Outstanding collection of Upper Canada and Province of Ontario county and township maps for researchers interested in locating their ancestors land grants and property locations. The township level settlement maps also include old pioneer roadways, railroads and waterways which were instrumental in turning the wilderness lands of the late 1700's into prosperous family farms. Site also includes rare historical information on individual county and township settlements, pioneer family names and dates of settlement.

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THE AULD NICK IN THE DOOR

In the rough old times,
In the tough old times,
    Of twenty years agone,
There was nae a clock in the settlement
    To tell how the time went on;
But we kenned very well when the day began,
    And we kenned very well when 'twas o'er,
    And our dinner-bell was the gude wife's shout,
    When the sun reached the nick in the door.

Cash, we had none, we were all alike,
    But we whacked awa' at the trees,
And when summer came, ah, then we had
    The splores at the logging bees;
The affairs o' the kirk, the affairs o' the state,
    We seldom did review,
But we talked and sang o' our native lands,
    And faix we whiles got fou.

Now fields are cleared, and every stump
    Has vanished from the ground;
And now the ladies, bless them all,
    Are hoopit round and round.
Now every house one time-piece has,
    And some have even more,
And youngsters laugh at their mother's clock-
    The guid auld nick in the door.

And now we blether politics,
    And knowing folk are we,
And some oppose and some support
    The present ministry;
But who is bought, and who is sold,
    And wherefore, why and how,
We know as well as A, B, C,
    O, what a difference now.

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