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Quebec Vital and Church records: baptismal record, Chalmers Church (Presbyterian), Quebec City:

"Kenneth Hugh daughter (??) of John J. Dewar and Agnes Thompson, his wife, born 13 January, 1883 and baptized this 25th day of April, same year."

From 1911 census, Ward 5, sub-district 47, Toronto West:
Kenneth Dewar and Florence Hattibel Dewar, both Presbyterian, of Scottish background.
Address: 20 Dawson
Kenneth listed as a traveller (salesman) for a stationary company.

Kenneth married Florence Hattibel FRASER on 2 Oct 1907 in Toronto, Ontario. Florence (daughter of John Bell FRASER and Frances S. MCLEAN) was born about 1886 in Brockville, Ontario; died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Quebec Vital and Church Records: marriage record for Chalmer's Church (Presbyterian) Quebec City:
"John James Dewar of the Town of Galt, Ontario, merchant [--?] and Agnes Thompson of the City of Quebec, spinster, were married this first day of November, 1875".

1891 census for St. Stephens Ward, District 119, Toronto City:
John J. Dewar, 35, b. in Quebec, lumber clerk, father b. in Quebec, mother b. in Scotland
Agnes Dewar, 30, b. in Quebec, mother and father b. in Scotland
Geo. T. Dewar, 14, b. in Quebec
Mabel Dewar, 11, b. in Quebec
Kenneth Dewar, 8, b. in Quebec
Marian Dewar, 4, b. in Ontario
Family Presbyterian, Scottish background.

1901 census for Ward 4, District 118, sub-district B-49, Toronto West:
John J. Dewar, 50, b. 17 Sep. 1850 in Quebec, bookkeeper
Agnes Dewar, 44, b. 24 July 1856 in Quebec
Geo. T. Dewar, 24, b. 30 Aug. 1876 in Quebec, insurance clerk
Mabel Dewar, 21, b. 14 Sep. 1879 in Quebec
Kenneth Dewar, 17, b. 13 Jan. 1883 in Quebec, clerk, sales
Marian Dewar, 13, b. 9 Jun 1884 in Ontario
Collin G. Dewar, 7, b. 26 Oct 1893 in Ontario
Family Presbyterian, Scottish background.

1911 census for Ward 4, sub-district 13, Toronto North:
John J. Dewar, 60, b. Sep. 1850 in Quebec, self-employed lumber merchant
Agnes T. Dewar, 54, b. July 1856 in Quebec
George L. Dewar, 34, b. Aug. 1876 in Quebec, underwriter in insurance company
Marion Dewar, 23, b. Jun 1884 in Ontario, no occupation
Collin Dewar), 21, b. Oct 1889 in Ontario, bank clerk
Family Presbyterian, Scottish background.

John married Agnes THOMPSON on 1 Nov 1875 in Chalmer's Church, Quebec City. Agnes was born on 24 Jul 1856 in Quebec; died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Information about the family of John Bell fraser came from the publication "Association of Ontario Land Surveyors Committee on Biography" [https://www.aols.org/sites/default/files/Fraser-T.pdf].The same publication showed that John Bell Fraser was physician, who graduated from the Royal Military College in Kingston. Before moving to Toronto he practiced in Spencerville. After moving to Toronto, the family resided at 414 Sherbourne Street.

John married Frances S. MCLEAN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1851 census for District 33, sub-district 526 St. Andre, Deux Montagnes County, Canada East:
Hugh Dewar, farmer, 42, b. Canada
Jane Dewar, 40, b. Scotland
Catherine Dewar, b. Scotland, 70
Margaret Dewar, b. Canada, 5
William Dewar, b. Canada, 4
John Dewar, b. Canada, 2
Probably Catherine Dewar was Hugh's mother. She would have been born about 1781.

1861 census for Argenteuil, Canada East:
Hugh Dewar, gentleman, 50, b. Lower Canada
Jane Todd, wife, 50, b. Scotland
Margaret Dewar, 14, b. Lower Canada
William Dewar, 12, b. Lower Canada
John Dewar, 11, b. Lower Canada

1871 census for Ottawa District 77, By Ward sub-district:
Hugh Dewar, civil servant, 60, b. Quebec
Jane Todd, wife, 55, b. Scotland
Margueritte Dewar, 18, b. Quebec
John J. Dewar, 20, b. Quebec

1891 census for Russell District 115, New Edinburgh Ward, Ontario:
Hugh Dewar, 81, b. Quebec, farmer, widower, Congregational, parents born in Scotland
Margaret Dewar, 44, b. Quebec

Hugh’s descendants have a grandfather clock, whose inscription says it was brought from Killin, Scotland in 1804 by Duncan and Catherine Dewar to St. Andrew's Parish, Argenteuil, in Lower Canada. Killin is a parish in the western part of Perthshire. The inscription further states that it was placed in the clock in 1925 by John Dewar of Toronto. Old parish records for Killin reveal 67 Dewars or Deors born between 1740 and 1785, including 7 Duncans and 7 Johns. Hundreds of Dewars were born in the whole of Perthshire in this period.

Hugh Dewar died on March 14, 1900, and was buried on March 16 in Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa. the Beechwood Cemetery burial record (Ottawa Archives microfilm #79, entry 8190) states that Hugh was 89 years old, born at St. Andrew's, Quebec. He died of "general debility", and was residing in the Home for the Aged in Ottawa. St. Andrew's a parish in Argenteuil County, which was largely settled by Scottish immigrants in the early 1800s, and which later became known as St. Andre d'Argenteuil. The burial record further states that Hugh's parents were Duncan and Catherine Dewar. The Burial plot was designated R8A, G17 (although the handwriting is hard to read). The informant was W.A. Laub, a friend of the deceased.

It is possible that Hugh and his brothers were related to a John Dewar who was a United Empire Loyalist, who had fought for the crown in the American Revolution, and who settled in Missisquoi County, Quebec at the end of the Revolution. John Dewar and his wife Mary McDiarmid supported several nephews and nieces (it is not clear if they had children of their own). One of the nephews was named Duncan - the son of John's deceased brother Daniel. More information about John Dewar and his relation to Hugh Dewar and his cousins is in the Notes for Margaret McCallum (1781-1826), who was the wife of Hugh's cousin Duncan.

Hugh married Jane TODD. Jane was born about 1811 in Scotland; died before 1891. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Thomas Fraser studied surveying and engineering at Auburn, N.Y. He was appointed a land surveyor for Upper Canada in 1825. Together with surveyors William H. Kilborn and Thomas Burrows, he surveyed for parts of the Rideau Canal. He also surveyed in Lennox, Addington and Frontenac Counties. He served a term in the army in Haiti. He supported the Reform party in politics, and was a Methodist.