Title: The Lanark Society settlers
Description: Original research on the founding Families of Lanark County, settled 1820-1821 in New Lanark Upper Canada.  These families information often not elsewhere available, led later emigrations to Bruce County and the then North-West Territories (Saskatchewan and Manitoba mostly) and were key to Canada's economic, agricultural and cultural development.  Founding first libraries, bringing the first non-Church of England (presbyterian, Methodist, baptist) clergy and education, and establishing an marked level of literacy among pioneer families.
Subjects: History, Emigration and immigration, Lanark (County), Scots, Biography, Genealogy, settlement of Canada, Ontario, military history, social history, Immigrants
Places: Ontario, Lanark (Ont. : County), Lanarkshire (Scotland), Ayrshire (Scotland), Glasgow (Scotland)
People: Arnott family, Gemmill family, Whyte family
Time periods: 19th century