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 | 1793 - Birth: Sir Francis Bond Head, Lt-Gov of Upper Canada 1836-8, at
Higham, England; Bond Head named for him |
| 1800 - Act erecting County of Simcoe proclaimed |
| 1830 - First post office in Simcoe County opened at Penetanguishene |
| 1850 - Townships of Adjala, Essa, Innisfil, Medonte, Mono, South Orillia,
St Vincent, Tecumseth, Vespra and West Gwillimbury incorporated |
| 1852 - Five townships detached from Simcoe County: Collingwood, St
Vincent, Euphrasia, Artemesia, and Osprey and three townships added:
Balaclava, Robinson and Muskoka |
| 1854 - Incorporation of Town of Barrie, with village powers, in effect
1855 - First train reached Collingwood from Toronto on Ontario, Simcoe and
Huron Rail Road |
| 1858 - Collingwood incorporated as a town and Bradford as a village |
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| 1820 - Innisfil Township surveyed by Richard Birdsall to 15 March 1820 |
| 1837- Birth Robert Gordon McCraw, tailor and Craigvale postmaster 1868
to 1908, at Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 1850 - Simcoe County passed By-law No 1, "Appointing an enumerator
to take the census for the County" |
| 1864 - Post office opened at Avening; W.H. Thornbury, postmaster |
| 1883 -
Act empowered Town of Barrie to close up part of Dunlop Street for a new
post office |
| 1889 - First issue of Orillia Daily Times |
| 1899 - Death Rev Thomas Williams, pioneer Methodist minister, at Orillia;
his reminiscences, "Memories of a Pioneer," appeared in the Orillia
Packet from 28 November 1890 |
| 1917 - Northern Advance reported Camp Borden to house 188 aircraft by 15
April 1917 |
| 1919 - Simcoe County passed By-law No 1303 appointing F. Spearing, MD as
Medical Superintendent of the House of Refuge, Beeton, at $200 per annum;
Spearing succeeded the late Dr. R.S. Brewster |
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| 1815 - Gang of Canadian axemen arrived at Penetanguishene |
| 1841 - Charles Rankin map of Home and Simcoe districts published |
| 1855 - Craigvale Loyal Orange Lodge No 605 first incorporated |
| 1917 - New Orillia Opera House, in town hall building, formally opened
with performance of "Alladin and his Wonderful Lamp" |
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| 1791 - Birth: William Fletcher, founder of Alliston, at Alliston,
Yorkshire, England |
| 1871 - Toronto, Simcoe and Muskoka Junction Railway leased to Northern
Railway |
| 1872 - Toronto, Simcoe and Muskoka Junction Railway opened for traffic
from Barrie to Orillia |
| 1881 - Thomas Drury named postmaster at Crown Hill to 7 September 1895 |
| 1882 - Consolidation agreement combining six railways into the Midland
Railway of Canada went into effect. |
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| 1801 - Birth: George Ball, Kempenfeldt pioneer from 1833-4, at County
Fermanagh, Ireland |
| 1811 - Robert Barrie, RN entered Golfe de Sagona, Corsica and sank two
warships and an armed merchantman; Barrie named for him |
| 1814 - Birth: Mrs Matthew Dowling, Nottawasaga pioneer, credited with
naming the Mad River in 1835 after nearly drowning in "that mad
river" |
| 1859 - Board of Works transferred Narrows Bridge to Simcoe and Ontario
counties |
| 1881 - First electric light lit at Hermon Henry Cook sawmill, Midland;
one of the earliest in Ontario |
| 1888 - Charles Alfred Drury, MPP for Simcoe East, appointed the first
Ontario minister of agriculture; served to 30 September 1890 |
| 1893 - Death: Capt John Gidley, Penetanguishene boat builder and
mariner; Gidley pioneered the development of Canadian watercraft |
| 1900 - Sea serpent, 8- to 10-feet (2.4 to 3 m) long, fan-tailed with a
head like a horse, seen off the wharf at the foot of Mulcaster Street,
Barrie |
| 1907 - Local temperance option by-law put into effect in Innisfil
Township; by-law passed 1906 |
| 1912 - Eastern terminus of Great Lakes steamship service transferred to
Port McNicoll from Owen Sound |
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| 1833 - Barrie town lots sold by auction at York (Toronto) |
| 1842 - Joseph-Remi Vallieres de Saint-Real appointed first Canadian-born
chief justice; son of Mrs Asher Mundy who kept a canteen at Fort Nottawasaga |
| 1866 - Simcoe County council provided for families of Fenian
volunteers |
| 1885 - Cornerstone laid at Methodist church at Dalston |
| 1896 - Death: Maj Henry Needham Scrope Shrapnel, artist, musician and
composer, at Orillia, aged 84; son of Lt.Gen Henry Shrapnel (1761-1842), who
invented the shrapnel shell in 1784 as a British artillery lieutenant |
| 1903 - Death: Gloria Whalan, aged 13, found murdered a half-mile (.8 km)
south of Collingwood; the case was never solved |
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| 1634 -Jesuit Fathers Jean de Brebeuf and Antoine Daniel left
Trois-Rivieres for Huronia |
| 1867 - Canada West (Ontario), Canada East (Quebec), Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick confederated to become the Dominion of Canada |
| 1867 - Hewitt Bernard, former resident of Barrie, became the first
Canadian deputy minister of justice to 1876 |
| 1867 - George Hughes Hale, printer and one of the driving forces behind
the Orillia Expositor, arrived at Orillia |
| 1872 - Birth: Theodore Pringle Loblaw, founder of Loblaw Groceterias, at
Elm Grove, Essa Township |
| 1873 - 5,000 on hand at Barrie to see Mingonette, a three-year-old bay
filly, win the only Queen's Plate ever run in Simcoe County |
| 1879 - First train arrived at Midland, future "Chicago of the
North" |
| 1879 - Northern Railway and Hamilton and North-Western amalgamated |
| 1888
- Muskoka municipalities detached from Simcoe County |
| 1892 - Death: Thomas Crosbie, Tosorontio pioneer from 1839, aged
80 |
| 1897 - Joseph A. Luck, appointed last Crown Hill postmaster, serving to
1909 |
| 1912 - Apto post office closed; Henry O'Neill last postmaster |
| 1915 - R.L. Barwick, of Barrie, won the Dominion junior tennis
championship |
| 1916 - Troops began moving into Camp Borden |
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| 1615 - Samuel de Champlain arrived at Huron village of Otouacha |
| 1860 - Rugby post office established; Walter Hunter, first postmaster |
| 1894 - Josephine post office closed; opened 1884: Joseph Budd,
lumberman, first and last postmaster; Josephine, Vespra Township named for
his daughter |
| 1916 - First intimation that 76th Battalion was in action |
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| 1615 - Samuel de Champlain with 14 French and 500 Hurons left Cahiague
for Iroquois country |
| 1826 - Honore Bailly patented 500 acres in vicinity of Orillia |
| 1877 - Crown Hill post office established at Drury grist mill |
| 1881 - First rain fell ending 25 days of fiery drought |
| 1912 - SS No 17 (school) opened at Midhurst to March 1962 |
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| 1787 - Birth: Joseph-Remi Vallieres de Saint-Real, first Canadian-born
chief justice and son of Mrs Asher Mundy who kept a canteen at Fort
Nottawasaga |
| 1896 - Evangeline Booth laid cornerstone of Salvation Army building,
Collier Street, Barrie |
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| 1831 - Edward O'Brien, Charles Stanley Monck, Thomas Gummersall
Anderson, William Betty McVity and John E. White commissioned Justices of
the Peace (JPs) for the District of Simcoe |
| 1867 - Simcoe County council granted $333.34 for flax mill at
Collingwood |
| 1871 - Thomas Gladstane, first postmaster 1872-89, arrived at Midland |
| 1872 - Midland post office opened |
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| 1795 - Lt-Gov John Graves Simcoe requested an extended leave on account
of ill-health |
| 1875 - Earliest closing of Kempenfelt Bay by ice recorded by Judge John
A. Ardagh of Barrie |
| 1906 - Canadian Pacific Railway line opened for passengers to Midhurst |
| 1907 - Opening services for renovated Collier Methodist church held at
Barrie |
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