Hello, Only slightly off-topic is a man I was just reminded of this week; I picked up an old photo of a large "plaque" which stands in the front of a farm in Winchester, MA (US). You can read his story on this web page, but Philemon WRIGHT was from a long-standing family in Winchester, but in 1800 - he convinced other residents to follow him to Canada. To make a long-story short, he was the man who started up - Hull, Prov. of Quebec: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philemon_Wright Philemon Wright (September 3, 1760 – June 3, 1839) was a farmer and entrepreneur who founded Wrightville, the first settlement in the National Capital Region of Canada. Wrightville later became Hull, Quebec. He was born in a Woburn, Massachusetts into a family that had been amongst the town’s founders 120 years before. Raised as a farmer in a reasonably prosperous family, and as a young man he served two years with the rebel forces in the first years of the American Revolution. Feeling the strain of overpopulation in Massachusetts, Wright led a group of 5 families and 33 labourers to the then isolated and unsettled area of the Ottawa Valley in March 1800. He came upon the intersection of the Gatineau and Ottawa rivers and found good soil there. Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) P.S. My ancestors had the bordering farm in Winchester, MA. The "Hill District" of the town had only 3-4 large farms, and the HUTCHINSON's had the whole top of the hill (1720's-present). In 1840's the farm was divided in 2; one farmhouse went out of the family in ~1910, and the other ~1960. (This family had the patriarch, George, arriving 1630, and they were not related to the religious activist, of the same years, "Anne Marbury HUTCHINSON.") (On the same family-tree is KIDDER, CROSBY, RICE, WILKINS, some of Maine / New Brunswick border.)