James Sieveright was a Scottish-born

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farmer and community leader. He was born in

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about 1812, the son of

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parents, and came to

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with his parents in 1824. He became the first reeve of

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in 1850 and served a second term as reeve in 1865. Sieveright was also captain in the local militia and justice of the peace. In 1858, he married Isabella P. Smith. The memory of James Sieveright remains in the name of a road in that township, in an area formerly rural but now part of Ottawa's

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suburb.

References

* ''Historical Sketch of the County of Carleton'' (1971) - originally published in 1879, reprinted by Mika Press, Belleville, Ontario Mayors and reeves of Gloucester Township, Ontario Scottish emigrants to pre-Confederation Ontario Canadian people of Scottish descent Immigrants to Upper Canada {{Ontario-mayor-stub