by Gavin K Watt | Feb 7, 2014 | Articles, Featured
This article first appeared in the on-line forum, Redcoat Images, edited by Gregory Urwin In May of 1783 Samuel Jan Holland, Surveyor General of Quebec and the Northern District of North America, sent his Deputy Surveyor James Peachey on an assignment to lay out lots...
by Gavin K Watt | Mar 20, 2013 | Featured
Captain Duncan’s Horn Early in 2005 a powder horn came up for auction in England. It was described as having belonged to Captain Richard Duncan, our company’s commanding officer! Former Yorker, John Houlding, had a friend of his visit the auction house to...