"Immigration - Port Glasgow (in Aldborough township, Elgin county, Ontario - Canada). The original landing place of Elgin's first Scottish Highlander settlers. The first settlers to West Elgin, who numbered some eighteen families, encamped at the site on 1818 prior to being taken into the bush and given lots by Col. Talbot's survey team. Originally named 'Cnoc Neilliadh' or Nellie's Rock, in honour of Nelly Campbell, a well-liked settler who was the first to charge ashore at site in 1818 "
St. Thomas Weekly Times, January 1908, Interview with Donald A Gunn
"Immigration - Port Glasgow (in Aldborough township, Elgin county, Ontario - Canada). The original landing place of Elgin's first Scottish Highlander settlers. The first settlers to West Elgin, who numbered some eighteen families, encamped at the site on 1818 prior to being taken into the bush and given lots by Col. Talbot's survey team. Originally named 'Cnoc Neilliadh' or Nellie's Rock, in honour of Nelly Campbell, a well-liked settler who was the first to charge ashore at site in 1818 "
St. Thomas Weekly Times, January 1908, Interview with Donald A Gunn
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