William was a dispatch and mail carrier from Toronto to Oshawa by horseback and led an adventuresome life with highway robbers and Native Americans. He later drove the Royal Mail Coach over the first corduroy road, which was made from four inch pine planks, (Kings Highway) between the above mentioned cities, and was known to have never lost a mailbag. William was a public spirited man who risked life and property to give aid to William Lyon McKenzie during the Canadian rebellion of 1837, and was known as a leader for social reform. His wife, Fanny Conant, was the daughter of Roger and Rhoda (Randall) Conant.
William was a dispatch and mail carrier from Toronto to Oshawa by horseback and led an adventuresome life with highway robbers and Native Americans. He later drove the Royal Mail Coach over the first corduroy road, which was made from four inch pine planks, (Kings Highway) between the above mentioned cities, and was known to have never lost a mailbag. William was a public spirited man who risked life and property to give aid to William Lyon McKenzie during the Canadian rebellion of 1837, and was known as a leader for social reform. His wife, Fanny Conant, was the daughter of Roger and Rhoda (Randall) Conant.
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