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Oro settlement
The interesting story of how war veterans built Oro, one of the first Black settlements in Canada
The culture in Upper Canada for prospective land owners in the early 1800s was for them to write to the Executive Council of the governor expressing interest in land. Once the petition was reviewed and deemed qualified, the prospective land owner is granted a location ticket, which assigns them to a specific plot. Though the…
