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Historical plaques in Simcoe

58 plaques recorded in Simcoe, each with the wording on the marker and the place it stands.

Andrew Frederick Hunter 1863-1940 · Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted June, 2004

"Jake" Gaudaur 1858-1937 "Jake" Gaudaur 1858-1937 Andrew Frederick Hunter 1863-1940 Black Settlement in Oro Township C. Beck Manufacturing Company Camp Borden Champlain in Ontario, 1615 Chief William Yellowhead Claverleigh David Allanson Jones 1836-1910 Etienne Brule (c. 1592 - c. 1633)Fanny 'Bobbie' Rosenfeld (1903-1969)Franklin Carmichael 1890-1945 Franz Johnston 1888-1949 Gateway to Huronia Glengarry Landing Henry Wolsey Bayfield 1795-1885 Hewitt Bernard 1825-1893 Honourable Ernest Charles Drury James Keating c.1786-1849 Naval and Military Establishments on Lake Huron Nine Mile Portage Nine Mile Portage and Willow Depot Penetanguishene Penetanguishene Road 1814 Rama Indian Reserve Royal Flying Corps Hangars Saint-Louis Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons (1639-1649)Sainte-Marie II Schooner Town Simcoe County Court-House and Gaol Sir Byron Edmund Walker, C.V.O., LL.D., D.C.L. 1848-1924 Sir Frederick Banting 1891-1941 Sir Sam Steele Sir William Mulock 1843-1944 Sir William Osler 1849-1919 St. James-on-the-Lines 1836 St. Thomas' Church 1838 Steamboating on Lake Simcoe Stephen Butler Leacock 1869-1944 The African Methodist Episcopal Church of Oro The Associated Country Women of the World The Ayling and Reid Flight The Coldwater Mill 1833 The Founding of Midland The Founding of Orillia The French Presence in Lafontaine The Honourable William Earl Rowe 1894-1984 The Huron Fish Weirs The Nancy The Northern Railway Company of Canada The Scotch Settlement 1819 The Tigress and Scorpion Theodore Pringle Loblaw 1872-1933 Wasdell Falls Hydro-Electric Development 1914 William Edward Gallie, M.D. 1882-1959 Willow Creek Depot

Recorded in Simcoe, text not held

These markers were catalogued here, but the page carrying their wording has not survived. Each is listed under the name it was cited by; nothing has been rewritten. A link that once pointed at one of them lands on this page.

"Jake" Gaudaur 1858-1937
Stephen Leacock 1869-1944
Surrender of Indian Lands
The Old Brewery Bay

Where Simcoe keeps its own record

The council, library and historical-society pages the directory listed for Simcoe, carried over as they were.

Website History Clearview Collingwood New Tecumseth Oro-Medonte Severn Springwater Tay

Recorded but not yet photographed

Founding of Stayner — The County of Simcoe - Clearview
Founding of Stayner — The County of Simcoe - Clearview