Description
The Watt-Argo Collection is a series of fourteen letters written
to Barbara Argo Watt (Mrs. Alexander Watt) in the Bon Accord Settlement,
Nichol Township, Wellington County, Ontario, by relatives in the
Parishes of Tarves and Foveran, in the Formartine District of Aberdeenshire,
Scotland, 1837-64.
The letters are of particular value, because Alexander Watt was
one of three initiators of the Bon Accord Settlement, and the settlers
in general, all of whom came from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, were
a relatively literate and articulate group. One of their first activities
in the new settlement, after housing themselves, was to found a
Debating Society and Library in 1836, literally in the middle of
the bush.
