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This anchor, recovered in 1959, belonged to the steamer “Waubuno,” a wooden sidewheeler of some 200 tons which was built at Port Robinson in 1865. She carried freight and passengers in the shipping trade which flourished on Lake Huron during the…

The court house for the Territorial District of Parry Sound, established in 1870, was the first of a series of early northern court houses built under the direction of Ontario’s Department of Public Works and its chief architect, Kivas Tully. Erected…

About 1857 James and William Gibson erected a sawmill at the mouth of the Seguin River. William Beatty, with his sons James and William, acquired the mill in 1863, and the following year were granted a licence of occupation for some 2,000 acres. In…