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BARRIE lS GATEWAY T0 GREAT ONTARIO VACATIONLAND Simcoe County Unique Is Fertile And Barren Barrlel growth from an lrldllln settlement to the County Town In 1341 to one 01 Ontarios newest clilel in 1959 is cnlorlullyand uccllh utely pictured in The story of Slincoa County wrltten by former Premier lion Ernest Drury Following are some descriptive plus ages from hla work SIMCOE COUNTY lies aerosa the shortest load route between the Lower and Upper Great Lakes Southward are the most den 5er populated sections of North America Northward and westward by water roll and road lie the great and rapidly developing re gions of Northern Ontario and Vestem Canada Commerce and transportation Ind of late years the tourist traflie naturally converge on Simcae County Gealogically the region in un lque Except in the far northeast of Simcoe where the Severn drops in its granite gorge down from Lake Simcoe to Georgian Bay and on its western bound ary where the limestone escarp ment of the Blue Mountains oer caaionaily emerges there are no rock exposures in between deeppiled over the underlying rock the soil is glacial drill The ancient glacier retreating before the warmth of the postglaci age made in Simcoe Conn ne of the last stands and héha editi self fantastically Sand gravel loam clay hills and valleys alluvial lots and sandy plains lie scattered over the area higgledyplggledy SOIL VARIETY Few parts of Canada can show greater variety of soil and contour There are some of the most fertile farmlands in Ontarioand some at the barrenest areas There are hill top views of amazing beauty There are woodlands green and spreading for the varied nature of the soil did not tempt over clearing and the sandbarrens were challenge to reforestat ion VAnd around all from Brad lord on the south to Ceiling wood in the northwest lies water Cooks Bay Kempea felt Bay Lake Simcoe Lake Couchiching the Severn Match edash BayNottawasaga Bay and the far reaches at the mighty Georgian Bay In the lait years of the sixi teenth and the first of the seventeenth century the white man English Dutch French invaded North America Two things brought him land for settlement and proiits from the fur trade of these twin hoplt es the latter was the greater attraction Europe provided an insatiable market for furs Nor th America was an apparently unlimited supply The native Indians could gel lhh furs The white men tred ed them with immense result ant profit For full half can my the northeastern part at Simcoe County was the skate gic centre of this trade HURONS HOME This area north of Lake Stirr coe and east of the Nottawns aga River was the homeland of an Indian nation the Human Huron of course was nick name probably given them by some amurt alec young French man who thought because oi the way they dressed their hair in single high ridge they looked like Wild boars Euro in French meant boarhead The Indians called themselves WendaLs and their homeland Weadake the Island or land apart Their territory except for short twomile isthmus between the head of Kempentelt Bay and Barriea Little Lake was completely rur rounded by water Where they came from why they came we do not know indeed archaeologists have found clay pot in North Simcoe which prove that there was civiliza tlon in this area 2500 year or more before the birth of Christ We do know however that the Huron lndieas of the alx teenth century were closely re lated to the Iroquois their tra ditional enemies but unlike the lroquois who made business of war the Huiens were peace fui people and lived in peace with all their neighboring trib Like all the North American lndians they had no metal tools or utensils They were still in the stone age Except for the dog the radians had no domes llc animals All the animals capable of domesticationfrom the elephant lo the goatbe longed to the Old World in spite at these handicaps the liurons had managed to make the difficult transltionl lmrn nomad hunters to settl ed agriculturalists Huron agriculture uas extenl sire and successlul Corn was their main crop and the main stay of their diet and they grew fields of it They had managed no mean accomplishment to develop variety of corn that uould ripen reliably this far north They also grew beans and squash sunflowers or oil and Indian hemp for fibre from which they made iishncLs With their stone axes and fire they felled the loresl fret5 Alone in ite class Jr Editions to oompro 01855 years this outstanding automobile has led the built vilingu of tnlerahly ucalh erprooi communal houses shap ed like quonse huts and cov ered with bark and unified their villages with high post palisades Even before the French came the limits had developed an extensive and basic trade wide the Algonqulns exchanging com for furs hides and meat more plentiful in the thinly populated muntry to the north The Hur on More the trading nation of Central America Evidence un covered by archaeologists indic nlrs that their barter dealing lor conch shells and metal or naments extended as far south as the Gulf ol Mexico For this trade the liurons had brought the birch hark canoe to its highest point Vhats Ohrysletr mlse your investment perfection Some of the trad Emacs were thirty eel laag ton cargo besides their crews THE BARR EXAMINER TUESDAY FEB capable of transporting probably at that time not only lyet light enough to be carried mm densely plum easily over long and difficult portages When the French extended to this land the European fur trade thelimos were uic to see its advantages They were not long in making their appearance at Three Rivers and Quebec with their loads furs mostly obtained by trade and ready to be exchanged for steel axes and tools and copper cooking pots Samuel dc Champlain the young French Governor oi New France met them there and heard of their homeland which of with its 30009 inhabitants was nor with no for over 37 field in iii in North America but geograph ically strategically import ant to trade in the summer of 1615 fol toning the trails pioneered five years earlier by hs layearold French emissary Etienne Brute Champlain came to Huronla with sixteen French soldiers After twoweek tour of the lndian villages he and his ln iantrymen set out on Septemb er in company with several hundred liuron warriorsfor an attack on the lroquois our of Onondaga to Ihe south of Lake Ontario Unlike his earlier ex pedition in 1609 this time Chem Dodge newness goes than its great new looks 21 19$ plain met disastrous defeat and hemmed cresuallen to tluronla where he took up quarters at lhe llumn village of Cahiague pmbably near the site of War minster on Highway 11 lull west of Oriilia During that winter he also visited the Tel acco nation in the Blue hiaunt alas near Collingwood short stays in eight dillerent villages What he saw in tiuronla must have impressed him greatly as from that time on until 1649 lhe liuruns and their homeland became the pivotal point of French policy in the New World mm to page 10C please 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