British officials, eager to colonize the settlements with a ‘loyal’ population, offered members of the disbanded military regiments generous incentives to settle in the new townships. In 1817, the 100th Regiment of Foot, a British regular army unit, was awaiting repatriation to its native Ireland. Soldiers of the Regiment, which had been renumbered the 99th in 1816, were offered land on which to settle in the newly surveyed Township of Goulbourn. Many accepted the offer, and in 1818 travelled up the Ottawa River with their families, landing at the base of the Chaudiere Falls (Richmond Landing). They were accompanied by fifteen Irish civilian families, who had recently immigrated. From there they made their way along a rough bush trail to establish the new settlement of Richmond, on the banks of the Jock River.