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and built a sawmill, This
was the a requirement for
•Obtaining free• grant of 2Q0
acres•of land. •
In 1858,.Ralph Miller .
purchaseda.small portion
of Mr, "Stauffer's land and
built a logtavern known
as "'Balaclava Ruse by
Which the settlement was•
first known., but only
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briefly. A manby the
name of James
Sommerville affixed his
signature as a.rvitness to
' this agreement:_
In the Wanner of I858,�
Somerville purchased the
Stauffer mill and .the land
and had the property sur-
veyed into village lots. By
this survey, Stauffer
becaine known as. :the.
"Father of Lucknow." The
plan was registered. in
September of 1858.
The. name • Lucknow
was given to the new .set-
tlement in memory of the
• memorable .events' associ-
ated with the city ..cif
Lttcknow, .India during the
quelling of the Indian
Mutiny there by two
Scottish regiments
Obvious y,,Somerville's•
Scottish blood must have
thrilled at the tales of the
troop's' of his homeland
battling the native rebels .
in Indra. . .
$y.theyear.'1866, the
population of the young -
Village of Lucknow was
some 430 'residents.
Our first merchant
The first .merchant: in
the newly. for.''ed settle-
••
'tient of Lucknow was-
Malcolm
wasMalcolm Campbell. Ms.
wife ; was Margaret
Armstrong,. Natives •of
"Scotland, they were mar
tied in Canadain 1849 and .
camp to Ltpeknow in 1858 .
just- before the settlement
was• officially,. named.
Margaret's father, Walter
Armstrong,was ;also -a
' merchant having settled
east of Lucknow'in West
Wawazosb a short time'
earlier.
As • well as being
Lucknow's first merchant,
. Malcolm CanipbeJl, was..
•also the first postmaster,
the post office being..
established in 1859. Mr..
Campbell also had the dis}
tinction of being
Lueknow's first reeve..
Incorporation
Five years after. the.
founding of the settlentent,
in 1863, Lu`cknow became ,
a police:v llage upon a
petition of 24: citizena
being presented to the
United Counties Council
(Huron,' Perth and, Bruce).%
It wasn't' until 10 years
later, in 1873, that the
municipality was incorpo
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