SCOTLAND, Ontario

A post village situated on the town line of Burford and Oakland. The stage road leading from Paris to Simcoe, passes through the village. It is 14 miles from Paris and 11 from Brantford. It contains tow churches Baptist and congregational. The Congregational Church was formed in 1835 and was associated with the church of the same order at Burford, under the ministry of the Rev. James Nall, who came to this country from England, under the direction of the Colonial Missionary Society. Towards the closes of the year 1843, he removed to another part of the vineyard of the Lord. After some months of spiritual destitution, the Rev. W,. F. Clarke was installed pastor, October 16, 1844, and in the spring of 1846, tendered his resignation with a view to leaving the province of Ontario. The Rev. W. H. Allworth, visited them in August 1846, and labored among them as temporary supply during the following winter. On 7 August 1847, the church invited Mr. William Hay, a graduate of the congregational College, to accept the pastoral oversight of them, and he entered upon his ministerial duties on the 13 October, and was ordained pastor on the 19 January 1848. At this date there was no church building and the members numbered 30, and were in the habit of assembling for worship in a school house. The church edifice was opened for divine service in 1849.
Since then 170 members have been added to the roll. In the spring of 1868, the Rev. W. Hay, on account of poor health resigned the pastorate, but has been recalled thereto and is now in the position which he has sustained for more than 30 years.

Dr. J. R Malcolm's grist mill contains two run of stone and is built of frame, three stories high and 30 by 50 feet.

Mr. Robert Gillespie is engaged in the manufacture of leather, harness, kip, and calf leathers are chiefly turned out here; the tannery is of frame two stories high, and 24 by 50 feet. There are 4 stores and a post office, 3 wagon and blacksmith shops, 3 coopers' shops, 1 cabinet and tin shop, a good woolen factory 30 by 36 feet, two stories, where Mr. Malcolm employs six hands in carding, cloth dressing and manufacturing custom work generally, working al seasons of the year.

A united grammar and common school, where 120 pupils are in training, 2 good hotels, the 'Scotland House Hotel', kept by Mr. P J Piley, is in first class style for the accommodation of commercial travelers and the public generally. There is in connection with the hotel a livery stable. The Commercial Hotel, kept by Mr. Jonathan Thatcher, is worthy of like patronage. Mails Daily. Population 150.

     MIDDLEPORT

A post village on the Grand River, in the township of Onondaga, six miles from Brantford, twelve from Hamilton, six from Caledonia, and twenty-five from Port Dover. The first store was opened in 1850. There is a school near the village, two churches - E Methodist and Episcopal Church of England. Mails daily.

       ALBERTON

A post village in the Township of Ancaster, on the Brantford and Hamilton Macadamized road, at the distance of 11 miles from Hamilton, and 13 from Brantford. It contains two stores and a post office, and a good hotel, 'The Rising Sun' kept by Mr. Isaac Stenabaugh, is a good house. Mails Daily. Population 60.

         S W Smith   P. M. & Merchant     Isaac Stenabaugh     prop Rising Sun Hotel

 

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