- 2026-10-08In 1801, Joseph Hill, attracted by the water-power potential of the Holland River, built a grist-mill on the site of…
- 2026-10-08In the late 1860s the need to develop a local agricultural base to serve a growing population of the Thunder…
- 2026-10-08About 1920, Maurice Cottingham settled here on the Pigeon River in Emily Township. By 1835, his family had acquired much…
- 2026-10-08In 1820 the government surveyed Orillia Township and a decade later located Chief William Yellowhead's Ojibwa band on lands near…
- 2026-10-08A small community developed here following the erection of mills on the Credit River about 1828-29. These were later rebuilt…
- 2026-10-08In 1833, the families of James Willis and William McConnell became the earliest settlers in this area. Within a year,…
- 2026-10-08In 1858, Timothy Resseguie laid out the first village lots, and the opening of a railway station here in 1859…
- 2026-10-08In 1816, 92,000 acres of land that had originally been granted to the Iroquois Six Nations was purchased by the…
- 2026-10-08After British officials acquired a block of land from the Mississaugas in 1818, the initial survey of Esquesing Township was…
- 2026-10-08In 1826, the Canada Company, a newly chartered colonization firm, acquired a large block of land known as the Huron…