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NEW SCHOOL FOR GROWING COMMUNITY To cope with its ownpopu llation explosion the city of loans has had to build new smcos COUNTY ltContinued from page loci route between the Upper and lower Lakes In 1797 Governor Slmcoe open ed Yonge Street as far north as Holland Landing Th the route took two courses One lay across Lake Simcoe and through the Narrows to where Orillla now stands and thence by an old Huron trail then still discernible through the forests which later became the Cold watcr Road now Highway No 12 to the waters of Georgian Bay The other proceeded up Cooks Bay round Big Bay Point to the heati oi Kempenlclt Bay thence across the nine mile portage to Willow Creek and to down the Nottnwasaga River to Georgian Bay The second route was the most used sin ce it involved the shortest por tage Then came the war of 1912 15 Three American warships chased the British sloop Nancy into the mouth of the Nottawn saga hiver and no disgrace in that The Nancy was towed by her crew up theriver to where the wreck now lies at Nancy Island and there quite unable to fight back was sunk at leisure by dropping fire acr oss the sandspit from the Am erican ships In the open bay once mot In nld man who February 1615 we find schooh at an unprecedented rate One suds sdtool is remembered seeing the pine trees opposite where the Nancy lies with ther tops broken off by the cannon balls Some say her crew set fire to the Nancy rather than have her captured Another and more likely account is that she was fired by red hot cannon balls from the Am erican ships HARBOR UNSAFE It was apparent that at least in wartime the mouth of the Nottawasaga was not safe harbor Pcnetanguishene harbor larther to the north was safe nndeasily fortified And soélln George Head journeying up new cat road from Kemponfelt two miles east of the head of Kempenlelt Bay to Penetangui shene where he found engineers taking soundings through the ice and company of English shipwrights ready to build ships In his diary Sir George does not tell us what his mission was all very hushhush Pro hably he brought back word that peace was in the making He stayed ten days and went back taking the shipwrighls with him By tall the Penetangutshene Road had been surveyed and the first townsite laid out the Town of Kempenfolt at the southern terminus of the road two miles east of the head oi lLd tamer ahownintinabovephoto zraah the Bay In 1819 aka the iir st settlers cams 22 families between Kempentelt and Craigh urst mostly English sums of them English farmers who brought with them much need ed agricultural skills In the same year the Scotch line west of Eradford was set tied by Scottish families These men women and children str angely came from the west from tho Selkirk settlement amund Winnipeg where life had been made unendurable by the violence of the great fur comp antes SURVEY COUNTY In the next two decades most of the County was surveyed and the townships laid out and named though not incorporated Incorporation came in the Ior ties The Townships of West Gwil limbury and Innisiil were sur veyed and the Penetanguishcnc Road ran through them from Bradford to point between Minets Point and Toliendai on Kcmpenfelt Bay opposite the town of Kompenfelt Hero anoth er townsito was laid out the city of Leith private promotion Its description reg istered in the Registry Office in Barrie read like promotion literature as indeed it was Five or six years later how ever the government built the road around the head of Items penfelt Bay and laid out the townsite of Barrie Barrio took 05f Modem roots and new while Kanpur felt withered away and Leith died aboming Between the midtwenties and IP50 settlers came thick and last to Stmcoe County and from many sources Quite naturally many of these settled in groups according to their origins Scots in On and Nottawasaga French in Hny North lrisb in Essa and West Gwillimbury South Irish in Adjaia German Menonites in the northern parts at Nottawasaga and Sunnid In Oro there was settlement of Negroes who had fled from slavery in The Land of Liber ty to freedom in Canada liiany settlers came from Eng land but for some reason these did not settle in groups but were scattered everywhere The racial origins of the peopla of Slmooo are as varied as its glacial coil In the same period other sig nllicant changes were taking place Churches and schools were built the latter at first supported entirely by voluntary contributions AGrarnmsr School was started in Barrie the first north of Tomato FAILED NAMED in ms the District of Sim coo was separated from the Home District and given its own Council and Wsrden its own County Town Barrie and Its own District Court ludv go and Magistrates Most of the townships were organised with their own coon oils and reeves The forms were still largely sellmntalucd and were prospermg But here and there there were the begin nings of urban centres with their trades and crafts Tomato was the market for such pro ducts as were sold and the of such goods as were brought in it was readied only by horsedrawn ve hicles mostly in winter when the roads were good In 1354 the Northern Railway one of the first railways in Canada was opened from Tor onto to Allandole and the year following it went on to Ceiling wood It did not however come immediately to Barrie For some reason the town refused to help with bonus and Cumberland the promoter whose bust now stands in the stationyard at Allondale stopped short at that point threatening to make the grass grow in the streets of Barrio This threat did not materialize Barrie still thrlv and few years later the Rail way in its own interest was compelled to extend its line round the end of the Bay Cum berlan however unwittingly got his revenge The railway with the towns consent was built close to the waters edge thereby shutting all access to one of the finest sand beaches in all Ontario There it remains to this day for no one seems to have the gumption to move it back few rods which Could easily be done RAILWAY MAGIC The earning of the railway wrought magic At long last there was market for timlr er and wood and better mar ket for grain The village of Bradford which before the railway had been no more than is stopping point on the road in Tomato bemrne an important shipping point He tween Bradford and Aliandale there were several smaller ship ping points Bella Ewart Le iroy Craigvale Barrie increased its trade with the surrounding good farming country and many Industry of PEOPLE PRODUCT FULL LINE OF MOTOR VOES AND mDUSTRIAL THE EARRE nunsen WAY FEB 21 138 lit small local industries sprang up and throre Coilingwood commenced its long career as lake port and shipbuilding centre Stayoer was founded at first under the name of Nottawssaga Station The vil lage of Angus sprang up and or morv than ten years enjoys ed spectacular boom the shipping point for the lumber cut from the adjacent pins plains now Camp Borden and for farm products from farther south than 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