Down the Grand River
A trip from Brantford to Port Maitland
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Arguably the prettiest river in Southern Ontario, the Grand River has always been important to the residents from the early days when it was the main highway for travel to today when it is mostly a tourist attraction. It has had many names. Its first name was Tinaatoua, which may mean "Rapid River", because up to 1776 the French called it Riviere Rapide. It has also been called Riviere d'Urse (1708) and la Grande Riviere (1774). It was called the Oswego River in 1784, Oswego meaning "small water running into large". The Ojibway referred to it as O-es-shin-ne-gun-ing, which Augustus Jones translated as "it washes the lumber down and carries away the grass and weeds". Simcoe, when he became Lieutenant-Governor in 1792, renamed it the Ouse after a river in the Fen District of England, a favourite source of place names for him. The present name became the accepted name after 1834. This trip takes you down the river from Brantford to the mouth at Port Maitland. Along the way, you will pass through some small communities, such as Middleport and York, and some towns such as Caledonia, Cayuga, and Dunnville. Most of these places were created by, or reached their pinnacle of importance, because of the Grand River Navigation Company, a short-lived company formed in the mid 1800s. Starting the trip-BrantfordStart the trip at Brant's Crossing. Here the City of Brantford has created a place where you can stop and look at the Grand River. The actual site of Brant's Crossing is in dispute but you can enjoy the park. Turn right onto Icomm Drive. This modern road runs over the Grand River Navigation Canal. The derelict streets on the other side of the parking lot are Water Street and Wharf Street, named for their roles on the canal. At the second set of lights continue straight ahead onto Greenwich Street. You are now driving on what was the west tow path for the canal. At Eagle Avenue, you can see the canal on the left side of the road. The old factory on the corner of Murray Street is on the bank of the canal and may have been built there because of the canal.
Carry on past the Canadian Military Heritage Museum until you reach a small park on the right. Pull into the park. This small park commemorates the Toronto, Hamilton, and Buffalo Railway, which once ran through here. The lines have been removed and the track is now part of the Hamilton to Brantford Rail-Trail. If you walk across Greenwich Street, you will see Mohawk Lake, which was once the turning pool for the Brantford Canal.
Carry on to the end of Greenwich Street and turn left onto Mohawk Street. Drive across the bridge and turn right onto Beach Street. Park on the right. On the right is the remains of the lock for the Brantford Canal. This was the only lock on this section of the Grand River Navigation Canal.
Return to the car and drive back along Beach Street, turn left and drive across the bridge to Mohawk Street. On the right, just past Greenwich Street is a replica of a 17th century Iroquois village called Kanata. Further down, on the left, is St Paul's, Her Majesty's Chapel of the Mohawks. Both are well worth a visit. The chapel was built to replace the chapel built for the Mohawks in New York State and lost in the Revolutionary War. It is the oldest Protestant church in the province. In the graveyard are the graves of Joseph Brant and his son John. An interesting marker to the south of the church points out that the river originally came right up to the church and that would have been the way to reach it. The river has now taken a different path but you can clearly see where it used to run.
After the Mohawk Chapel, take the first left turn onto Birkett Lane. Turn left onto Erie Avenue (Brant Highway 4). At the traffic lights, turn left onto Blossom Avenue (Brant Highway 18). Continue to Salt Springs Church Road. You now have a choice. Salt Springs Church Road is unpaved, so if you don't want to drive along it continue to the paved road (Brant Highway 54) and turn right. The following description assumes that you turn right onto Salt Springs Church Road. Down the road on the right you will come to the church that gave the road its name. The church gets its name from salt springs located near here. Salt was in those days a vital commodity; neither people nor animals could survive without it. So finding salt springs was an achievement. The Grand River Mission to the Six Nations was established here in 1822 by Wesleyan Methodists in competition with the Anglican Mohawk Chapel. The first church on this site, a frame building, was built about 1828. As the congregation grew and the natives began to be replaced by Europeans, it was replaced with a brick building in 1860. The present building dates from 1902. The cemetery is from 1822.
Continue along the road. As you drive, the river accompanies you on the right until the road swings to the left to join Brant Highway 54. Turn right onto the highway and follow it to the small community of Onondaga, the seat of the township. The first settler in the village of Onondaga was David Smith, who opened a general store here about 1845 and gave the village its first name of Smith's Corners. He also had a liquor saloon and bowling alley. On the left as you enter the village is the Onondaga Town Hall, an imposing white-brick building with a tower. This was built as the School Section No. 5 school and was opened in 1876. It could house as many as two hundred pupils and cost $3000. As enrolment declined, the five schools in the township were closed and combined into a single school in 1959. Eventually even this school closed in 1984. The former SS5 building became the township municipal building and now contains the township offices, council chamber, and Fire Department.
Continue through the village and out the other side. After you pass through the village, you will see a sign announcing that you are entering Six Nations territory. When the Six Nations relinquished ownership of the township in 1840, they kept seventeen lots and this land is what remains of those lots. Continue to the junction of Brant Highway 54 and Pauline Johnson Road. On the right, just after the intersection, is Chiefswood, famous as the home of the poet Pauline Johnson. Chiefswood was built by her father, Chief George Johnson, about 1853 for his English wife Emily Howells. It is a two-storey mansion that looks the same whether you are looking at the front or back. The lower windows are French.
Continue to Middleport. This village became important because it was located midway between Brantford and the Grand River Navigation Canal locks at Caledonia. As you drive through the village, look for three old buildings. The long white building on the left at 1150 Highway 54 is the old Logan or Middleport Hotel. This 14-room hotel was built about 1840 by John Logan, who also owned the local saw mill on Big Creek, not far away. Naturally, the building was constructed from timber cut at Logan's Mill. The framing was done in hemlock and the exterior walls were of red pine. The bar was on the west (right) end and still has its red pine floors. To the rear of the building were, and are, two barns. When Logan died in 1888, Joe Axon bought the hotel and renamed it the Middleport Hotel. Axon's relatives still own it but it's now a residence.
The next building, a brown wooden store at 1154 is the old Middleport General Store and was built in 1850. It was built of lumber, probably from Logan's saw mill, and the walls were covered with wide red pine boards laid horizontally, as in the hotel. The first owner was Charles Baldwin, who operated a grocery that also dabbled in liquor.
Across the highway is St Paul's Anglican Church, a board-and-batten building with a tower. It was built in 1868 on land donated by the owner of the general store.
Continue along Highway 54 until you pass the sign for Caledonia. Continue under the road bridge and pull into a parking area just before you reach the railway bridge. Across the road on top of the hill is a green frame house; this is the house of the founder of Caledonia, Ranald McKinnon, known as Squire McKinnon. On this site he built his first house, a log cabin that doubled as a store. He had come to build a lock and dam for the Grand River Navigation Company. The dam was just north of the present dam, which you can see if you look just past the railway bridge. Between the dam and the shore was a lock to allow vessels to pass down the river. Near the lock, McKinnon built a mill. The mill is long gone but the millrace that carried water to the mill is still here and you can see it from the parking area. Later, he replaced the log cabin with this house, which then had two wings. A later owner removed the wings and used them to build the yellow house next door.
Carry on along Highway 54, known here as Caithness Street, for a couple of hundred metres until you come to a parking area on the right. Across the road are two old red-brick houses. The house on the right, sideways onto the road, is number 192. It was built by Squire McKinnon for his son, John, in 1860. From the porch, John could look straight at his father's mill, which was directly across Caithness Street.
From the parking area, if you look across the river, you can see one of the sights of Caledonia: the Caledonia Mill. This mill was built by another celebrated inhabitant of Caledonia, James Little, between 1853 and 1857. Little was a businessman who made a fortune from lumber until the lumber industry went into decline in southern Ontario. He later became a conservationist before that became respectable. He is remembered for many of the regulations put in place to prevent forest fires.
Carry on along Caithness Street through the traffic lights. On the left, about a hundred metres past the lights, is a house with an ornate porch or verandah. This house, 46 Caithness Street East, was built by Dr. William McPherson about 1847 as a home and office. It was later owned by another doctor, briefly. Squire McKinnon's grand-nephew Dr. Ranald McKinnon lived here before he became the Medical Superintendent for the Six Nations. He died shortly after at the age of 34.
There's one more McKinnon house to see. Carry on along Caithness Street to 156 Caithness Street East. This is a fine house set back from the road. It was built by Squire McKinnon's nephew, Neil McKinnon, who was raised by Squire McKinnon. It was in this house that Dr. Ranald McKinnon was born. Neil McKinnon House Continue along Highway 54 for about 4 km to Sims Lock Road. Turn right. Sims Lock was the place where the Grand River Canal's second dam and lock were built by a man names Sims or Symes. After you make the right turn onto Sims Lock Road, you will notice that the road goes uphill then downhill before making a turn to the left to rejoin the highway. At the end of the road, just before the turn, is a grey house on the right. This house is Glenholme and was built by Henry Baker about 1850. Baker had lived in the Sims Lock area since 1822, long before there was any Sims Lock. His original house had burned down so he built this one. If you can get permission, go to the end of the garden and take a look at the canal.
Continue to the highway and turn right. Drive along Highway 54 until reach the old William Nelles house at 1400 Highway 54, otherwise known as Walnut Bank Farm. The land on which this was built was part of the land assigned to the Six Nations by Governor Haldimand. Joseph Brant saw that the days of roaming and hunting by his people were coming to an end and that they would need to become farmers. In an effort to have his people develop their farming skills, he encouraged them by giving land to people he knew had been good farmers and good neighbours to native people in the Mohawk Valley. So he gave huge grants of land to people like John Dochstader, Hendrick Nelles and Adam Young. William Nelles, son of Hendrick (Henry), built this house about 1786 before he moved to Grimsby. The house is still occupied by descendents of Hendrick Nelles. Originally the house had a frame construction with a gable roof, The wooden walls were painted with a mixture of iron oxide (rust) and milk, giving it a red colour and the name the Red House. Toward the end of the 1800s, it received a major upgrade in which the building was lengthened and the roof changed. At the same time, the exterior walls were covered in clapboard and painted white.
Continue along Highway 54 until you pass the sign for the village of York. Besides giving the huge grants of land to Hendrick Nelles and Adam Young, the Six Nations also gave a smaller grant of 150 acres to George Cunningham on behalf of his wife, Mary Sitts. Mary had been kidnapped by Mississaugas as an eight-year-old and had been rescued by Hendrick Nelles and adopted by the Mohawks. She later married William Nelles in a native ceremony and lived in the Red House. There she met George Cunningham. She later left Nelles to go to live with Cunningham at the Mohawk village at Brantford. The Cunningham grant was located between the Nelles and Young Tracts, and was where the village of York grew. Cunningham had lived on the front part of his lot before 1797, but, sometime before 1802, Cunningham and his family moved away. By 1808 the farm was in the hands of Warner Nelles, Hendrick's son and William's brother, and had become part of the Nelles Settlement. The village did not begin to grow until Warner Nelles sold his rights to the land to James Davis, a miller, who had the site surveyed and subdivided in 1834. Davis intended to take advantage of the lock and dam to be built here by the Grand River Navigation Company; he eventually had a grist mill and three saw mills. The village developed into a prosperous community until the Grand River Navigation Company collapsed and from then the village gradually shrank. The first person to buy property from Davis in York was James Hector McKenzie. He and his brother Murdo were rumoured to be related to a Scottish laird who gave them some money to emigrate. They were merchants, shopkeepers, and land speculators and were not afraid of a little underhand dealing, as the Six Nations found out. When the Six Nations were handing out grants of land to people like the Nelles and Young families, a man named Thomas Runchey came up with a proposal for building a mill west of the Grand River in return for land. The deal was that the Six Nations would give him a grant of two hundred acres plus the land that would be flooded by the mill's dam. He got his grant but sold out to the McKenzie brothers, who promptly built the dam as high as they could, so flooding a vast area. Then they marked the edge of the mill pond with stakes. After that they lowered the dam to the level required to turn the mill wheel and, lo and behold, the much-smaller mill pond was now surrounded by acres of marked land. They named the creek McKenzie Creek and the land there, 1200 acres instead of 200, the Ardross Block, by which name it is still referred. The McKenzie mill was the first in the northern half of Haldimand County and was known as the White Mill. Continue along Highway 54 until you pass Stoney Creek Road. In the 1780s, this was one of the few trails in the area and ended at what is now Stoney Creek, part of the City of Hamilton. Look for a white single-storey house on a hill on the left side of the road. This is the old Warner Nelles house and dates from before 1835, because it appears on a map showing structures in the village of York in 1835. This house is in the southwest corner of the Nelles Tract. Warner was the only one of Major Hendrick (Henry) Nelles' sons to remain on the tract. Three sons, Robert, William, and Abraham, moved to Grimsby. Another son John lived on a farm across the river.
Just south of this house is St John's Anglican Church, which sits on the actual southwest corner lot of the Nelles Tract. The brick church was built in 1891. An earlier church was built in 1845 in the cemetery further up County Road 9 (Nelles Road) and looked more like a barn than a church. It is now the parish hall and has been moved from the cemetery to a location directly across Nelles Road from the present church.
In front of the brick church is a plaque describing the Nelles Settlement. Nearby is the tombstone of Major Nelles inside a small sheltering monument. His grave is not here. It has been ploughed under along with all the other Nelles graves in the old Young graveyard.
Continue along Highway 54 past the bridge. On the left just past the bridge is a red-brick Georgian building. This was the Mansion House Hotel built by Daniel Barber in 1862. Notice the four tall chimneys and the large door just above the front door. This perhaps indicates that there was a verandah on the front of the hotel.
On the right past the old hotel was the site of the second lock of the Grand River Canal and is indicated by a round marker. Also here were the saw- and gristmills built by James Davis, who bought the Cunningham farm from Warner Nelles in 1834 and founded the village. The lock was located at the foot of Mill Street and Davis's grist mill was right next to the lock, hence the name of the street. The sawmill was a little further downriver. The location of the mill is marked by a large square concrete block with a piece of mill mechanism on top. At one time a bridge crossed over the river across the dam at the bottom of Mill Street. A millrace carried water past the dam to the mills. The millrace would have been between the concrete block and the road but has been filled in and there is now no trace of it, the dam, or the lock. Continue along Highway 54 for about 3 km. Look on the right for a marker for the Young family and the Young Tract on which it stands. It describes how the family fared in the Revolutionary War, how they helped 74 Loyalists escape, and how they settled on the land here, given by the Six Nations. If you go behind the marker, you may be able to see a line of trees between the bushes and a field. This marks the line of the Grand River Canal. Beyond that the field was part of the Young farm, and originally contained the cemetery where Adam Young and his son John are buried along with Hendrick Nelles and members of the Nelles family. Unhappily, these graves have been ploughed under over the years. Beyond the field is another line of trees marking the location of the Grand River.
Continue along Highway 54 for about 2 km. As you drive, past the bushes on the right are the remains of the Grand River Canal. Except for the cut at Brantford, this was the longest cut made for the canal. It extended from the lock at Indiana to the dam near the ghost town of Mount Healy on the other side of the river. The cut was to bypass the rocky water around a large island, Young Island. Because of the island, the dam was in two about-equal sections: one from the eastern bank to the island, and one from the island to the western bank. The lock was at the southern end of the cut and around it sprang the village of Indiana. The next road on the left is called Indiana Road and here Indiana was once located, between the highway and the river. Having fought in the War of 1812, David Thompson received a grant of land on the Grand River. He made a fortune working as a contractor on the Grand River Canal and became a major shareholder in the the Grand River Navigation Company, at one time owning a quarter of the shares. In 1832, Thompson bought an additional 1200 acres, and there built the first dam and lock for the Grand River Canal. Here he also built a gristmill and a sawmill, the foundation of the village of Indiana. His fortune assured, in 1845 he built a fine 36-room Greek Revival mansion, which he named Ruthven. He went on to be Member of Parliament for Haldimand County. Ruthven is still there and is now open to the public. It is well worth a visit.
Unfortunately, in the 1850s, the railway arrived in Brantford but never came to Indiana. The Grand River Navigation Company went out of business and Indiana slowly died. Today, all that's left of a village that housed 120 people in 1846 are two houses. One of these is actually made up of four small original houses that have been connected under a single roof. One of the four houses was the post office. The combined house is now a bed-and-breakfast inn called the Gingerbread Inn and is an excellent place to stay and eat if you want to make this a two-day trip. Some of the old streets have been marked out and nearby are the remains of the Indiana cemetery. Most of the remaining gravestones have Irish names from the men who settled there after digging out the canal. Some difficult paths still lead down to the canal, the remains of the mill, and the millrace.
Continue along Highway 54 to Cayuga. Cayuga grew because of two events: the extending of the Talbot Road and the creation of Haldimand County. Earlier, when the Six Nations surrendered the land at the south end of the Grand River, the government had surveyed a town plot. The first settler arrived about 1833. In 1837, the Talbot Road was extended from Simcoe to Canborough as a military road and the site where the road crossed the river became a natural place for development. But there was no rush for the land. By 1842, when Samuel McClung arrived, there were still only five houses, three of which were also stores and one other was a tavern. About that time the first bridge was built across the river. It wasn't until Haldimand County was created in 1850 with Cayuga, being in the centre of the new county, as its county town that the village began to grow. A fine new Court House was built on the hill north of the Talbot Road in 1851. That building was destroyed and the present Court House replaced it in 1923. Just after you pass the sign for Cayuga and just before the bridge over the creek, look for the Hermitage on the right. This old house, now needing a lot of help, was built by Agnew Patrick Farrell in 1851. He was an Irishman, born in County Antrim, and emigrated to Canada in 1833. When he moved to the shore of Lake Erie, he was the first permanent settler of Dunn Township. In the Rebellion of 1837, he became captain of a volunteer company and was later gazetted a colonel of the Haldimand Militia. After Haldimand County was created in 1850, he built the Hermitage, moved from the lake to Cayuga, and was appointed County Treasurer.
On the right across the bridge is the County Court House, still in use. Turn right past the Court House onto Echo Street. Then turn left onto Ottawa Street. Take the right fork onto Cayuga Street. On the left is the village green with the library. On the right just past the green is a row of stores. The right section, known as the Gibson-Bunn Building, was built between 1860 and 1880. The land once belonged to Agnew Farrell, who sold it to George Gibson, a local businessman, in 1869 and Gibson probably erected this building. Notice the brickwork in the front.
At the traffic lights, continue straight across on Cayuga Street, take the first right onto Brant Street, then turn left onto Ouse Street. This street is named for the Ouse River, the name given to the Grand River by Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe. This street is likely to have been the tow-path for the Grand River Canal. If you stop and look at the river, you may be able to imagine the horses pulling the boats down the river toward Dunnville, urged on by young boys with sticks. Today such young labour would be condemned. Drive along Ouse Street to Chippewa Street, turn left, and drive to the main road, officially Thorburn Street but designated Haldimand Road 17. Turn right and drive toward Dunnville. About 5 km down the road look for a red-brick schoolhouse on the left at about 1956 Highway 17. This is the Gypsum Mines School, the one-room school for the ghost town of Gypsum Mines and erected in 1874 to replace a log building. One of the early industries on the Grand River was gypsum mining. Gypsum, or hydrated calcium sulphate, is used to make plaster of Paris but was also used in those days as a fertilizer to reduce the soil's acidity. It was mined from horizontal mine shafts dug from the banks of the river and extending for some distance under the village of Gypsum Mines. Gypsum is the reason why Paris, Ontario got its name. The old schoolhouse is one of only two buildings remaining from Gypsum Mines. It closed as a school and community centre in 1957.
Continue on CR 17 toward Dunnville. At number 244 Highway 17, on the left, is an old brick 1½-storey building. This is the house that was built by Captain John Dochstader. Before the road was built, the house stood on the banks of the river. This house, or perhaps an earlier version, was visited by many famous people including John Norton. The original door in the front of the building has been bricked up. The house was also an inn. The two rooms on the right (east? south?) side were for the family and the two other rooms were for guests and would have included a tavern area. Because of a fire that damaged the house, the interior has been totally replaced but the owners have many photographs of the old interior.
Captain John Dochstader was a lieutenant in the Indian Department during the Revolutionary War and fought alongside Joseph Brant and the Six Nations. After the war, he was given a large grant by the Six Nations but lost most of it to Benjamin Canby under dubious circumstances. The 1500 acres he ended up with was, and is, known as the Dochstader Tract. He is often confused with his nephew, also named John Dochstader but a sergeant in Butler's Rangers. Sergeant John's father, Frederick, was Captain John's brother. Frederick was a lieutenant in Butler's Rangers and died in action in 1781. Sergeant John had a grant on the south or west side of the river. He returned to the US at the start of the War of 1812 and his grant was eventually taken over by his daughter and son-in-law named Fradenburgh and is known as the Fradenburgh Tract. Continue to Dunnville. Highway 3 comes in from the left but there is no stop as the roads merge. At the junction where Highway 3 turns left, carry straight on. Look for a pale blue, almost white house on the left at 419 Main Street West. This was the second house of the founder of Dunnville, Salmon Minor, who arrived here in 1825. The house replaced a log house and was originally on Lock Street, which is one street north (the river here runs west to east).
At the traffic lights for the bridge is the old Queen's Hotel. This hotel was built by Samuel Amsden in 1840 and is still a hotel. The hotel would have been on the quayside right next to the entrance to the feeder canal. This canal followed the path of Queen Street, which ran alongside the canal and was originally called Canal Street. The hotel itself is not particularly attractive but you can still see the old building above the modern frontage.
At the traffic lights next to the Queen's Hotel, continue straight across onto Main Street East. On the right, the bridge crosses the river near the dam, which is still there. The dam was built in 1827 to raise the level of the river 8 feet for the feeder canal. No lock was built into the dam, probably because the Welland Canal Company did not have enough money. There is still no lock and there's still no money to build one. Just past the intersection are three streets, Hydro, Market, and Maple. These are on the sites of three mills, which used the water from the canal to drive millwheels. Main Street ran along the west bank of the canal, which was behind the houses on the left, between Main Street and Queen Street. The canal within Dunnville was filled in during the 1840s. Continue along Main Street. Past Taylor Road, the feeder canal appears on the right. On the far side of the canal is a path called Feeder Lane, which was once the southern towpath. Here there is plenty of water in the canal but further along the supply of water diminishes. For most of the section of the feeder canal from here to Stromness, the canal is on the right side of the road. Further along, just past Aiken Road, the canal crosses to the other side and Feeder Lane now goes off to the left. Further on, the canal crosses back to the right and Feeder Lane ends on the left. Take the next road off on the left. This is Canal Bank Road. After you turn left, you will notice that the canal is still on your right. Take the next right to cross over the canal. Park the car and wealk to the canal. From the bridge over the canal, you can see the straight feeder canal coming from the Welland Canal in the east toward the bridge. On the other side of the bridge, the canal takes two paths. At first, the canal was forced to turn here toward Dunnville because the Navy owned the land at Port Maitl;and and would not allow the canal to pass through its property. You can clearly see this route as the canal swings north. Later, the canal was extended to Port Maitland and you can see where the feeder continued in a straight line in that direction.
Turn right toward Port Maitland and the Grand River. Just a few hundred yards further on is the main road (Haldimand Road 3). If you want to take a detailed look at the McCallum-Snively House, turn right to cross over the canal, then immediately turn left and drive down the unpaved road until you reach the house. If you don't want to see the house in detail, continue straight across; you will still be able to see the house but from across the canal and through the trees. Lachlan McCallum was a dour Scotsman who was born in Tiree in the Hebrides in 1823. His father died when he was young and he quickly had to learn how to earn money, first as a fisherman, then as a carpenter. In the 1840s, the Scottish lairds began the infamous clearings, in which they cast the tenant farmers off the land so that they could raise sheep. McCallum emigrated to Canada and found work as a contractor on the Welland Canal. The Feeder Canal brought him to Broad Creek in 1855 and here he bought land and started various businesses, including a store, cheese factory, a hotel, several flour mills and a shipbuilding business. He represented the area as an MP and a senator. He built his fine house in 1872. The exterior walls are three feet thick and it has a grand staircase made of walnut. The outhouse was a two-holer but they were back-to-back, with one side for the ladies and the other for the gentlemen. The house was lit and heated by a gas pump that McCallum had drilled and connected to the house from a well in his front yard. The house is still heated this way. Unfortunately, although McCallum had several children, none of them married, and so, when the last died, the house was sold to the Snively family, who have owned the house since.
Continue to Lock 27. This lock that was built in 1846 when the feeder canal was extended to Port Maitland. Unlike the original feeder canal and the first Welland Canal, it is made of stone blocks. Still visible are the indentations for the lock gates although the gates themselves are gone. From the picture, it appears that the canal still flows through the lock but in fact the canal is blocked by a road to the east and a railway bridge to the west.
Continue along the road past the railway to the end of the road. From the end, you can see across the river to the other half of Port Maitland, with its lighthouse. The section of canal from the railway line to the river is now used as a dock for fishing boats.
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Brantford Canal seen from
the bridge at Eagle Street
The Rail Trail at Greenwich Street
Brantford Lock
Mohawk Chapel
Salt Springs Church
Onondaga SS5 School now the Town Hall
Chiefswood
Logan Hotel
Middleport General Store
St Paul's Church, Middleport
Ranald McKinnon House
John McKinnon House
Caledonia Mill
Dr. William McPherson House
Baker House
Canal behind the Baker House
William Nelles House (The Red House)
Warner Nelles House
Old St John's Church
Major Henry Nelles Monument
Mansion
House Hotel
Young Marker
The Gingerbread Inn
Agnew Farrell's Hermitage
Gibson-Bunn Building
Gypsum Mines School
Dochstader House
Salmon Minor House
Queens Hotel
Feeder canal looking east toward Wainfleet and the Welland Canal
Feeder canal as it swings north toward Dunnville
McCallum-Snively House
Gas pump in the front of the McCallum-Snively House
Lock 27 Port Maitland
The end of the feeder canal looking from the Grand River