Lockhart Farmstead

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Building and maintaining a farmstead like this one, which typically has four buildings (house, smoke-house, outhouse and barn), took the labour of the entire family with little time for leisure. The United Empire Loyalists were granted land in British North America in return for their loyalty to the Crown during the American Revolution. Many of these early settlers had limited knowledge of farming and were even less prepared for clearing the wilderness. #1790s #Canada #Conservation_Authority #Farmstead #Hamilton #heritage #Lockhart #Ontario #Village #Westfield