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The next immigrants,
mostly Alsatians, went across the boundary into Wilmot Township and
settled on Crown lands along the Upper Road for about two miles, to St.
Agatha. As the farms along Erb's Road were all taken, mostly by
Catholics, later ones betook themselves to the concessions further
north, in time up to the northern line of the Township and beyond, and
also northwest of St. Agatha. The Upper Alsatians were the first
and remained the most numerous, but others from Baden, Wurtemberg,
Bavaria, the Rhine Province
PETER SCHWARTZ
of Prussia, Hessia and other parts of
Germany settled among them. If space allows a more complete list
of early settlers here will be given in the Appendix.
These German immigrants were, almost
without exception, splendid acquisitions, and soon hewed for themselves
excellent farms out of the virgin forest, although most of them came
with little or no means. A few who brought means did not, as a
rule, do so well, because they did not see the need of so much industry
and economy as their poorer neighbors.