Early Ontario

By The Ontario City Library

George and William Chaffey, immigrants from Canada, founded a model colony in Southern California in 1882. They named their settlement Ontario, from an Iroquois term meaning beautiful water, not only to pay homage to their home province but to also draw other Canadians to their colony. Utilizing forward-thinking irrigation practices, the brothers laid out plots of land ready for colonists who wanted to farm or raise citrus groves. After just four years, the brothers left for Australia to develop more settlements and passed their model colony on to Charles Frankish and his partners of the Ontario Land and Improvement Company. From its earliest days, the colony became known for its citrus groves, Armstrong roses, Graber olives, Guasti grapes, and the Hotpoint iron. This book, which includes nearly 200 images, focuses on the colony s early development.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Release date: Dec 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781439648629

The Ontario City Library

The majority of the images in this book are from the collections housed in the Robert E. Ellingwood Model Colony History Room of the Ontario City Library. Graber Olive House provided many additional images. Members of the Ontario City Library staff researched and authored the text, spotlighting the people and industries that created Ontario�s legacy as a model colony.

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