[Documents relating to the proceedings of the district land boards]
Contributors: Upper Canada. Land Board; Home District, Ont
Series: Third report of the Bureau of archives for the province of Ontario; Third report of the Bureau of archives for the province of Ontario
Publisher: L.K. Cameron, printer
Published: 1906
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 546
Subjects: Sources; History; Land grants
Notes: In 1788 Lord Dorchester, governor of the province of Quebec, divided that part of the province which later became Upper Camada and Ontario into the four districts of Lunenburgh, Mecklenburgh, Nassau and Hesse; designations which the first Assembly of Upper Canada altered to Eastern, Middle, Home and Western districts respectively. Later enactments subdivided and changed these districts.

The land districts of Hesse and Nassau, whose records are here printed comprise that portion of modern Ontario from Trent River westward to St. Clair River and Lake Huron.
Table of contents: title: Report of the Bureau [including a list of 271 journals and diaries of public land surveyors]; title: Notes on land tenure in Canada to A.D. 1800.; title: Minutes of meetings of the Board of the land office for the district of Hesse.; title: The two connectied townships, afterwards Cholchester and Gosfield.; title: Minutes, correspondence, register of lots and papers of the Land board for the district of Nassau.; title: Book of official instructions to the land surveyors of Upper Canada.; title: Surveyors' letters.; title: [Miscellaneous papers]