Historic Evolution

Stormy Weather
Archeological sites date back 12000 years.  Early European settlement depended on the Lake for transportation: the rocky shoals off the southern shore resulted in the "graveyard of Lake Ontario": more sunken ships than Fathom Five National Marine Park near Tobermory.

Daniel Reynold’s Loyalist House, c. 1790
Some 500 Loyalist settlers arrived, mainly at Prinyer’s Cove, in 1784 and began to clear the land and grow crops: settlement grew along to Picton and across to Wellington…Reynolds moved his new bride Nance Waite into the house in 1792.

Morocco Leather Tannery
The isolation required all goods be produced locally:
factories produced wagons, ploughs, harness,
stoves, clothing, etc..

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