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Thomas Canby
[History of the Village of Fonthill The Fonthill Women’s Institute, 1944]
The D’Everardo home was originally built and owned by Thomas Canby, another early settler.
The Canboro Road was surveyed by Mr Canby from whom it derived its name. This road, a very crooked one, was the old Indian trail from Niagara Falls to Detroit and many old Indian relics have been found on the farm now occupied by Miss Ella Brown and Clifford Brown, originally known as the John Brown farm
From Mr Canby’s grandsons at Lowbanks, we learn a map of the Peninsula made by an army officer in 1816 showing a district called Canby-Marsh, taking in the countryside from Fonthill to Port Colborne. Fonthill is prominently marked but Welland not shown at all. These grandsons say Mr Canby always thought Fonthill “ a little bit of heaven.”
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