Tag: loyalist settlement

• Fairfield House in Amherstview, on the Shores of Lake Ontario

  

  By Clara Columbus, Photography by Susanna Gordon Published by Iris Russak The story of Fairfield House begins during the American Revolution. The Fairfields were a family of Vermont farmers who remained loyal to the British Crown as tensions rose and the rebels gained power. William Fairfield fled to Canada in 1778, leaving behind his wife,…

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  August 8, 2018

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