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If you check with entry http://genforum.genealogy.com/dalzell/messages/265.html
you will find that a WILLIAM DALZELL was born about 1858 (according to Ontario Census of 1871) to THOMAS DALZELL (b.c. 1828) and his wife ANN MARIE (or MARY ANN - both appear interchangeably) BENSON (daughter of SAMUEL BENSON, said to be from Portadown, Armagh, Ireland ).
Following this further to http://www.yclc.ca/indexzc.html you will see a picture of THOMAS and MARY ANN, and a picture of her brother, WILLIAM BENSON who m. MARY JANE MAGEE, daughter of JOHN MAGEE and JANE WOOLSEY (b.c. 1780). JANE WOOLSEY was the daughter of LORD WOOLSEY of Portadown, and JOHN MAGEE was apparently a coachman who worked for her father. JOHN's parents were said to be GEORGE MAGEE and ELIZABETH TOTTON (or Totten).
The connection and intermarriage of the MAGEE, BENSON and DALZELL families continued after they came to Canada, first to the BOYD's SETTLEMENT area of Lanark County, Ontario, and later to Listowell in western Ontario, where many are buried in the Derry Add Cemetery (interstingly enough Derryadd was/is a townland just north of Portadown. These folks were likely Free Presbyterians living in the Church of Ireland parish of Drumcree - and this means that they were, in the end, Scottish stock who had arrived there in the hundred or so years before they left for Canada.
I am sure more work could be done to establish these links more firmly.
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