Category: Arnprior, Canada West
Categories: McNab Township, Canada West
For events before 1841, see Arnprior, Upper Canada.
Located in McNab Township, Renfrew County, on Lake des Chats (a widening of the Ottawa River at the mouth of the Madawaska River) and County Roads 1 & 2, just off Highway 17.
In 1823, Archibald McNab, 13th chief of the Clan McNab, came to Upper Canada with 80 Scottish Highlanders and took control of an unsettled township, which he named after himself. In 1831, McNab met George and Andrew Buchanan in Montreal and persuaded them to settle in his township. The Buchanans named the place Arnprior after McNab's ancestral home in Scotland. In the 1850s Daniel McLachlin built a massive sawmill at the confluence of the Madawaska and Ottawa rivers and expanded the community of Arnprior.
For events after 1867, see Arnprior, Ontario.
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