Plaque du capitaine William Gilkison

THE FOUNDER OF ELORA

Captain William Gilkison (1777-1833) was born in
Ayrshire, Scotland, and emigrated to North America in
1796. He served with the British forces in the War of
1812 as an assistant quartermaster-general and, in 1832
purchased some 14,000 acres of land in Nichol Township.
He selected this area at the falls of the Grand River as a
town site for his proposed settlement and named it Elora.
It was laid out by Lewis Burwell, deputy provincial land
surveyor, late in 1832, and the following year, Gilkison
established a sawmill and a general store. The founder
of Elora died in April 1833 before the full results of his
foresight and enterprise were achieved.

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