Canada Company
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The Canada Company was a private British land development company that was established to aid in the colonization of a large part of Upper Canada. It was incorporated by royal charter on August 19, 18
Historic emblazonment of the company's arms
The Canada Company's office in Toronto, 1834
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada Plaque. Erected 1929.
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John Galt (novelist)
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John Galt was a Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commentator. Galt has been called the first political novelist in the English language, due to being the first novelist to dea
Canada Company
…reserves and Crown reserves, which the company bought in 1827 for £341,000 ($693,000) from the Province of Upper Canada. Founded by the Scottish novelist John Galt, who became its first Superintendent, the company was successful in populating an area called the Huron Tract – an enterprise later called "the most…
John Galt Charles Grey 1835
Plaque on modern building which occupies the plot in Greenock where his father had the family house built in 1790, marking the garden entrance from Westburn Street to the upstairs flat where Galt died.
The Galt family tomb, inscribed to John Galt, "Author of The Annals of the Parish &c &c."