Braddish Billings (September 23, 1783 – April 8, 1864) was an early settler in the Ottawa area and for whom the community of Billings Bridge was named.
He was born in Ware, Massachusetts in 1783, but moved to the Brockville area with his family when he was 9. He later worked cutting down the white pine along the Ottawa River and transporting the logs down river. He served on the Bytown Mechanics' Institute executive.
In 1812, Billings moved to the Ottawa area and settled on a farm south of the Rideau River in what was then the Township of Gloucester.
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“About the only difference between the poor and the ritch, is this, the poor suffer mizery, while the ritch hav tu enjoy it.”
—Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818–1885)