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About Paul Holland Knowlton
- Paul Holland Knowlton (September 17, 1787 – August 28, 1863) was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada and Canada East. He was born in Newfane, Vermont in 1787, the son of Silas Knowlton (1764-1844) and Lucinda Holbrook, and the grandson of Luke Knowlton.
- He came to Lower Canada in 1798 with his family.
- After his mother died two years later, he went back to Newfane to live with his grandparents and complete his schooling.
- In 1807, he moved back to Stukely Township in Lower Canada.
- Knowlton settled on Brome Lake in Brome Township where he established a farm, general store and distillery.
- In 1830, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Shefford County.
- Knowlton voted against the Ninety-Two Resolutions.
- He helped set up the Shefford County Agricultural Society and served as president.
- In 1834, he set up a sawmill in a new location and added a store and gristmill; this was to become the site of a new settlement called Coldbrook, later known as Knowlton. Knowlton helped organize the local resistance against the Lower Canada Rebellion and was named lieutenant-colonel in the local militia.
- He was named to the Special Council that then administered the province by colonial administrator Sir John Colborne.
- In 1841, he was named to the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada.
- He signed the 1849 Montreal Annexation Manifesto proposing union with the United States, viewing this as the best way to ensure the future economic development of the region.
- He served as first warden for Brome County and was first president of the county agricultural society.
- He helped establish the Advertiser and Eastern Townships Sentinel with Lucius Seth Huntington in 1856. He died in Knowlton in 1863.
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