Microreproduction of original published： Port Alberni, B.C. : E. Leeson, 1972. 52 p.

Includes Hall, Harrigan, Hoare, Markle, Nodwell, Sim and related families.

James Leeson married Anna Collier, and the family immigrated in 1842 from Ireland (via New York to homestead land near Orangeville, Peel County, Ontario. Descendants and relatives lived in Ontario, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Washington and elsewhere in the United States. Other descendants immigrated to New South Wales in Australia.