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- "About the same time came John McInytre. He took up the land known afterwards for a great many years as “Allan McNab’s.” McIntyre had made a clearance and built a shanty. But he died very soon after from quinsy, and for a year or two the property was vacant.
Peter McIntyre, a brother, came on the same vessel to Canada, and took up the farm now known as the McLaren homestead, now occupied by Mr John B McLaren, a mile south of the town.
In the same vessel came another family of McIntyres, from Perthshire - Gregor, Duncan and John and several sisters, as well as their mother, the father having died in the old land. They were not relatives of John and Peter, but were friends and had been neighbours in the old land. They first went to Beckwith, where they had acquaintances; but did not care for that section of country, and came on, following the other McIntyres into Renfrew. Even here they were not thoroughly satisfied; and determined before locating permanently to invesitage Wester Ontario. John, of the one family, and Gregor of the other, started off on a pilgrimage westward on foot making their forty miles a day. However the west to them presented no greater…"[original is cut off here.] (The Story of Renfrew, from the coming of the first settlers about 1820. Smallfield, W. E. & Robert Campbell. Renfrew. Smallfield & Son. 1919.)
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Abt 1808 - Abt 1830 (~ 21 years)
