Port Carling 1869
Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted May, 2005
Photo from Google Street View ©2010 Google - Posted December, 2010
Plaque Location
The District of Muskoka
The Township of Muskoka Lakes
In Port Carling, beside the locks
on the north side of Road 118
Coordinates: N 45 07.210 W 79 34.611 |
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Plaque Text
The first white settlers on the site of this town, then known as Indian Village, arrived about 1865. In 1869 it was named after the Honourable John Carling, Ontario's first Minister of Public Works and Agriculture. Water transportation, so vital to the early farmers and lumbermen, was greatly aided by the construction of these locks, 1869-71, by the provincial government. The village was incorporated in 1896.
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Sir John Carling 1828-1911
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> Posted December 13, 2009
It's worthy to note that this plaque is credited as being the first provincial historical plaque, dating from the late 1950s. -Wayne
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