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Egmondville
Local resident uncovers history in
(Nov. 23, 1923 Expositor)
Information about the early history cif
Egmondville and area can be learned by
reading any one of several books by Isabelle
Campbell. Few other sources capture Eg-
mondville as it was, or in reality how it
wasn't, in and around 1850.
"Egmondville, or Ross as John Galt chose
to call it, had a dam and a mill, to the east. It
was being built by the Canada Company. By
1833 it was being used by settlers beyond the
Mill community." - taken from a passage in
From Forest to Thriving Hamlets by Isabelle
Campbell.
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A few years dater Colonel Anthony Van
Egmond's sons, Constant and Leopold,
acquired the grist mill, sawmill and distillery.
In 1837 Colonel Van Egmond began writing
of his experiences with the Canada Company.
He told of the promise the company had made
him regarding 200 acres of land for a church
and a school for the settlement. Trusting the
company to keep its word, he proceeded to
clear four acres of land, build a schoolhouse,
employ a schoolteacher and pay his salary for
two years. The settlement was named
Egrr»�ondville.
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the company went back on its word. It refused
to give Van Egmond the land it had promised
him. After that happened little progress was
made for a few years.
Constant Louis Van Egmond, the colonel's
eldest son finished developing the hamlet in
1845. For many years the larger businesses
were under the control of the Van Egmond
family.
Constant owned the grist mill, flour mill
and distillery. Leopold owned the sawmill,
the third brother William was the proprietor
of the American Hotel, and August, the
fourth Van Egmond brother, was in charge of
er books
the woollen mill. Other business establish-
ments began to open in Egmondville in 1845.
They opened by the dozen. Stores, black-
smith shops, taverns, shoe shops, a brewery
and a foundry all flourished.
The foundry in Egmondville was owned by
Robert Watson and Peter .:awtinhamer. At
the foundry they made stoves, ploughs,
cultivators and threshing machines. There
were other small businesses in the 1850s or
1860s that are not mentioned elsewhere:
William Badger and brothers, potash and
soap factory; Martin Rudolph, manufacturer
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