Dawson heritage (1917)

This family portrait was taken in about 1917 on the family farm at Maple Lake, Ontario.

The Dawson's represented here are the first generation of the family at Maple Lake at the time.

In the back row (left to right):
Joseph Lorne, Garnet Beatty, Irvin Ray, Milton Leslie, Dora Jane, Holly Wilmot, Wallace Henry

In the front row (left to right):
Wesley Vernon, Richard Henry, Stuart William, Mary (nee: Beatty)

Their children's grandparents (Richard's father and mother) Peter and Jane (nee Benson) settled in the area in the well before the 1871 census - he was 71 at that time and surely couldn't have cleared land by then. His parents were Peter and Sarah (nee Sisson).