Halton County, Ontario

Canada

Indian land was purchased by the British in 1805 largely to form a buffer between British North America and its newly independent neighbour. This was the basis of South Halton which was soon settled by United Empire Loyalists and by those veterans of the war of 1812 given land grants. A further purchase was made in 1818 of what was to become North Halton and the towns of Georgetown, Norval and Stewarttown.

The area of Scottish settlement (between Nassagaweya and Esquesing) is still known as the 'Scotch Block' in Halton county and although there is record of James Hume and Ronald MacDonald settling here in 1818, much of the land was purchased by John Galt's Canada Company in the 1820s and was sold cheaply to settlers through that decade and the next. The area around Nassagaweya was settled by immigrants from Islay in 1832/3, the first, John Campbell commemorated in the name given to the village of Campbellville which grew up around his sawmill.

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