Bobcaygeon Road

Photo by Alan L Brown - May 8, 2005

Plaque Location

The County of Haliburton
Township of Algonquin Highlands
In Dorset, in a picnic area on the east side of Highway 35 north of Highway 117 just north of the Lake of Bays bridge

Plaque Text

This colonization road was designed to open up the districts lying inland from the settled townships. Construction began in 1856 from Bobcaygeon running northward to the interior of Haliburton. In 1858 Richard Hughes was appointed government land agent at Bobcaygeon and directed the progress of settlement. Free grants of land along its route were made to persons fulfilling the required settlement duties. By 1863 the road, sections of which follow the boundaries between Victoria and Peterborough and Muskoka and Haliburton, was completed to the Oxtongue River in Franklin Township. The southern section, between Bobcaygeon and Minden, is still in use.