HI Karen: I'm not sure where you are from or how much knowledge you have of Canadian history. I just wrote a short article about the Canada Company for a local newsletter, so I can tell you a bit of it's history. The Canada Company was a colonization corporation found in 1826. There were four such companies that I am aware of--two were French and two, English. Canada Company was one of the English corporations and the other was the British American Land Company. These companies would by up hugh grants of land from the British government and then advertise in pamphlets and brochures in the mother countries for potential buyers. The Canada Company purchased a hugh tract of land that was called the Huron Tract and a lot of clerical and crown land. These clerical and crown lands were all over the Province of Ontario and are the pieces of properties that were sold in the Durham County area. My ggg grandfather, Henry McBrien and his son, Edward both purchased lots in Whitby Township from the Canada Company. The Huron Tract was about a million acres of land along Lake Huron. The Company had this tract surveyed and divided into lots for sale. My great grandfather came to this part of Ontario in 1870 where he had purchased land from the Canada Company. This company lasted until the 1950s and is still very much a part of local history where I live. I hope this helps. If you need anymore information, write me. Regards, Maxine Forest, Ontario K/H Start wrote: > > Hello, > I am not familiar with the Canada Company as mentioned for Yorks > people coming to Canada. Would someone mind giving a simple > explanation please? Also, are there indexes to help in searching for > people? > Thanks. > Karen > > >...have a Yorkshire emigrant who left England in the 1840's, quite > >possibly lured over by one of the ads placed by the Canada Company, as he > >appears in one of their early remittance books sending money home to his wife > >and small family to bring them to Canada.