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s9 ..]_]__ The taxes for 1953 were $87.45. For 1963 they were 4206.63. I am in possession of a few small relics of the past, the most important of which is my Greatâ€"grandfather Hanbly's old muzzle-loader. This gun is known to have killed at least one bear. The total present acreage of Hambly property in Purple Valley is 191 acres. The buildings are on Lot 26, facing the 23th sideroad, about midway on the lot. The farm was never named. My father and_nother have both passed on, and it is my earnest intention to purchase the hambly property as soon as the deal can be arranged. In that way this property will still be in the Hambly name. THE MACIVOR SETTLEMENT (As written by Donald Maclvorâ€"brother) At the upper or northern end of the 12th line were the Laclvor, Holler (Jacob and Andrew) Forbes and Duncan families and later the MacLeans, Bittorfs and Urbshotts and others. In the autumn and winter of 1869â€"70 John Maclvor7 Hilliam Fraser, and John Redmond came from Stanley TOwnship, Huron Co. and John Maclvor took up lots for himself and father, Robert Maclvor. They spent the winter chopping a fellow Which was the nucleus of the settlement of Lones. Hollers, Duncens, Scales, Coveneys, Forbes, and others, Urbshotts and Lebbs which followed on the l2th and 14th concessions of Albemarle. Returning to Huron in the spring the settlement predect was abandoned for some three years which John LacIvo‘ spent in work and travel in Canada and United States especially in the lumber woods and mills of these two countries. Deciding to settle down he, along with his father and family, numbering fifteen moved to their new homesteads in June 1873, coming by boat to Southampton and then through the bush driving some cows and oxen before them and conveying chickens and household effects by jumper and on their backs. James B. Lone married Rachael Maclvor and for s0me years lived on Lot ll, later moving to Sault Ste Larie when this lot also became a part of the Albemarle Stock Farm. In 1886, the Robert Maclvor family moved to Lion's Head and that property also reverted to the Albemarle Stock Farm.