Nelsonville, Manitoba, Canada: Specks on the Timeline

Tree: Shaun

Notes:
In 1877, Adam Nelson built a grist mill on Silver Creek marking the beginning of Nelson. The year 1882 saw Nelson an incorporated town of over 1,000 people. It was the judicial county seat for Dufferin County, and it had a land titles office, saw mill, grist mill, and cheese factory. Its weekly newspaper, The Mountaineer, was published from 1880 to 1885. Nelson was on a regular stagecoach route to Miami, Lintrathen, Campbellville, Carman, Salterville, Warrington, Lowestoft (Roland), and Opawaka. It had Anglican, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches, and supported lodges of the Masons, Orange Order, IOOF, and Royal Templars of Temperance.

The Canadian Pacific Railway bypassed Nelson in 1883 and the people gradually moved their business places and homes to other locations, the majority going the Morden. One of the buildings abandoned at the site was the courthouse which, being a substantial brick structure, could not be moved. The last building was moved away in 1905. The community was later named Dunston. In 1958 this commemorative plaque was erected in memory of the pioneers under the auspices of the Dunston community. (Source: http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/nelson.shtml)

City/Town : Latitude: 49.266745745579385, Longitude: -98.18174827034721

Birth

Matches 1 to 5 of 5

	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Birth		Person ID	Tree
1	Bell, Bessie Adelaide	2 Nov 1899	Nelsonville, Manitoba, Canada	I2388	Shaun
2	Bell, Gertrude Ann	10 Feb 1896	Nelsonville, Manitoba, Canada	I2386	Shaun
3	Bell, William Leslie	8 Jan 1898	Nelsonville, Manitoba, Canada	I2387	Shaun
4	Driver, Herbert Thomas "Nick"	18 Mar 1883	Nelsonville, Manitoba, Canada	I23	Shaun
5	Galbraith, Gertrude Tronson	14 Jan 1882	Nelsonville, Manitoba, Canada	I1713	Shaun

Marriage

Matches 1 to 1 of 1

	Family	Marriage		Family ID	Tree
1	Bell / Madill	13 Dec 1893	Nelsonville, Manitoba, Canada	F700	Shaun