Comber, Ontario

Comber, Ontario is a small town in Essex County, Canada, that is a part of the amalgamated city of Lakeshore. It is located in the extreme southwestern part of the province of Ontario. The town is on Highway 77 just south of Highway 401. It is home to the annual Comber Fair, a county fair that attracts many people from around Essex County and Chatham-Kent.

Comber was founded as a police village in 1890 and dissolved in 1998.

The following was written of Samuel Taylor in a local paper shortly after his death in 1893:
"SAMUEL TAYLOR'S SPIRIT TAKES FLIGHT"
In 1842 he moved his family from Detroit to the homestead, and for six years he sailed the lakes during the season of navigation, bringing home in the fall his summer wages to assist in supporting his family until the farm was ready to cultivate. He was a hard-working man, sober, honest, charitable and saving.
Mr. Taylor took delight in telling the story of the time when he came into the woods to pick out a lot, together with a man by the name of Thomas Thompson. The latter advised the former to take the north corner of the Middle Road and he would take the south, stating that one or the other would live to see a village spring up in the vicinity. Mr. Thompson did not live to see it, having died many years ago; but Mr. Taylor lived to see a part of his farm divided into village lots; hence he was known to all as the father of Comber.