The history of the county of Bruce and of the minor municipalities therein, province of Ontario, Canada /cby Norman Robertson . or meet- ^George Jackson, although residing at Durham, was closely connectedwith the early days of Bruce and Walkerton. His name was also wellknown to all settlers along the length of the Durham Eoad. The few con-densed particulars of his life here given are, therefore, quite in Jackson was born at Hutton, Yorkshire, England, in December,1S09. He came to Canada in 1844. The appointment of Crown Land Agent(see Appendix E) for the Free Grants in IBruce and
The history of the county of Bruce and of the minor municipalities therein, province of Ontario, Canada /cby Norman Robertson . or meet- ^George Jackson, although residing at Durham, was closely connectedwith the early days of Bruce and Walkerton. His name was also wellknown to all settlers along the length of the Durham Eoad. The few con-densed particulars of his life here given are, therefore, quite in Jackson was born at Hutton, Yorkshire, England, in December,1S09. He came to Canada in 1844. The appointment of Crown Land Agent(see Appendix E) for the Free Grants in IBruce and Grey was conferredupon him in August, 1848. He was elected member of parliament in 1854for the county of Grey, being the first representative from that the exception of two parliaments, he continued to represent that con-stituency until 1882. Mr. Jackson exercised discretion and judgment inallotting settlers their free grants in Bruce, and was nuich respected andadmired by both friends and opponents. He died March 6th, 1885. -This part of the Durham line was chopped, but not logged, during thesummer of 1849. i.
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