John Boughen and grandniece.

A John Boughen story [2011]:
The arrival of the Boughen family at Port Hope from England in 1874.
I don't know exactly how they got to Port Hope, either by boat, or more likely by train (once they got to Canada that is).
They probably stayed overnight at the inn [Blackham's Hotel] beside the Midland Railway roundhouse. That building is still there just west of the Canadian Tire store that is now closed.
I have been in that house about 5 years ago, and while there, was informed of its early history.
The next day the Boughen family boarded the Midland train to go north into Hope Township, and this part of the story I do know.
My great-grandfather Edmund, my great-grandmother Susan Porter Brown Boughen, and my grandfather John, who was 4 years old, and his siblings got the train at the Midland station, which was just west of where the Bandshell in the park is now, and then the train headed north up Lent's Lane, across Walton Street and out Ontario Street by the Ganny hotel, over the bridge and then followed the river north for a while.
As the train approached Quay's Crossing on the 5th line it stopped and the Boughens got off, to then be taken by horse and buggy to Elizabethville where they first lived and farmed.
My Dad, Harvey, told me that uncle Asa Hurl saw the Boughen's get off the train at Quay's Crossing. He was a young boy at the time and the Hurls then lived at Rossmount. Uncle Asa eventually married Irene, one of my grandfather John's sisters.



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