Auld Kirk Presbyterian Cemetery

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The Scotch Settlement is seen as the founding settlement of the West Gwillimbury area and South Simcoe County. Auld Kirk Cemetery marks the place where many of the Selkirk settlers came finally to rest. The story is one of the best known of Ontario pioneer tales. At the time of the "Clearances" when cottages and people were being swept by the landlords from the pastures of the Scottish Highlands to make way for the more profitable use of sheep farming, a group of families were forced to leave their homes in the Strath of Kildonan in Sutherlandshire, Scotland. It was 1813.


3380 Line 6
Bradford West Gwillimbury,  ON





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