====== Taillon ====== family who took out land in Northern Ontario and followed “bush farming” and formed with their Brebant family connections a colony or settlement of their own nine miles north of Charlton. The settlement group left the Cornwall area for Charlton on 25 February 1911. (//Glengarry News// 3 March 1911) Headed by Nelson Taillon and his wife, it included their sons Frank, Ben, Mitchell, Louis and Alex, also Mr and Mrs John Brebant (Mrs Brebant, née Annie Taillon, was the daughter of Mrs and Mrs Nelson Taillon), and Mr and Mrs Frank Brebant (he a nephew of John Brebant). They took their own horses, cattle and household effects with them by train. Nelson Taillon had previously made the arrangements for securing what are reported to have been some 5000 acres of land for the group. The migrants settled on 160-acre lots, which had to be cleared of forest and some of the timber sold for pulpwood. Later, Joseph Taillon, another son, and his wife joined the group. Nelson Taillon, also known as Nelson Tyo and Big Nelson Tyo, was described in 1911 as being from Findlay’s Bridge (Finney’s Bridge), which is between Williamstown and Lancaster in GC. Nelson Taillon died in the colony at the age of 75. In 1938 his widow was still in the colony, at the age of 87. John Brebant was born at Martintown on 17 Feb. 1871. On 10 Feb. 1910, as a widower (formerly married to Mary Kinghorn), he married Annie Taillon. John Brebant sold out his property in the colony and with his wife, who had disliked northern life, he resettled in Cornwall in August 1928. There is a detailed and highly-interesting description of the Taillon-Brebant venture into northern “bush farming” in a Down the Lane column (based on an interview with John Brebant) in the Cornwall //Standard-Freeholder// of 5 Sept. 1938. The columnist said that “most of them [the original settlers] are there still.” The town of Charlton, which at that time had about 500 inhabitants, was destroyed by a bush fire in Oct. 1922, but was rebuilt. The Taillon movement to the Charlton area belongs to the remarkably-large GC surge towards new land about this time, most of the sought-for land, of course, being in the prairie provinces. (See, for example, //Glengarry News// 11 March 1910 on the current spring’s push to Sask.) GC already had a place called Tyotown (two miles north of Glen Walter, with its own post office 1887-1913), and with the 1911 migrants, a //Glengarrry News// writer declared, a new Tyotown was starting up in the forests of Northern Ontario. ---- //Glengarry News// and //Standard Freeholder// as cited, also //GN// 7 Oct. 1910 [<6>]