vens:

rescent

The Mennonites ...,.ere of Gem,;:;.n
Barnhart:

P-rï¿½nts

ï¿½r-empn

ï¿½i sha rgefl

some

cesicP.d

from the United StatE:s,

,

tl:.ey

Benner:

8y9es:

them were
who

reel ""'Ver

they vere 11e2rly all of

Anguish:

years later Simcoe's proclamation,
imigrants

off'icers

loc8tion of h'hicb

ci.

Wintcmute.

ï¿½ruikï¿½h;:ink.

by E.A.

before

anr

acres,

Their

German

eHrly 1800' s;;

,

Clirr,enh2.ga:

Nisener:

Morgentern (

1Jilhelm:

Winger:

Danner:

Fretz:

Morningstc..r)

Zavitz:

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Hahn:

Near:

spoke

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as

bare

such

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thP ncirr.eï¿½:

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and

,

origin,

-r\rï¿½Pn'Jer:

Phi sler:

of them vrote

.,..rmrn:

the

German dic.lE:ct kno1-rn as Pennsylvania. rut.ch.

aï¿½d

Hoth Mennonites
wagons.,
horses,

Quakers

travelled

from Pennsyl vanic. &amp; Nev. Jersey;
agricultural

bla.ck Rock,

townships

&amp;

settled

implel11ents &amp;

of Sugar Loaf,

and Wainfleet.
families had
The

residec'l in their new homes
of Adair,

Campbell:

th_p Vprï¿½r ï¿½t

::&gt;no

th.e

?.0jc::it"0n+,

aftcrwcir0.!3 known ï¿½ï¿½ RQÂ·nft_ierï¿½tone

Â·when the Rectory of Waterloo ï¿½...r? s

surnames

them c&lt;" +.tle,

entt::'TPfl

'They

of' ï¿½ertie,

East &amp; West;

in coverer

bringing Â·with

furniture.

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for rn.ori=:
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indicï¿½te

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consid0rable

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"ickPnzie:

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imigration froM Scotland.

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ï¿½

P.c0tt.

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The
was

negro

possible

Service.

\

and
to

coloured population hr:ic1
raise 100 men for a

grown

colourec'!

so

that in

Corns

183::'-,

in thA

it

Y&lt;ilitc&gt;ry

ï¿½,

�VICIDRIA: :

::
Stehen Jarvis aquired the farm by the Canadian side

of the International Bridge and when laying out his i?lan for the
village he gave it the name fo Victoria.
built here

Two railway stations were

: the Grand Trunk called Victoria and The Canadian Southern

called Fort erie.
The villag-ers prefere the name Riverton but it was never

1894

By I..a\Â·r 623 created the name "ILJTEPJ;JATIONAL

accepted.

In June of

BRIDGE".

The name was con sider ed too longÂ· and shortly after the village

!:le came"BRIDGEBURG".

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