1820  . . . an English Episcopalian Church should be built . . . on a piece of ground called the School Reserve, on the Carrying Place, for the Townships of Ameliasburgh.
1826  Four miles below the big Otter you enter the township of Houghton which is a school reserve. . . .
1883  These with the odd numbered sections, the school and Hudson's Bay reserves, form such a large part of the country that it will be quite impossible for the district to come in any sense of the term "settled."