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Penetanguishene, an Ojibwe village located at the southern tip of the bay near present-day Midland, was developed as a naval base in 1793 by John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada.
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Penetanguishene and village
After passing through the village of Elmvale, the highway abruptly curved to the east, ending at Highway 93 south of Midland and Penetanguishene.
Penetanguishene and located
Awenda Provincial Park is a provincial park in western Ontario located on the northern tip of the Penetanguishene Peninsula on Georgian Bay.
Woodcock was apprehended for the murders in 1957, found not guilty by reason of insanity, and placed in Oak Ridge, an Ontario psychiatric facility located in Penetanguishene.
Penetanguishene and at
James LaBrie was born in Penetanguishene, Ontario, Canada and started singing and playing drums at age 5.
The towns of Midland, Penetanguishene, Port Severn and Honey Harbour are at the south-eastern end of the bay, and are popular sites for summer cottages, as are the many bays and islands on the eastern coast.
In 1817, naval units from Michilimackinac and Schooner Town ( near modern-day Wasaga Beach ) were consolidated at Penetanguishene.
To provide supplies to the excellent habour at Penetanguishene a road of about 35 km was surveyed ca 1813 between the two bodies of water.
Settlers would provide support for the fort at Penetanguishene by providing food and other local supplies, and, if the war with the U. S. again broke out, the trained militiamen could be armed to defend the region.
The blocks of land on the Penetanguishene Road, were at the time being granted to settlers of European origin.
Prior to the provincial highway downloadings of 1997, Highway 11 left its expressway route through Oro-Medonte at Crown Hill, transferring onto Penetanguishene Road for the remainder of its southerly route into Barrie and Toronto.
Highway 11 now continues past the Penetanguishene Road interchange along the former route of Highway 400A, ending at Highway 400 1. 1 kilometres further southwest.
It is thought that Walter was lured to the West, following a brief visit by Henry, to the family home at Penetanguishene, Ontario.
Another freeway section does exist in Barrie with the freeway segment from the southern terminus ending at Penetanguishene Road ( Simcoe Road 93 ).
In 1798, the British government purchased the land in the area and soon after established a naval base at Penetanguishene.
A large anchor, over fifteen feet ( roughly 4. 6 m ) long and weighing approximately 4000 lbs ( about 1 816 kg ), for the frigate under construction at Penetanguishene was shipped from England and had made it as far as Holland Landing when the war ended.
* HM Schooner Bee was a 79-foot wooden supply schooner of 30. 5 tonnes displacement, stationed at the Penetanguishene Naval Establishment from 1817 to 1831.
CFRH-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 88. 1 FM in Penetanguishene, Ontario.
John Moberly ( 1789 – 1848 ), British naval officer at Penetanguishene, Ontario
Penetanguishene and near
The historic naval and military base ( Discovery Harbour ) near Penetanguishene is open to visitors.
Penetanguishene and Midland
The census agglomeration area of Midland includes Tay Township and the Town of Penetanguishene.
The major municipalities include Midland, Orillia, Penetanguishene, Tay, Tiny, Christian Island, Severn, Ramara, Oro-Medonte and Mnjikaning First Nation The area is 2, 381 km < sup > 2 </ sup >.
Until the middle of the 17th century, the Wendake ancestors occupied a vast territory straddling part of what is now the United States ( from Detroit as far south as Oklahoma ), south-eastern Ontario ( Penetanguishene and Midland ) and Quebec.
Christian Island is a large island in Georgian Bay close to the communities of Penetanguishene and Midland, Ontario.
It was used in the past for ships travelling from Collingwood to Penetanguishene, Midland, and Parry Sound.
The " East Riding of the county of Simcoe " initially consisted of the townships of Tay, Medonte, Oro, Orillia, Matchedash, Muskoka, Wood, Medora, Monck and Tiny, the villages of Gravenhurst and Midland, and the towns of Orillia and Penetanguishene.
In 1903, it was redefined to consist of the townships of Matchedash, Medonte, Orillia North, Orillia South, Tay and Tiny, and the towns of Midland, Orillia and Penetanguishene.
He remained most of the time in an Ontario-based institution until December 2001, when he was granted supervised access to the towns of Penetanguishene, Port McNicoll and Midland in Ontario.
Penetanguishene and was
The young French translator, Étienne Brûlé, was the first European to set foot in the Penetanguishene area, some time between 1610 and 1614.
Beginning in 1814, the British-Canadians built the Penetanguishene Road to provide the area a land route to Barrie and Toronto, as it was previously accessible only by water transport along the rivers or across Georgian Bay.
Arenburg was released from a mental hospital in Penetanguishene in 2006, then imprisoned for two years for assaulting a U. S. border guard in 2008.
In 1875 the town was approached by the North Simcoe Railway to run a line from Penetanguishene through Alliston to join the Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway.
By linking together several previously built roads such as Yonge Street, Penetanguishene Road, Middle Crossroad and the Muskoka Road, all early colonization roads in this region, a continuous route was created between Toronto and North Bay ; however, the new department's jurisdiction did not extend north of the Severn River.
It was intended that Yonge Street, in combination with the similar Penetanguishene Road further north, would provide access to the upper Great Lakes from the city of York.
The closest it came was during the War of 1812, when the British decided to retake the entire lake system through the construction of a number of first-rate ships in Kingston and Penetanguishene.
Penetanguishene and by
There is one Protestant separate school jurisdiction in Ontario, the Burkevale Protestant Separate School, operated by the Penetanguishene Protestant Separate School Board.
Penetanguishene and Simcoe
* Simcoe County: Essa, Penetanguishene, Tiny
Penetanguishene, sometimes shortened to Penetang, is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.
Penetanguishene has four different school boards within its limits — the publicly founded English board ( Simcoe County District School Board ), which runs the Penetanguishene Secondary School and James Keating Elementary School ; the Public French School Board, the CSDCSO and the English Catholic School Board.
The Penetanguishene Road built between 1814 – 1815, from Kempenfelt Bay, provided an alternate route to Georgian Bay, however, early settlers also used this route to get to the frontier of Simcoe County, bypassing the areas of West Gwillimbury and Essa townships.
It initially consisted of the City of Owen Sound, the Village of Chatsworth and the Townships of Collingwood, Euphrasia, Holland, Osprey, St. Vincent and Sydenham in the County of Grey ; and Christian Islands Indian Reserve No. 30 and the Townships of Flos, Nottawasaga, Sunnidale and Tiny ( excepting the Town of Penetanguishene ) in the County of Simcoe.
Penetanguishene and Upper
In 1828, the main British military establishment on the Upper Lakes moved from Drummond Island to Penetanguishene.
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