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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL,. DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL NOTES. 
THE DISTRICT OF GORE. 
Note 1, page 3. 
The district of Gore was formed in 1816 out of the Niagara and Home 
districts by a Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, who gave it his own 
name. It consisted of two new counties, named (1) Wentworth, in honour 
of Mrs. Gore’s family name, and (2) Halton, in honour of Governor Gore’s 
private secretary. Mrs. Gore’s uncle was the well-known loyalist, Sir John 
Wentworth, the last royal Governor of New Hampshire, and subsequently 
Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia. Wentworth originally comprised the 
townships of Saltfleet (including Burlington Beach), Barton (including Bur- 
lington Heights), Binbrook, Glanford, Ancaster, and so much of the county : 
of Haldimand as lies between Dundas Street and the village of Onondaga, 
commonly called Bearsfoot. 
Halton was composed of the townships of Trafalgar, Nelson, Hast and 
West Flamboro’, Dumfries, Waterloo, Woolwich, and Nichol, together with 
the reserved lands in the rear of Blenheim and Blanford. See “ Historical 
Sketch of the County of Wentworth and Head of the Lake,” by J. H. Smith 
(Hamilton, 1897), pp. 76-78. Also an article by H. F. Gardiner in ‘‘ Pioneers 
of One Hundred Years Ago,” edited by Minnie Jean Nisbet (Hamilton, 1900). 
Of Governor Wentworth, Sabine says in ‘“ Loyalists of the American 
Revolution ” (vol. 2, p. 411): ‘In my judgment, not one of the public men 
of the time who clung to the royal cause will go down to posterity with a 
more enviable fame.” For sketches of his life see: Gardiner’s “Nothing 
but Names,” (infra, p. 17) pp. 261-264, and Sabine, as above. His administra- 
tion of the affairs of Nova Scotia was conspicuous for the general prosperity 
of the province, and he died respected by all classes and parties, though in his 
public career he was somewhat unfair to Mr. Tonge, the Liberal leader, of 
whose opinions as an old Loyalist he was always too suspicious. For inter- 
esting accounts of his old home in New Hampshire, read Marion Harland’s 
“More Colonial Homesteads ” (New York, 1899), pp. 380 et seg.; Drake’s 
“Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast ” (New York, 1875), pp. 196 
et seq. 
