cbe report final_hr - Haliburton County Community Cooperative Inc
cbe report final_hr - Haliburton County Community Cooperative Inc
cbe report final_hr - Haliburton County Community Cooperative Inc
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MONMOUTH<br />
The potential interviewee for the township of Monmouth is, Hilda Clarke of<br />
Wilberforce, and Charlie Billings of Tory Hill. The township of Monmouth’s main village is<br />
Wilberforce. Also mentioned are the smaller villages of Hadlington, Essonville, Hotspur and<br />
North Wilberforce. The areas of interest in Glamorgan are listed below with a brief history<br />
of each site:<br />
Hadlington<br />
Named after the first settler, Mr. Joseph Hadley. He owned and operated a store, ran a<br />
sawmill and was Postmaster and had a farm.<br />
• The school building served as Church and Sunday school. Dances were also held in<br />
the schoolhouse.<br />
• In the 1900s a number of sawmills were operating.<br />
• A Metal, Siding and Shingle Company also operated at this time. During the<br />
Depression years, many of the mills closed.<br />
• Travel to Tory Hill was by horse and snowshoes.<br />
• The family names in Hadlington were Hadley, Johnson, Kelly, Klyzal, Spaffors,<br />
Jones, Flentons, LaPlante, Marshall, Forbes, Burdick, Perry, Tripp, Nandivel, Post,<br />
Burnes, Bagen, Bowlen, Woods, and Adison. They had many children, up to fifteen.<br />
Births were at home as no hospitals. (Monmouth Township 1981)<br />
Essonville<br />
Named after Daniel Esson in 1875 that became the first Postmaster. In hopes of it<br />
becoming a village they added ‘ville’ to the end. It never quite became a village, but those<br />
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