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Buxton National Historic Site and Museum, South Buxton, Ontario. The Buxton National Historic Site and Museum is a tribute to the Elgin Settlement (also known as the Buxton Mission, Raleigh, Kent County), established in 1849 by Reverend William King (1812–1895), [1]: 40 and an association which included Lord Elgin, then the Governor General of Canada.
North Buxton's historic population peaked at more than 2000, almost exclusively descendants of free Black people and fugitive slaves who had escaped the United States via the Underground Railroad. Upper Canada (now known as the province of Ontario, after the Dominion of Canada was confederated in 1867) was the first British colony to abolish ...
King, a former slave owner turned abolitionist, purchased 9,000 acres (36 km2) of crown land in Southwestern Ontario and created a haven for fugitive slaves and free Blacks. King brought 15 of his former slaves with him where they could live a free life. The Elgin settlement was divided into 50-acre (200,000 m2) lots.
South Buxton was founded in 1849 by the Elgin Association, organized by Rev. William King with support from the Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin.A neighbouring community with larger population, once the major part of what was called the Elgin Settlement, is North Buxton.
Buxton National Historic Site and Museum, South Buxton, Ontario. Black Canadians migrated north in the 18th and 19th centuries from the United States, many of them through the Underground Railroad, into Southwestern Ontario, Toronto, and Owen Sound. Black Canadians fought in the War of 1812 and Rebellions of 1837–1838 for the British.
Elgin County, Ontario; Elgin Settlement, a 19th-century community for freed slaves located in present-day North Buxton and South Buxton, Ontario; Elgin, a village in Rideau Lakes, Ontario
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Northeastern Ontario is a secondary region of Northern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario, which lies north of Lake Huron and east of Lake Superior. [ 1 ] Northeastern Ontario consists of the districts of Algoma , Sudbury , Cochrane , Timiskaming , Nipissing and Manitoulin .