Elma Township

Hamlets, Villages and Towns

Books Specific to Elma township

$ The new township history book The Elmanac is now available.

Do you have a relative who was a teacher in Elma? Memories of School Days in Elma by James McCallum gives a short history of each school in the township, and also has a list of teachers for each school.

There's a book dedicated to Elma township in Vera McNichol's excellent series, Reveries of a Pioneer. There's more information on this series on my Perth county books page.

Pioneers of Elma Township

Elma township began to be settled at about the same time as Mornington township, in the late 1840s; however, it was not officially surveyed and opened for settlement until the early 1850s.

It is generally agreed that the first settlers in the township were George and Richard CODE, who settled at Trowbridge in 1847 or 1848.
The BUCHANAN family (seven brothers) settled c1848, the first at Donegal.
Other early families in the area mentioned in William Johnson's book are: TENNANT, Robert and William BINGHAM, the GIBSON family, John and Sam RITCHIE, HAMILTON, BOYD, COGHLIN, GRAHAM and LOWRIE.

See also the new Perth County Pioneers page for visitors' submissions of their pioneer info.

Elma Township Links

Photo of students at Donegal School, 1924 (originally published in the Stratford Beacon-Herald, 1982)

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