The Founding of Omemee

Photo by Alan L Brown - May 18, 2004

Plaque Location

The City of Kawartha Lakes
In Omemee on the NW corner of King Street at the stop light.

Plaque Summary from the Ontario Heritage Trust's website

The community that grew up around William Cottingham's mills on the Pigeon River was first called Williamstown and then Metcalfe. In 1857, the inhabitants finally settled on the name Omemee, a Mississauga word meaning pigeon.

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