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 ====== Fortune, William ======
- (?-?), U E Loyalist and surveyor. Probably a native of Ireland. William Fortune, who fought on the loyal side in the revolutionary war, arrived in Canada as a Loyalist from South Carolina. He was appointed a surveyor in the Province of Quebec, 1788. In the same year he received for his services to the crown a tract of 1000 acres of land on the Ottawa River in the area of what is today the village of Pointe-Fortune. Pointe-Fortune is named after him. Until the 1830s Pointe-Fortune was an important transportation centre for travellers on the Ottawa River and the adjacent portions of what is now Eastern Ontario. William Fortune was active as a surveyor in the newly-established Upper Canada in the 1790s. See the entry for his son Joseph Fortune for the surveys they shared close to the GC borders.
+ (?-?), U E Loyalist and surveyor. Probably a native of Ireland. William Fortune, who fought on the loyal side in the revolutionary war, arrived in Canada as a Loyalist from South Carolina. He was appointed a surveyor in the Province of Quebec, 1788. In the same year he received for his services to the crown a tract of 1000 acres of land on the Ottawa River in the area of what is today the village of Pointe-Fortune. Pointe-Fortune is named after him. Until the 1830s Pointe-Fortune was an important transportation centre for travellers on the Ottawa River and the adjacent portions of what is now Eastern Ontario. William Fortune was active as a surveyor in the newly-established Upper Canada in the 1790s. See the entry for his son [[fortune_joseph|Joseph Fortune]] for the surveys they shared close to the GC borders.