Sandwich
A town in Essex County, Ontario; first settled in 1750 by
the soldiers of a disbanded French regiment. It was subsequently named
after the town of Sandwich, in Kent, England. =Index=: (General Brock era) Military
fort, 59; occupied by United States general, Hull, 209, 213; evacuated
by Americans, 248. (Baldwin / La Fontaine / Hincks era) Early municipal government of, 298. =Bib.=:
Lovell, Gazetteer of Canada.