Early Days in Richmond Hill: A History of the Community to 1930 : electronic edition.

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Table of Contents

	Title Page
	Author's Preface
1	The Road through Richmond Hill
2	First Peoples on the Land
3	The European Settlers Arrive
4	From Miles' Hill to Richmond Hill: The Birth of a Community
5	Tories and Reformers
6	Stagecoach Lines and Railway Tracks
7	The Neighbours at Mid-Century
8	Fire Brigades and Fence Viewers
9	Picture Post Card Village of the 1880s and 1890s
10	Rails through Richmond Hill
11	The Flowering of Richmond Hill
12	The Village Transformed
	Epilogue
	Appendices
	Table of Illustrations
	Index

Miles, James: 1 Graham. It stood on the site donated by James Miles a century earlier, and has been in continual; 2 the father-and-son duo of Abner and James Miles, who did so much to shape the infant; 3 Abner's twenty-six-year-old son, James Miles, inherited his father's lands and business; 4 James Miles built a substantial, two-storey,; 5 emerging hamlet, described a visit to James Miles' house in 1830. "We found him with dinner; 6 Miles seems to have been well liked by all.; 7 Miles became affectionately known as "The Squire,"; 8 classes at Miles' Hill were held in a log settlement house on; 9 Miles usually possessed "a very even temper,"; 10 Miles died in 1844, at age sixty-four, after; 11 for his family - wife, Mercy, son, James, and daughters Hannah, Lucy, Elizabeth,; 12 James Miles is so far from liking to show off his; 13 Bridgeford, John Langstaff and James Miles, had put down their arms and returned to the; 14 company. Arnold's brother-in-law, James Miles, was lieutenant and second-in-command.; 15 Hill Presbyterian Church, erected in 1821. James Miles changed all that. Whether attempting to; 16 Miles' most important religious contribution came in; 17 a clearing in a grove of pine trees on James Miles' property on the west side of Yonge; 18 belated payment for the property after Miles' death in 1844. The land was purchased from; 19 new label - Richmond Hill. Perhaps James Miles had done something to alienate; 20 of early leaders like Abner and James Miles, William Jenkins, and Benjamin Barnard; 21 Miles' Hill may have evolved from James Miles' first Sunday School of 1811, or it may even; 22 James Miles and the Stolen

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