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Category Archives: Victoria Harbour
Tay Township Introduces “Museum Town” QR-Based Heritage Signage
“Museum Town” is an initiative by the Tay Township Heritage Committee, in partnership with the Huronia Museum, designed to help preserve the identity, history and memory of Tay Township. Left to Right: Lynda Hook, Tay Heritage Committee, Nahanni Born,Huronia … Continue reading
Posted in community, heritage, history, logging and lumbering, Port McNicoll, rural Tay, Victoria Harbour, Waubaushene, Waverley
Tagged Canadian Pacific Railway, cultural heritage, Huronia Museum, local history, lumber. logging, Midland, Port McNicoll, QR Signage, rural tay, Tay Township, Victoria Harbour, Waubaushene, Waverley
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The Victoria Harbor Lumber Company Office and the Royal Victoria Hotel
Figure 1: The VHLC Head Office (Right) and the Royal Victoria Hotel (Left) In 1885, Toronto entrepreneur John Waldie arrived in Victoria Harbour to buy the Kean, Fowlie, and the Power Lumber mills along with hundreds of square miles of … Continue reading
Posted in heritage, history, logging and lumbering, Uncategorized, Victoria Harbour
Tagged local history, lumber. logging, QR Signage, Victoria Harbour
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The Village Library and Company Store
The Victoria Harbor Lumber Company Store and Library The library was said to have been promised to the villagers of Victoria Harbour by Mr. John Waldie – … Continue reading
Victoria Harbor Lumber Company Mills
Figure 1: Victoria Harbour Lumber Mills c1910 In the mid-19th century a burgeoning lumber industry grew in the area, based upon the plentiful white pine in the forests along Georgian Bay. In 1843 … Continue reading
Newtonville
Charles Newton, his young wife and their teenage son came to this area from England in the 1880’s. Soon after his arrival he bought a farm along the nearby Hog River (on the west half of Lot 11, Concession 6, … Continue reading
Posted in heritage, history, rural Tay, Victoria Harbour
Tagged heritage, local history, QR Signage, rural tay, Tay farms, Tay schools, Tay Township, Victoria Harbour
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S.S. # 14 Tay (Rosemount School)
This former one room schoolhouse was constructed in 1926 by the Simcoe County School Board to replace an existing school that had been destroyed by fire. The original entries, one for the girls and one for the boys, have … Continue reading
Posted in heritage, history, rural Tay, Uncategorized, Victoria Harbour, Waubaushene
Tagged cultural heritage, heritage, local history, preservation, QR Signage, rural tay, Tay schools, Tay Township, Waubaushene
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The Victoria Harbour Range Light
In the early 1900’s marine traffic in the Victoria Harbour area had increased to the point where the Federal Department of Marine recognized that there was a need for range lights to guide lumber schooners and steamers to and … Continue reading
151 George Street, Victoria Harbour
(Destroyed by fire in 2020) The land at 151 George Street was purchased in 1908 and 1916 by Edward Byron Brown. Mr. Brown and his wife Mary Jane moved to Tay Township from Florence in Lambton County, Ontario in 1901. … Continue reading
Friends in High Places
In the heyday of Victoria Harbour, Sir Wilfred Laurier was Prime Minister, The Victoria Harbor Lumber Company was the town’s economic engine, and John Waldie was Company President. 1898 was a very good year for Waldie and the Company, … Continue reading
The Robinson Homestead
THE ROBINSON HOMESTEAD 95 YEARS 1865 – 1960 Submitted and Preamble by Glenn Mount, Huntsville I do not know the author of this piece, but it is in papers from my mother, Mrs. Albert (Marjorie) Mount who lived on Conc. … Continue reading
Posted in heritage, history, rural Tay, Uncategorized, Victoria Harbour
Tagged Georgian Bay, Great Lakes, heritage, Huron, local history, Ontario, rural tay, Simcoe County, Tay farms, Victoria Harbour
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