The name Penetanguishene is believed to come from either the Wyandot language or from the Abenaki language via the Ojibwa language, meaning " land of the white rolling sands ".

Built in 1836, St. James on the Lines is an historic Anglican garrison church in Penetanguishene.

The historic naval and military base ( Discovery Harbour ) near Penetanguishene is open to visitors.

Penetanguishene, along with Parry Sound, is now one of the departure points for Georgian Bay's 30, 000 Islands boat tours.

Penetanguishene is home to the Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene, a maximum security mental health facility.

There is one Protestant separate school jurisdiction in Ontario, the Burkevale Protestant Separate School, operated by the Penetanguishene Protestant Separate School Board.

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 >.

It is thought that Walter was lured to the West, following a brief visit by Henry, to the family home at Penetanguishene, Ontario.

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.

North of there it is generally parallel to the Penetanguishene Road and Highway 400.

CFRH-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 88. 1 FM in Penetanguishene, Ontario.

Awenda Provincial Park is a provincial park in western Ontario located on the northern tip of the Penetanguishene Peninsula on Georgian Bay.

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.

* Simcoe County: Essa, Penetanguishene, Tiny

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.

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.

Another freeway section does exist in Barrie with the freeway segment from the southern terminus ending at Penetanguishene Road ( Simcoe Road 93 ).

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.

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.

James LaBrie was born in Penetanguishene, Ontario, Canada and started singing and playing drums at age 5.

In 1834 Walter moved with his family to Penetanguishene, Ontario, where his father, Capt.

* Penetanguishene Naval Yard, Penetanguishene, Ontario operated from 1813 to 1834

An ordained Presbyterian Minister ( he served 1966-68 in Penetanguishene, Ontario ), an officer in the Canadian Forces, he then served as an executive with Honeywell Ltd. before entering political life, and later became a chair of the York Technology Association.

St James On the Lines, the historic Anglican Garrison Church in Penetanguishene, Ontario built in 1836.

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.

John Moberly ( 1789 – 1848 ), British naval officer at Penetanguishene, Ontario

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.

Sturgeon Falls, Penetanguishene and Windsor each had its own school crisis.

Other communities with notable francophone populations are Lakeshore, Windsor, Penetanguishene and Welland.

( The other two are Penetanguishene and Lakeshore.

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.

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.

In 1817, naval units from Michilimackinac and Schooner Town ( near modern-day Wasaga Beach ) were consolidated at Penetanguishene.

Some other small craft were headquartered in Penetanguishene for the exploration and mapping of the Great Lakes ' coastline.

In 1828, the main British military establishment on the Upper Lakes moved from Drummond Island to Penetanguishene.

Families of Métis fur traders who had moved with the British from Michilimackinac to Drummond Island after the War of 1812, moved again to Penetanguishene.

Penetanguishene became the local market and meeting place for these individuals.

Penetang-Midland Coach Lines ( PMCL ) operates from Penetanguishene.

In the summer months, the area's population grows to over 100, 000 with seasonal visitors to more than 8, 000 cottages, resort hotels, provincial and national parks in the surrounding municipalities of Penetanguishene, Tiny and Tay.

The census agglomeration area of Midland includes Tay Township and the Town of Penetanguishene.