(19th century), lighthouse keeper. Thomas Hill was the first keeper of the first lighthouse built on Lake St. Francis. The lighthouse was built in 1844, and was two miles from Lancaster. Thomas Hill is said to have been a war veteran, and had a wooden leg. No doubt he was the Thomas Hill, born in Ireland, a Presbyterian, who was 56 at the time of the 1871 census. His son, also called Thomas, succeeded him in his lighthouse work.

Lovell 1857 269 (“lighthouse keeper”) * Elliott 117 * Fraser (1959) 48, 50 (in chapter on “The Canals and Lights of Lake St. Francis”) * Ross, Lancaster, 103 * Ménard 42 * family: Fraser, Gravestones, II, 28, 38 * Mabel Mossop, Glengarry Life No. 30 (1991) 34 (from Glengarry News 4 April 1984)