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Jan 29, 2015 · Peter Carroll had selected an ideal location for the mansion, overlooking Burlington Bay from the north shore line located at the far western end. Below the mansion sitting high atop its high ground, was a jut of land that ran way out into Burlington Bay.
Mar 4, 2024 · In 1840, Peter Carroll, director of the Great Western Railway, purchased the land around the bay and built a large stone mansion which he called Rock Bay. After his death, Rock Bay was renamed Carroll's Bay in his memory.
Jan 26, 2015 · Peter Carroll has been identified as one of 2 people to introduce commercial peach farming into Upper Canada. Oak trees were planted on either side of the long winding drive heading towards the mansion, beginning when you turned off from the Hamilton and Nelson Gravel Road.
On Carroll's Point, across the bay from Hamilton, George Midwinter erected The Bay View Hotel, and several cottages on land previously owned by Peter Carroll. He had died in 1876, and seven years later Midwinter either bought or leased land, presumably from Carroll's widow.
According to the Dictionary of Hamilton Biography, Peter Carroll (spelled with two r's and two l's) was a surveyor and businessman who "in the early 1840s settled on forty acres of the northwest corner of Burlington Bay in East Flamborough.
Map covers the property of Peter Carrol [currently known as Carroll's Point with double "l" spelling], the Desjardins Canal, and surrounding area. Colour is used to identify water areas as well as a pink polygon with "2 degree curve, Radius of curve 2865 feet" written inside.
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