Ottawa at 200 years an on

3 June 2019

I wish to list the details of the 100th and 99th Regiments, settlers of Richmond.
 Most of this will be known and I'll detail;
The 100th regiment was raised in Ireland in 1804 and sailed to Canada in 1805.
Was involved in the war of 1812.
The 95th Regiment and a part of the 60th regiment were moved into the Rifle Brigade
The powers that be, Horse Guards, did not like a gap in  regiment numbering.
So the old 96th became the 95th and so on. the 100th became the 99th Regiment.
This happened in February 1816. Anyways most of these regiments would soon
be disbanded. There is a web site which lists this info and much more.
Web site is  bytown.net/richmond_ms.htm
One of the items is 'Re-numbering regiments in 1816'. A good read.
This may be a better website.
freepages.rootsweb.com/~crossroads/genealogy/barry.99th_regiment.html

Next, I have info on three settlers in Brant Twp/Bruce County. They are sons of
original settlers in Richmond Military Settlement who moved after 1850.
One is in my extended family and the other two are William James Garland,
b. 1826 and George Keys, a cousin of W.J. Garland
Jim Stanzell     jim.stanzell@sympatico.ca