The folks at Legacy Family Tree Webinars will kick off this year’s O Canada series with Christine Woodcock’s presentation, Soldiers, Squatters and Settlers, on Friday, February 21, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern time.
Following the Revolutionary War, many British subjects were eager to get onto British soil and Canada was the nearest colony. Land was granted to soldiers who had remained loyal to the Crown and with the success of settlements such as Glengarry, colonizers soon realized that there was success to be had in getting immigrants to settle in the huge swath of untapped land in Upper Canada.
In this presentation we will discuss: Military Settlements, Crown & Clergy Reserves, Queen’s Bush Settlement & Wilberforce Colony, Quaker Settlements, Mennonite Settlements, Talbot Settlement, Peter Robinson Settlement, Huron Tract. We will also look at sale of treaty lands, and emigration societies in Scotland.
To watch the free live webinar, you must must register. For up to seven days afterward, the recording will be available to watch for free in the webinar library. You won’t need to register during this seven-day period. After that, the recording will be available to members only.
The next webinar in the O Canada series will be Invaded! The Fenian Raids and the Canadian Response by Kathryn Lake Hogan on April 30.
Legacy Family Tree Webinars first launched the O Canada series in 2021.
