Hi Bonnie, I just did a computer search for the name "Vail" in the CD of "A history of the County of Grey" and came up with 9 "hits." From a very brief review several appear to be passages directly about John. The other's. I'm guessing, are about descendants. Amongst these latter are the lists identifying the civic locations of the plots owned by the Vails. Malcolm Archive CD Books Canada Inc. Attn: Malcolm Moody - President P.O. Box 11, Manotick, Ontario, K4M 1A2, Canada. phone: (613) 692-2667 e-mail: malcolm@archivecdbooks.ca Canadian web site: http://www.archivecdbooks.ca > > From: "Dale and Ann Ward" <da.ward@sympatico.ca> > Date: 21 March 2006 10:09:19 GMT-05:00 > To: CAN-ONT-GREY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: Early travel to St. Vincent / Meaford > > > Hello Bonnie, > Have you read "A History of the County of Grey" by E. L. Marsh et al ? > On pg. 54, it mentions that John A. Vail arrived by a little boat. > Apparently the cove where he settled still bore his name up to 1999 > and may yet but 1999 was the when the 2nd edition of the book was > printed. > Ann Ward > da.ward@sympatico.ca > Brampton, Ontario > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bonnie Anderson" <bonma@rogers.com> > To: <CAN-ONT-GREY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 8:15 PM > Subject: Early travel to St. Vincent / Meaford > > >> Re: news item of about 1926 from Shelley in BC >> >> About Laurence Bowes - "Born in Ireland, he came to Canada at the age >> of 8 with his parents and made the trip to Meaford with oxen." >> >> If Lawrence was 84 in 1926, that means he arrived about 1840. An >> early 1841 Ontario map show two small settlements near Meaford, while >> the majority of settlement was shown farther south along the Great >> Lakes. My great great grandfather came from Scotland to St. Vincent >> Township about 1832. I often wondered what lured him there and how >> he got there. I have discussed it with other genealogists and have >> developed a few theories.