Priceville, Ontario, Canada

Guide to Priceville, Ontario ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.



History
The first culture to inhabit the area was the Huron Indians and the Petun Indians. There has been evidence of them found along the Saugeen River in Artemesia Township.

In the late 1700’s was around the time that the black United Empire Loyalists, along with the white United Empire Loyalists, moved north from America to Upper Canada. Colonel Price, a black settler, was the first to turn soil in the village, and so the name Priceville was named in his honour. It is believed that he is buried in the unmarked black cemetery that was ploughed over in 1930 by a farmer to plant potatoes. Though by 1851 almost every 50 acre lot was settled by a black family that had improved them, planted their crops, and built their homes on it, it still remained for the most part government property. Between 1848 and 1850, the English, Irish, Scottish, and the French settlers arrived to the area and the government was petitioned to bring the village plots in the market.

Settlement of the village site began about 1850 by Gaelic speaking Scottish people(1). If you stroll through the pioneer cemetery, you will see that nearly all of the early residents were of Scottish origin.

Black History

 * Priceville Black Cemetery


 * Canadian Town Tried To Bury Its Founding By Black Pioneers


 * The Underground Railroad


 * Stories from The Little Black School House


 * Canadian Negroes and the Rebellion of 1837

Cemeteries

 * Canadian Headstones - enter search terms for McNeil's Cemetery


 * McNeil Cemetery


 * McNeil Cemetery : lot 5, South Durham Road, Artemesia Township, village of Priceville


 * Old Durham Road Pioneer Cemetery


 * Priceville Old Pioneer Cemetery : hwy. 4 & Queen St., Artemesia Twp.

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Church Records

 * St. Andrew’s, Priceville, Ont. Presbyterian


 * Church records, 1861-1998

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 * Grey County, Ontario


 * Township papers, ca. 1783-1870's

Military

 * British Regiments In Canada


 * Canadian Great War Project


 * Canadian War Museum


 * CWGC Find War Dead


 * The National Archives


 * SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION


 * Air Force Association of Canada WW1 & WW2


 * Royal Navy ratings' service records 1853-1923


 * Library and Archives Canada War Diaries of the First World War


 * War Time Canada

Museums & Libraries

 * Grey Highlands Public Library Priceville


 * Grey Highlands Libraries & Community Halls


 * Grey Highlands Public Library 1900 - 2008

Newspapers

 * The Dundalk Hearld and The Flesherton Advance


 * The OwenSound Times

Records

 * Grey County


 * Upper and Lower Canada Marriage Bonds


 * Immigration and Citizenship


 * Military Records


 * County Atlases


 * All Counties in Ontario


 * Black Canadian History in Grey


 * Immigrants to Canada


 * Isle of Tiree Genealogy


 * The Scottish Emigration Database


 * Young Immigrants to Canada

Societies

 * Black History in Grey County


 * Priceville and its roots (routes)


 * Grey County Historical Society


 * The Ontario Heritage Directory Online


 * Grey County Historical Society Blog


 * Grey County Ontario GenWeb


 * Bruce & Grey Branch Ontario Genealogical Society


 * The Ontario Heritage Directory Online


 * Canada GenWeb Project


 * Ontario Genealogical Society


 * Library and Archives Canada


 * Canadiana


 * Family History


 * Canada GenWeb

Town Directory

 * Grey Highland Businesses


 * Grey Highland Area Services