Windsor, Québec, Canada (Windsor Mills)
1832 - WINDSOR,

township, in the co. of Sherbrooke, lies between Shipton and Stoke, and is bounded N.E. by Wotton; S.W. by the R. St Francis. This is a fine tract of land, the soil excellent ans so happily varied that almost every kind of agricultural produce may be grown, particularly hemp and flax. The surface is undulated by moderate elevations that are well clothed with maple, beech, birch, and fir-trees of good size; on the flat lands ash and cedar prevail. A few swamps occur here and there, but they are of so trifiing a depth as to be drained with very little trouble, and might be converted into excellent meadows. - Watered by two large streams and several small ones running into the St. Francis. - Notwithstanding the superior excellence of the land, this township is badly settled; but the whole has been granted to the officers and privates of the Canadian militia, who served in 1775 and 6; it was intended as some compensation for their past services, but scarcely any of them were inclined to make the most advantage of the reward by turning their swords into ploughshares and themselves into industrious cultivators; instead of which they preferred disposing of their lots for whatever present profit they could turn them to: indeed, the lands granted in this manner have been almost generally neglected.

Population 151
Corn-mills 1

A Topographical Dictionary of The Province of Lower Canada by Joseph Bouchette, Esq., London, 1832

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