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Person
Paterson, James
1814-
Born in 1814, James Paterson left his employment as a blanket weaver in Dundee, Scotland, and emigrated to Canada with his wife and two sons, Robert and William, in 1842. The family lived first in Milne's Hollow east of Toronto (1842), then River Humber west of Toronto (1845), and Caledonia west of Hamilton where James suffered from Malaria in 1852. In the same year the family traveled to and settled near Meaford, Ontario, building a log house ("Blantyre") which would reside in the family until 1963.