My Family History at a Glance: A Focus on the Middlebrooks

          My name is Jennifer Whipp and I am a seventh generation Muskokan. I am 20 years old and am currently attending Trent University to get my degree in Environmental Studies. A huge reason for my interest in the environmental field is my deep personal and historical connection to the land I live on. While I have some ancestors that are from various other areas, it seems that in my family, the Middlebrooks line has given us our family traditions and strongest roots. As far back as we can trace, that side of my family has lived in Muskoka on the SAME plot of land for at least 7 or 8 generations. For the purposes of this blog, I intend to focus on the Muskoka region, and the French River, Georgian Bay area. They are my focus because they are the only two areas that the Middlebrooks family line has inhabited over the last 150 years, areas that today, are a big part of my life.