Statutes of Ontario 1902 Chap. 64STATUTES OF ONTARIO 1902 Chap. 64
An Act to change the name of the Town of Tilsonburg
to the Town of Tillsonburg
Assented to 17th March, 1902.
WHEREAS by an Act passed ih the 35th year of the reign
of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, chaptered 41, the Police
Village of Tilsonburg and adjacent territories were constituted
a body corporate, mµnicipal and politic, under the name of the
Corporation of the Town of Tilsonburg; and whereas it was
intended that the said town should be named after George Tillson,
the original founder of the said town, but by inadvertence or
clerical error the name of the town was spelled Tilsonburg instead
of Tillsonburg, and wheieas the municipal council of the said town
has by petition reprpsented that Ej D: Tillson$ a son of the said
George Tillson, has been the most promineht citizen of the said
town from its incorporation Until his death on the 31st day of
January, 1902, and has been so closely identified with everything
connected therewith and has rendered to the place so mahy valuable
and enduring services through the years referred to that it is
now strongly desired that the error above mentioned should be
corrected and the name of Tillson properly incorporated in the
town; and whereas the municipal council of the said town has
passed a by-law declaring that in the opinion of the said council
the said name should be changed and by the said petition has
prayed that the name of the said town should hereafter be
Tillsonburg; and whereas there is no opposition to the said
petition; and whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of
the said petition.
Therefore His Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario,
enacts as follows: -
1. The name of the Municipal Corporation of the Town of
Tilsonburg shall be and the same is changed to Tillsonburg,
and the said municipal corporation shall be hereafter known
and described as the Corporation of the Town of Tillsonburg.