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    The Court Houses of a Century A Brief Historical Sketch of the Court Houses of London Distict, the County of Middlesex, and County of Elgin
    The Court Houses of a Century A Brief Historical Sketch of the Court Houses of London Distict, the County of Middlesex, and County of Elgin
    The Court Houses of a Century A Brief Historical Sketch of the Court Houses of London Distict, the County of Middlesex, and County of Elgin
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    The Court Houses of a Century A Brief Historical Sketch of the Court Houses of London Distict, the County of Middlesex, and County of Elgin

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      The Court Houses of a Century A Brief Historical Sketch of the Court Houses of London Distict, the County of Middlesex, and County of Elgin - Kenneth W. McKay

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      Title: The Court Houses of a Century

      A Brief Historical Sketch of the Court Houses of London

      Distict, the County of Middlesex, and County of Elgin

      Author: Kenneth W. McKay

      Release Date: January 21, 2011 [EBook #35026]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE COURT HOUSES OF A CENTURY ***

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      The Court Houses

      —OF A—

      Century.

      1800-1900.

      HOUSE OF LIEUT. JAMES MUNRO, ERECTED 1798, LOT 14, CON. 5, CHARLOTTEVILLE—USED AS COURT HOUSE, LONDON DISTRICT, 1800-1802. (Reproduced by permission of the Ontario Historical Society and William Briggs, Publisher.)

      The Court Houses

      —OF A—

      Century.

      A Brief Historical Sketch of the Court Houses of the London

      District, the County of Middlesex and

      County of Elgin.

      COMPILED BY

      KENNETH W. McKAY, COUNTY CLERK.

      PUBLISHED BY

      THE ELGIN COUNTY COUNCIL.

      With Introduction by James H. Coyne, B. A.

      The Times Printing Company of St. Thomas, Limited.

      1901.

      CONTENTS.

      "In any age it is a duty which every country owes to itself, to preserve the records of the past and to honor the men and women whose lives and deeds made possible its present, and

      to-day

      when the whole civilized world is throbbing to social and political impulses of the greatest significance for the future, we ought especially to call to mind such lives and deeds and catch, if we can, inspiration for acting well the part that falls to each of us."

      INTRODUCTION.

      THE PASSING CENTURY.

      The Wonderful Century is before the bar of history. Its record shows everywhere progress, consolidation, expansion, improvement. Civilization has spread, barbarism has given away. Labor has been restored to its honorable station, and idleness is accounted dishonor. Privilege has been curtailed, liberty

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