The arrival of English (U.K.) people in the area.

c. 1800: John and Charles Schneider (Hessians) settle at Point Cavagnol. Schneider's Inn is built about eight years later.

1802: The parish of Ste-Madeleine is founded at Rigaud.

1810: The Halcro family settles in the Rigaud area. This family was originally from the Orkneys. James Halcro came to North America as a Hudson's Bay Company employee. He worked for "the company" in the West for approximately ten plus years, and arrived in the Cavagnol area following an overland voyage from Hudson Bay Territory. (See item below.)

1811: The Cote St. Charles area is surveyed by James Fortune. One of the first settlers in this area is Solomon Grout, a school teacher.

c. 1811: Scottish settlers arrive from the Northwest. One of the earliest, if not the earliest, group of English-speaking people to settle in the Hudson area was a small party of Scots, who came overland from the Hudson Bay Territory under the leadership of Governor Thomas. (It should be noted here that this was an especially treacherous journey, both because of the difficulty of the terrain and because of the state of war that prevailed at the time between the Hudson Bay people and Northwest Company people. No other group ever attempted the journey from Hudson Bay to the Montreal area overland.) One of their scouts (see James Halcro above) arrived in the area around 1810 or early 1811, and the main party arrived soon thereafter, c. 1812. Governor Thomas settled in the vicinity of what is today Mount Victoria, and Robert Longmore, an Edinburgh-born explorer (1774 - pre 1814), and the first white man on the South Saskatchewan River, settled in the vicinity of what would later become known as Alstonvale. See The Dictionary of Canadian Biography for Longmore's story. (Longmore has a large number of both Catholic and Protestant descendents in the area. (Grays, Halcros, Stevensons, Metcalf(e)s.) We do not know if Longmore's partner on his travels on the South Saskatchewan, William Pink, came to the area with this overland partyin fact, we think not - but we do know that Pink's daughter, Sarah, who was married to Longmore, did make the trip with her husband and the rest of the small group of Scots.

1817: The first known visit of a Methodist circuit rider (W. Case) to the area.

1817: William Coley Whitlock comes into possession of land that is currently owned by The Whitlock Golf and County Club.

1819: Cornelius Cook sells a piece of land for use as a Protestant cemetery.

c. 1819: The first steamship makes its appearance on the Ottawa River.

1819-1829: English-speaking settlers in the area.

1820s: English families from the Cumberland district of England arrive in the area and initially settle on St. Henri Road on Rigaud Mountain. With the passage of time, some families moved to Cote St. Charles Road, and eventually into what is now the Hudson area proper.

1822: The Seigneur dies, and leaves the Seigneurie de Vaudreuil to his eldest daughter, and the Seigneurie de Rigaud to his second daughter.

1830-32: Irish settlers arrive in the area. A number of Irish families coming either directly from Ireland or from other places in Quebec (i.e., St. Columban) arrive in the area and initially build log-cabins for themselves on St. George road on Rigaud Mountain. Eventually many will settle on farms to the south (Ste-Marthe) and east (Fief St. George) of the mountain. (This community of Irish is rather sizable for the times. By mid century, as many as one-hundred-twenty-five (125) households will trace their presence in the area to this migration. However, unlike the Cumberland people, many of the descendants of these Irish families will migrate to eastern Ontario (Alfred and environs) and then the U.S. (Ohio, North Dakota, Illinois, New York), particularly in the years between 1885 and 1910.)

1837-38: Political instability in the area. See Robert-Lionel Seguin, Le Mouvement Insurrectionnel dans la Presqu'ile de Vaudreuil, 1837-1838, (Montreal: Librairie Ducharme Limite, 1955). This is a most important study on the subject of the 1937-1838 rebellion in the area.

1842: The founding of the Anglican parish of St. James in what is known today as Hudson Heights. With the arrive of English Protestant peoples in the area, it was inevitable that the religious needs of these peoples would make themselves felt. For some twenty years religious services for Anglicans had been conducted at the fort at Coteau du Lac, but that was some fifteen or so miles from the Hudson area, and required that one travel over some difficult road that were virtually impassable in winter. As a result, by the early 1840s, Anglicans began constructing a church for themselves in Hudson Heights.

1844: The founding of Ste-Marthe parish, and the spread of Irish from the mountain into the flat lands southeast of the mountain. Prior to 1844, the area known to us as Ste-Marthe was part of the parish of Ste-Madeleine de Rigaud.

1845: The establish of the Ottawa Glass works in what is today the Como area of Hudson.

1865: The parish of Ste-Justine de Newton is founded.

1877: The parish of St. Lazare in the county of Vaudreuil is founded.

1877: No more advertisements in Montreal newspapers relative to any glass works in Hudson area.

1881: No traces left in printed, census, etc., record relative to glass works in the Hudson area.

1885: Efforts are made by the Diocese of Montrealof which, at the time, the civil county of Vaudreuil was a part - to establish a Catholic mission in the Harwood Road area (Alstonvale), on a piece of land owned by Mr. Abraham Seguin. No doubt this was owing to the large number of French farmers in the area at the time, many of whom were Seguins. Father Chatillon, the mission priest, stays in the area for a few months, but eventually is forced to recognize that this mission is not going to be a success. It is not till twelve years later that the establishment of a Catholic mission in what is presently central Hudson is successful. By this time, the civil county of Vaudreuil had been annexed to the recently created Diocese of Valleyfield.

1890: On February 17th the first train belonging to Vaudreuil-Prescott Railway Co. passes through Hudson on its way to Rigaud. This company undergoes a name change on March 26, 1890. The new name will be the Montreal-Ottawa Railway Co. On November 15th, 1892 is will become the Canadian Pacific, and it will keep this name to this day.

1897: October -- The founding of the Roman Catholic mission of St. Thomas Aquinas in Hudson. The priest in charge of the mission is Fr. Alphonse Reid. Fr. Reid will direct the destinies of the mission until 1923.

1898: April 13th -- The first private Catholic school in Hudson opens its doors. Class is held for a brief period in the private residence of the priest in charge of the mission, Fr. Alphonse Reid, after which time it is moved to another private residence. Thirty students attend at a cost of 0.25 cents per month.