The Islands: Island Biographies
Island Biographies
Biographies of Amherst, Garden, Howe and Wolfe Islanders.
Please EMAIL ME with your ancestors biographies!
One family group (parents and children) per biography please,
or you can just submit an individual. Submit as many biographies as
you like! There is no limit to text submitted. No more than 4 photos
for each biography please.
(Other photos can be submitted to the Island Photos pages though!)
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Amherst Island
McGrattan/Grattan
RADCLIFF (Radcliffe), THOMAS, militia officer, jp, and politician
From Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online- Offsite!
FOWLER, DANIEL, artist, farmer, journalist, and author
From Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online- Offsite!
Mrs. Annie Rothwell Christie (nee Fowler?)
John REID and family updated!
Joseph Edward MCFERN and family
Robert FILSON
From History of the County of Lennox and Addington
1913, W.S. Herrington, K.C.- Offsite!
Daniel FOWLER-Artist
PENTLAND family
Thomas Radcliffe
Garden Island
William Garrah-died WW1-born Garden Island
CALVIN, DILENO (Deleno) DEXTER, lumber merchant, forwarder, businessman, and politician;
From Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online- Offsite!
Hiram Augustus CALVIN
D. D. Calvin-How a Township Got Its Name
By Doug Mackey Offsite!
Ira G. MENARD
By Ken Menard
Howe Island
James CLARKE
James Clarke Sr.
by Ken Menard Offsite!
Joseph CADUE & Anne HUNT
Anne Matilda Clarke ARNIEL (2 bios, one offsite)
-Suffragette
Captain James MAHONEY
Elizabeth Barnett (Wife of Wm Fairman of Howe Is.):
Heroine of Gananoque
by John Northman Offsite!
Wolfe Island
WILLS family history
-Wills Family History document, which traces the journey from England,
to Wolfe Island,
and finally to Calgary. The document includes a significant section on the Wills' of Wolfe Island
from 1832-1890, as well as plenty of pictures and data from
the Island that I've compiled over the past seven years.
By Stace Wills who may be contacted at [email protected]
PLEASE NOTE: This is in pdf format you will need adobe acrobat reader to view.
It is also a large file and make take a bit to load.
John M. Ford
-Excerpt from book by Reuben Butchart
Nancy Jane HAYDEN
Submitted by Mary Anne Drobnak
-USA census estracts for her family and son Thomas Ledfords family
Walter Fraser, M.D.
Submitted by George Halladay
From: "History of Kossuth County, Iowa" by B.F.Reed
Jabez West
By Dean Snider
James Almond Gilfillan
By Dean Snider
Abraham John Snider NEW
By Dean Snider
MURRAY, LOUISA ANNIE, teacher and author
From Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online- Offsite!
HORTON, EDWARD ELIJAH, newspaperman, court reporter, and inventor
From Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online- Offsite!
DICKSON, JOHN ROBINSON, surgeon and educator
From Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online- Offsite!
Floyd SniderOffsite!
John Robinson Dickson
Thomas Venton SLUMAN
Warren Chester GODFREY
-By Vivian Godfrey Bloom
Warren GODFREY & Emeline HINCKLEY
-Emeline born on Wolfe Island, Warren resident.
-By Michael Dawber
Maude Lavenia RADFORD(m. Warren) OFFSITE!
-born on Wolfe Island, author
Martin STALEY & Archibald STALEY
LANGANS of Wolfe Island
-Shipping Life on the Great Lakes
CRAWFORD- Mariners of Wolfe Island
The DAWSONS of Wolfe Island
- From Irish Emigrants to Politically Connected Canadians
PATRICK MCAVOY and CATHERINE DAWSON
- An Irish-Style Wolfe Island Love Story
WILLIAM HOLLIDAY and SARAH CALDWELL HOLLIDAY
WILDERS of Wolfe Island
Rev. Michael STAFFORD
CHARLES WALL
McGUIRE/ROGERS Family Connections
�A Wolfe Island Who�s Who
Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen
Miscellaneous Writer-OFFSITE!
Augustus Hinckley: Lake Ontario Mariner part 1
By Richard Palmer-OFFSITE!
James Devolsom Bamford-OFFSITE
R. F. Fawcett. A LIFE ON THE LAKE-OFFSITE
The Islands: Biographies