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Axford (family)
Family

The Axford family originated in Hampshire and Wilshire, England. They settled primarily in yarmouth Township, Elgin County.

Family

Jacques Duperon Baby and his sons, James and Francis, were involved in the fur trade, the public service, Justice, landownership, and the militia during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Francis Baby was a member of the Upper Canada Legislative Assembly. Francois Baby, brother of Jacques Duperon, and his descendents played an important role in Quebec's politics and economy during the late 18th and 19th centuries. Jacques Duperon Baby (1731-1789) was a French fur trader in Detroit during the late eighteenth century. Jacques (James) Duperon Baby (1763-1833) was a public servant, office holder, judge, landowner, and a militia officer during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Backus (family)
Family

The Backus family was one of several families that had obtained land from Colonel Thomas Talbot and settled in the area which quickly came to be known as Little Ireland (a namesake due to the Irish ancestry of the settlers).

The Backus-Page House Museum is located within the grounds of the John E. Pearce Provincial Park, situated within a restored Georgian style house which was constructed in 1850. It is one of the first brick homes built in what would eventually become Dunwich Township. The house was commissioned by Andrew and Mary Jane Backus. The property that Andrew built his house on was given to him by his grandmother, Mary Storey, who received her original land grant in 1809.

Bailey family
Family · 1859-2012

The Bailey family of Whitby begins with Edward and Rosetta Bailey, who were married at Brooklin on June 23, 1880. They had 8 children: Charles, Harry Marquis, George Norman, Norman George, Russell Oswald, Jessie, Walter, and Clarence. The family lived in the Brooklin-Whitby area.
Harry M. Bailey (1884-1969) was a general handyman. He lived with his father and mother at 218 Perry Street in Whitby.
Russell O. Bailey (1895-1967) was a foreman at the King Brothers Tannery in Whitby for 35 years and an engineer with the Whitby Malleable Iron and Brass Company. He served with the 116th Battalion during the First World War. In 1919, he married Rose Mary Hill and together they had five daughters, Georgina, Helen, Ruth, Lilian, and Rose.
Lillian Rutherford (1922-2012; nee Bailey) was the fourth daughter of Russell and Rose Mary Bailey.

Bain, Francis (family)
Family

Among early residents of the West Toronto area in 1885, Frances H. Bain Sr. was one of the first employees of the Canadian Pacific Railway to live in the West Toronto Junction. The first two generations of the Bain family were railroad men or railroad wives. Francis H. Bain Sr. came to the West Toronto Junction in 1885 to work for the CPR. Francis H. Bain Jr. worked for the CPR as a holster at the local repair shops; Phoebe Nobel Bain, his wife, was from a Brockton family. Descending from this railway family, Frances Bain, daughter of Francis H. Bain Jr. and Phoebe Nobel, was born in 1912. She was a member of the Don Valley Art Club, the Toronto Region Architectural Conservatory, an advocate of environmental preservation, and an art and nature enthusiast. She volunteered for the Toronto Humane Society and Action Volunteers for Animals, and supported the Art Gallery of Ontario. She worked as a secretary for the local firm McMaster McIntyre & Smyth.

Baker (family)
Family

The Baker family was one of the earlier settler families to arrive in Vaughan Township, emigrating from Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Jonathan Baker purchased Lot 11, Concession 2 (the lands northeast of present day Dufferin and Langstaff) in 1816 and quickly grew his family and his harness shop trade. Various Baker descendants lived on the subject lands until the family farm was eventually sold to developers in 1997. The majority of the Baker family moved back to Pennsylvania following the sale of the land.

Baldwin, William (family)
Family · 1775-

William W. Baldwin (1775-1844) and his son, Robert Baldwin (1804-1858), were lawyers in Ontario, who gained prominence in the administrative affairs of the province and Canada during the nineteenth century.

Ballantyne (family)
Family

The Ballantyne family lived in Downie Township in the 19th century, including Thomas Ballantyne, who was a member of the Ontario legislature.

Barnet, Alexander (family)
Family

The Barnet family operated a lumber business in Renfrew, Ontario during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Alexander Barnet (1840-1917) was a businessman in Renfrew, Ontario, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, owning a lumber company and holding directorships and presidencies for many other businesses in Renfrew. Thomas Foster Barnet (fl. 1917) took control of the family's timber business in Renfrew, Ontario during the early twentieth century.

Bateman Family
Family · 1862 - present

John Willis Bateman was born in Whitby Township on June 5, 1862. He married Elizabeth Tasker of Manchester, UK in Whitby on December 25, 1888. The Batemans were prosperous famers occupying property on what is now Hopkins Street in Whitby for over 65 years.
John served as Mayor of the Town of Whitby from 1926 to 1928 and at different times between 1910 and 1919 he served as Reeve and Councillor. He belonged to the Whitby Baptist Church where he acted as church clerk and deacon. John was a member of the local Composite Lodge, Keystone Chapter, and served as secretary and president for the Sons of England in Whitby. He died while marching in the Remembrance Day Service parade in 1948.
Elizabeth Tasker Bateman was also a prominent member of the Whitby Baptist Church and she belonged to the local chapter of the Daughters of England. She and John sold the farm in 1939 and retired from farming. Elizabeth died in 1956.
John and Elizabeth had two sons, Ralph, who moved to the United States, and John Gordon, known more commonly as Gordon. He was the manager of the Whitby branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce from 1946 to 1950 having worked there for 20 years prior. He was transferred to the Grimsby branch in 1950. Gordon married Laura Cook in Belleville on September 2, 1935 and together had one child, John Frederick Bateman. Gordon died in Beamsville, Ontario on June 18, 1991.

Bates (family)
Family

The Bates family were United Empire Loyalists from Darien, Connecticut who settled in Wellington Square (now Burlington), Ontario and Kings County, New Brunswick.

Baulch, Joseph H. (family)
Family

The Baulch family were tailors who lived in Hampton, Ontario and Port Hope, Ontario. Members of the family include Joseph H. and his wife Laura, Henry N., R. Baulch, and Will Baulch (in England).