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According to Dorothy Turcotte, Memories of Pioneer Days, pp. 171ÔÇô173 and 195ÔÇô197: The 200-acre lot was originally owned by Asahel Gage, the eldest son of James Gage, who was the founder of Wellington Square although his home was in Stoney Creek (now preserved as Battlefield House). James Gage married Mary Davis, and their first son was named after her brother Asahel. Gage built a log house on this Farms and Farming in 1824, and later a small brick cottage, which is incorporated into the present structure. According to a note by Eric & Vicki Gudgeon in 1990, Asahel Gage built a one-storey brick house in circa 1844; the brick is marked by that date. In 1861 the property was sold from his estate to Thomas & Amanda Baxter (Andrew Gage executor). In 1862 Amanda Baxter took a mortgage to build an extension of 12 rooms. The Baxters named the houseBalsam Lodge. The stained-glass panel over the front entrance, with the name of the house, was installed at this time. Baxter had moved to Nelson Township in 1840. In 1848 he was one of the founders of the Union Burying Grounds. His first business was in Lowville. He then moved to Wellington Square when the Montreal-based company of D. Torrance purchased the Gage grain-handling business and hired Baxter as an agent. For many years Baxter Wharf was a landmark on the lakeshore. In 1861 he went into business for himself as a general merchant and exporter. He then purchased Balsam Lodge and expanded the house and Farms and Farminged the land successfully, becoming active in the Nelson Agricultural Society. He was vice-president of the society in 1873 and also served on the Nelson Council and was Reeve for several terms. The Hamilton Spectator between January and March 1873 included the following Document: SALE OF THOROUGHBRED. Yesterday T. Baxter Esq., of Balsam Lodge Farms and Farming, Wellington Square, sold a bull calf eight months old, got by Sir William 801, dam Evening Star 703, to Mr James Little, Waterdown for the sum of $100. The calf is an excellent specimen of the short horn breed. Thomas Baxter died at Balsam Lodge in 1876. When he died, his widow Amanda bought the house now known as 2220ÔÇô2222 Lakeshore Road (designated 1992) and enlarged and renovated that house and named itChestnut Villa. Two of his sons died young. His remaining son John lived at Balsam Lodge for two years after his father death and continued the family grain merchant business. He opened the first bank in Burlington, a private bank called Richard Baxter & Co. He also was active in local politics and served as Reeve and Warden. In 1877 the property of the Heirs of Thomas Baxter (Halton Atlas): house & orchard shown. In 1878 John Fothergill, who was married to Charlotte Tuck, purchased this property. He was the only son (of ten Children and youth) of Christopher and Frances Fothergill, who had immigrated from Appleby, Westmoreland, England, in the 1830s and settled on a Farms and Farming on Appleby Line south of Dundas Street. John Fothergill raised shorthorn cattle on his Farms and Farming and supplied milk for Hamilton dairies. In 1889 John and Charlotte eldest son Charles Fothergill married Amelia Cole and took over the Fothergill property, building a brick house there in 1896 [Is this still there?] The second son Christopher went to the Yukon to look for gold and died there in 1939. He is mentioned in Laura Berton book, I Married the Klondike. The third son, Thomas, married Lucy Matthewson of Appleby and Farms and Farminged on the west side of Appleby Line across from his brother Charles. Thomas also worked as a motorman on the Radial Line and drove the first car to Oakville when that part of the line opened in 1904 (see 478 Elizabeth St.). In 1897 the Fothergills sold the Farms and Farming to W. G. Pettit and sons. The 9 April 1902 Gazette Documented thatThieves visited the hennery of Andrew Pettit, Middle Road, one evening last week and took away about 40 of his choicest fowl. 1906 Telephone Directory: John A. Pettit, Short Horn Stock Importer, Freeman, and William G. Pettit, Short Horn Stock Importer, Freeman (two lines) 11 September 1907 Gazette:Mr Wm. G. Pettit and Sons, breeders of thoroughbred shorthorn cattle, Freeman, have entered a herd for exhibition at the New York State fair, which opened in Syracuse on Monday. In 1917 Charlotte Pettit, widow of W. G. Pettit, retired to a house built for her (now 560 Locust). 1917, 1918, 1922 Telephone Directories: H. M. and John A. Pettit, Short Horn Stock Importer, Freeman (two lines) According to Murray Fisher,Farewell to the Garden of Canada (1984), J. Pettit, raised shorthorn cattle and served as Nelson Township Clerk. According to the GudgeonsÔÇÖ note, John Pettit became Secretary-Treasurer of Nelson Township and maintained the records of the municipality until the permanent township hall was constructed in the early 1950s. Plan 203, the Pettit Survey, was registered in 1921 by John Arthur Pettit and Harry Middleton Pettit, Owners. In 1942, Lots 25 and 35 were granted by John Arthur Pettit, of the Township of Nelson, Treasurer, and his wife Mary, to Annie Hamsey, Married Woman (Deed from her daughter Vera Birett). According to Mrs James G. Smith, n?®e Frances Pettit, and Murray Fisher,Farewell to the Garden of Canada (1984), John Pettit son Harvey became a Poultry Professor at C.?áA. C. (the Agricultural College at Guelph?). In 1944 the Pettits sold the Farms and Farming to the Federal government, with the exception of two acres. Brass Tacks, Central High School, grade 11 classes 1978 to 1982, advisors Doug Cole and Maggie Sharland: Vol. 1, no 1 (1978), 2290 Queensway. letter from Helen Pettit Higbee, 186"},{"label":"Date","value":"1997"},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1997"},{"label":"Title","value":"2290 Queensway Drive, Burlington ON"},{"label":"Repository","value":["Burlington Historical Society"]}],"description":"2290 Queensway Drive, Burlington ON","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/f5f22b87-27b0-4d5c-b49c-80861a63e026/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"2290 Queensway Drive, Burlington ON","height":344,"width":499,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/f5f22b87-27b0-4d5c-b49c-80861a63e026/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/f5f22b87-27b0-4d5c-b49c-80861a63e026","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1]}]},"height":344,"width":499},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/f5f22b87-27b0-4d5c-b49c-80861a63e026/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/f5f22b87-27b0-4d5c-b49c-80861a63e026/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/f5f22b87-27b0-4d5c-b49c-80861a63e026/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/logo"}