Difficulties in building the first lighthouses ...Lynx Images, Georgian Bay, Manitoulin Island and the North Channel, Lighthouses, Shipwrecks, Great Lakes, Georgian Bay, Ghosts of the Bay, Enchanted Summers, North Channel & St. Mary's River, Muskoka, Ontario, Ghost Towns, Toronto, Mount Pleasant Cemetery
A. Georgian Bay
B. Manitoulin Island (largest freshwater island in the world)
C. North Channel
D. Sault Ste. Marie
E. Collingwood
F. Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Railway
Detail showing the 1850s course of trade reveals how the "northern route" to the Georgian Bay railheads was
faster than shipping east via southern Lake Huron.
The Great Lakes were the lifeblood of nineteenth-century Canada. When in 1855, a larger shipping canal opened up in Sault Ste. Marie, and the first railway hit the shore of southern Georgian Bay at Collingwood, the town of Collingwood exploded into an important transhipment centre. Immigrants and supplies flowed west while grain and wood products were off-loaded and sent east to the Atlantic ports and international markets. It was an era that spurred on lighthouse construction.
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