Location
The City of Ottawa
In Richmond, at the fairgrounds on Perth Street (Road 10), just west of Huntley Road (Road 5)
|
Photographer
Alan L Brown
|
More Information
|
Posted
June 16, 2004
|
Text from the Plaque
In August, 1818, some thirty disbanded veterans of the 99th Regiment, led by Captain G.T. Burke, arrived in newly surveyed Goulbourn Township. These formed the advanced party of a military settlement planned and supported by the quartermaster-general's department. Here they laid out a town site named after the governor general, the Duke of Richmond. Storehouses were built, settlers' cabins erected and the colonists provided with farm implements and rations. Under the general supervision of Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Cockburn, about 400 heads of families, including some civilians, were established in the settlement by the end of 1818, thus forming the first large community within the present Carleton County.
|
|