- 2026-10-08The Muskoka Road, constructed to open the district north of Washago for settlement, had reached this point at the head…
- 2026-10-08John Galt, the celebrated Scottish novelist and first superintendent of the Canada Company, founded Guelph on April 23, 1827, naming…
- 2026-10-08The Canadian Land and Emigration Company of London, England, was incorporated in 1861 and purchased for settlement purposes in this…
- 2026-10-08Here, on a secure harbour at the head of Picton Bay, several roads converged during the 1790s, including a portage…
- 2026-10-08A tavern established here about 1849 by Abraham Buck provided the nucleus around which a small settlement began to develop.…
- 2026-10-08In 1854, Archibald Harrison (1818-77), a Toronto-area farmer, acquired land here in Minto Township where the Elora and Saugeen Road…
- 2026-10-08By 1825, James Crooks, a prominent entrepreneur and land speculator of West Flamborough, had acquired over 1,000 acres here at…
- 2026-10-08During the late 1860s a small agricultural settlement, founded largely through the efforts of Captain George Hunt, developed here. In…
- 2026-10-08This region's first inhabitants were aboriginal peoples who were attracted by its abundant natural resources and extensive water routes. Europeans…
- 2026-10-08In 1911 the National Transcontinental Railway, then under construction, reached the present site of Kapuskasing. Three years later during the…