Perth Military Settlement 1816
The present townships of Bathurst, Beckwith and Drummond were settled under the jurisdiction of the Quarter Master General's Department. Scottish emigrants, quartered in barracks at...
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Peterborough Petroglyphs
Situated on an outcrop of white marble on the Canadian Shield, the Peterborough Petroglyphs site is one of the largest know concentrations of prehistoric rock carvings in Canada. Several hundred...
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The Portage Road
This road follows the general route of the Indian portage from Lake Simcoe to Balsam Lake. The portage was first mapped by the Honourable John Collins, Deputy Surveyor General of Canada, when he...
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Parkwood
A rare surviving example of the grand estates of the inter-war years, Parkwood consists of a richly decorated house set in 5 ha of grounds. The house, originally constructed in 1916-1917 to the...
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Port Stanley
Kettle Creek was called by the Iroquois the "Kanagio", by the Ojibwas the "Akiksibi", by the French the "Riviére Tonti". Among early visitors were: Louis Jolliet, September, 1669; Dollier...
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Porcupine Mining Area
From the 1880s onwards, as railways opened up northern Ontario, prospecting activity in this region intensified. The Porcupine gold rush began in 1909 following three significant...
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The Precambrian Shield
The surrounding rock formation is among the oldest of the Earth's crust. Formed between one and two billion years ago, it is part of the Precambrian Shield, which occupies two-thirds of the...
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Puce River Black Community
While the first Blacks arrived in the Puce River area during the 1830s, the community owed its existence largely to the Refugee Home Society. This abolitionist organization led by Henry and Mary...
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The Port Arthur, Duluth and Western Railway Company
The railway which once ran nearby was originally incorporated in 1883 as the Thunder Bay Colonization Railway Company. Promoted during the Thunder Bay silver mining boom of the 1880's to serve the...
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The P.L. Robertson Manufacturing Company
The first firm in the world to produce socket-head screws, the P.L. Robertson Manufacturing Company was formed in Hamilton in 1907 and relocated here the following year. It was established by...
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Pro Patria 1812-1814
In memory of the officers and seamen of the Royal Navy and Provincial Marine, and of the officers and soldiers of the Royal Marines, Royal Newfoundland, King's (8th) and 100th Regiments, who...
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The Peterborough Lift Lock
Opened in 1904, with a lift of 19.8 meters, this is the highest hydraulic lift lock in the world and the first of two built in North America, both on the Trent-Severn Waterway. It operates on...
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The Provincial Freeman
First published in 1853 in Windsor and later in Toronto and Chatham, the Provincial Freeman catered to abolitionists in British North America and the Northern United States. Its chief editor was...
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Purdy's Mills
The saw and grist mills built in 1828-30 by William Purdy and his two sons on the nearby Scugog River, formed the nucleus of the Town of Lindsay which was incorporated in 1857. Purdy...
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Pauline McGibbon 1910-2001
The first woman to hold a vice-regal office in Canada, Pauline Emily Mills, was born in Sarnia, Ontario in 1910. After local schooling and a degree at Victoria College, University of Toronto, she...
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Point Clark Lighthouse
Built in 1859 by the Department of Public Works, this handsome 26 m structure is one of six "Imperial towers" on these shores. The circular limestone tower has walls 150 cm thick at the base,...
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Passenger and Packet Freighters on the Upper Great Lakes
Until the mid-20th century, passenger and packet freighters were the most efficient means for transporting goods and people to and from isolated communities of the Upper Great Lakes. Essential...
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Point Frederick Buildings
This peninsula, headquarters of the Provincial Marine (c.1790-1813), and of the Royal Navy (1813-1853), was the major British naval base on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812. Buildings surviving...
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Philip Dansken Ross 1858-1949
Born in Montreal, Ross graduated in 1878 from McGill University and served on newspapers in Montreal and Toronto before becoming, in 1886, managing director and part-owner of the OTTAWA JOURNAL....
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Point Frederick
A strategic location for the defence of the Loyalist settlement at Cataraqui (Kingston), this point was reserved in 1788 and named after Sir Frederick Haldimand, Governor of Quebec (1778-86). In...
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