Join Desert Museum botany staff and docents on Mt. Lemmon for a day filled with butterflies and flowers! Next Saturday (August 20), we will focus on the identification of the butterflies that we spot and their relationships with flowering plants and trees.
In 1832 Jed Jackson had the contract for carrying mail from Brantford to London twice a week along the Old Stage Road. On October 6, 1835, a post office was established at Woodstock, Ontario, with Princeton following within two years. According to the Legislative Council Sessional Papers for 1846, a post office was established at Princeton on May 6, 1836 and Jeremiah Cowin was appointed postmaster on May 9, 1837. The sureties were George Beamer and Silas Martin to the amount of Â£200. The assistant was John Charles.
Of interest regarding the establishment of new post offices in the area is a letter in the possession of Mrs. G. Greig of Brantford. This letter, dated July 12, 1832, is from John Lesslie at the Dundas post office to Thomas Hornor.