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fifty-five acres of Crown lands are open for sale in Garafraxa, at 8s. currency
per acre. There are one grist and two saw mills in the township.
Population in 1841, :y2-2.
Ratable property in the township, £0207.
GARDEN ISLAND.
A small Island in Lake Ontario, opposite Kingston, containing about thirty
acres. It is occupied by a firm who arr largely engaged in the rafting business,
it being conveniently situated tor the i)urpose. A large nuniber of vessels are
employed in bringing staves frum all jjarls of the western cuuiitry to the island,
where they are unloaded, and the staves made into raits for the voyage to
Quebec.
GEOK(JETOWN.
A flourishing Village in Esquesing, situated on a branch of the River Credit,
17A miles north from Dundas Street. It contains about 7vJU inliabitants.
Professions and Tnules.—One grist mill, one saw do., cloth factory, two
tanneries, two stores, one foundry, one ashery, one tavern, one chair maker,
three waggon makers, one cabinet maker, four blacksmiths, two tailors, three
shoemakers.
GEORGINA.
A Township in the Home District ; is bounded on the north by Lake Simcoe;
on the west by the township of Gwillimbury North; on the south by Scott; andou
the east by Brock. In Georgina 11,827 acres are taken up, 2G.")3 of which are
under cultivation. Much of the land in this township is hilly and broken ;
some of it, however, is of excellent quality, and is heavily timbei-ed. The banks
of the lake in Georgina are generally rather high. A stream, called Black
River, runs through the east of the township, from south to north, on which is
a village, called Bouchers', or Sutton Mills, situated about two miles south of
the lake. On the lake shore, about three miles from the village, is an Episcopal
church. The steamboat " Beaver " stops at Jackson's Point in the township,
29110 acres of Crown lands are open for sal^ in Georgina at 8s. currency per
acre. There are two grist and three saw mills, and one distillery in the township,
Populati(m in 1842, .586.
Ratable property in the township, £8419.
GERMANY, LITTLE.
A German Settlement in the to-.> uship of ^^'aterloo, about nine miles southwest
from Preston, within half a mile of the township of Guelph; contains a
catholic church, two taverns, two blacksmiths, and about sixty inhabitants.
GIBBS' MILLS.
A Settlement \n the township of Whitby, about one mile south from Oshawa.
It contains about 150 iijhabitants, grist mill, oatmeal do., pot barley do., distil-
L^ry, tannery, and cloth factory (the machinery of which is worked by water),
where excellent coarse cloths and blankets are made.
GLANFORD.
A Township in the Gore District; is bounded on the east by the township of
Caistor; on the north by Barton; on the west by Ancaster; and on the south
by Seneca. In Glanford, 18,805 acres are taken up, 7,.'342 of which are under
cultivation. This is a small, well settled township, coutainmg good farms, and
a mixed population. There is one saw mill in the township.
Population in 1841, 996.
Ratable property in the township, .£26,794.