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Nine Mile Portage
Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted June, 2004
Photo from Google Street View ©2010 Google - Posted November, 2010
Plaque Location
The County of Simcoe
The City of Barrie
In the southwest corner of the small park
on the south side of Dunlop Street East across from Owen Street
Coordinates: N 44 23.333 W 79 41.279 |
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Plaque Text
Site of eastern terminus of an Indian portage from Kempenfeldt Bay to Willow Creek and thence by the Nottawasaga River to Georgian Bay. In the winter of 1813-14, a force under Lieut-Colonel Robert McDouall followed it on the way to relieve the isolated British garrison at Michilimackinac. That summer it was developed as a rough wagon road and till about 1830 was in frequent use for transport of supplies to Penetanguishene and the western military and fur trading posts.
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