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Historical Markers in Parry Sound District, Ontario

 
Founding of Parry Sound Marker image, Touch for more information
By cmh2315fl via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0), August 10, 2017
Founding of Parry Sound Marker
1 Ontario, Parry Sound District, Parry Sound — Founding of Parry Sound
On Seguin Street at Gibson Street, on the right when traveling east on Seguin Street.
About 1857 James and William Gibson erected a sawmill at the mouth of the Seguin River. William Beatty, with his sons James and William, acquired the mill in 1863, and the following year were granted a licence of occupation for some 800 ha. In . . . Map (db m195985) HM
2 Ontario, Parry Sound District, Parry Sound — Parry Sound District Court House
On James Street at McMurray Street, on the right when traveling north on James Street.
The court house for the Territorial District of Parry Sound, established in 1870, was the first of a series of early northern court houses built under the direction of Ontario's Department of Public Works and its chief architect, Kivas Tully. . . . Map (db m195983) HM
3 Ontario, Parry Sound District, Parry Sound — Trestle at Parry Sound, 1914
On Bay Street, 0.2 kilometers north of Tribute Road, on the right when traveling north.
Tom Thomson paddled into the mouth of the Seguin River one evening in mid-July, 1914. He had come from Go Home Bay, stopping to stay in the South Channel for a few days. Seeing the new CPR trestle, the longest bridge east of the Rockies, and the . . . Map (db m195979) HM
 
 
  
  
 
 
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