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In -Norman -Robertson! "
tory .of: the ,County of Bruce",
published in 1906, he makes the
. following reference- to K.inlough,,
v r uch is this week -end 'officially
observing - its one: hundredth
birthday,
, . `•`Kinlough, two milesand.. a
half south • of Kinloss Post4 Office,
is. ° the, larger village of the two
It began. IO take forma' in. 1857,
When, John' Scott , opened.* a store
there. Shortly afterwards Simon
•
'Corrigan helped to centralize
13tsiness , by starting a sawmill
and also .an hotel. Upon a post
office Abeing =established in 1864
he, was ' appointed . 'postmaster.
The ' Village at present ;boasts of
a;.`;handsome schoolhouse, .lately
erected, and three :' ; churches 4)) flan,
hurches4byterian, • Methodist, ., a n d
-Chrirch ° of ' England".
While the, first survey of •;Ken-'
loss Townshi was made ago
pthe •,extreme
Concession . 1, at
south, development of the Town_
ship switched to'.., the 'northerly.
art.
The southern . survey, was made
lit.1847 by Alex •Wilkinson,
- Two years later in the winter of Road.
1849-50:EliJoel`'Stauffer came to
what is' now Luoknow as the first
'settler. •�
About that .same time, . 1849,
the Durham Road' and the :ad-
lacent • "Free Grant". .lots were.
surveyed by A. P. Brough, . PL.S.--
It; was: three ,-years. later before
the remainder of the ,Township
utas su greyed,
• The' ."Free; Grant"„ lands' were
opened for settlement;: in 1849;
'And ' the first settlers came in
1850. Anong them were Joel Eli
Stauffer, who •: