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The Collingwood Town Hall is located within the downtown heritage conservation district. The Collingwood downtown heritage conservation district was formally recognized on December 2, 2002, designated under Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act. [2] The heritage district is centred around Hurontario Street; the town’s main street. It houses a ...
Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. It is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay. Collingwood is well known as a tourist destination, for its skiing in the winter, and limestone caves along the Niagara Escarpment in the summer.
Collingwood is widely noted for The Idea of History (1946), which was collated from various sources soon after his death by a student, T. M. Knox.It came to be a major inspiration for philosophy of history in the English-speaking world and is extensively cited, leading to an ironic remark by commentator Louis Mink that Collingwood is coming to be "the best known neglected thinker of our time". [6]
Craigleith Provincial Park was established in 1967 by Ontario Parks.It is a recreation-class provincial park created to help preserve historic oil shale beach. [3] Craigleith Provincial Park is a small park located between Collingwood and Thornbury (10 kilometres (6.2 mi) west of Collingwood) on the southern shores of Georgian Bay.
Tremont House, Collingwood, Ontario. The words "Tremont House" are painted on the building. The entrance sign reads "Tremont Hotel". Parapets intact along the roofline. The Tremont House was built in 1889 by John McCormick. Located across the street from the town’s train station at the time, it was originally a 24 room, luxury hotel.
Village Media is a Canadian media company, which operates a number of hyperlocal online news and community websites throughout Ontario. [1]Village Media's news sites focus on providing local stories written by local journalists in the communities that they serve. [2]
Laurentian Media Group was a Canadian newspaper and magazine publishing company. [1] Founded in 1973 by Michael Atkins, [2] Laurentian published several titles in the Greater Sudbury, Ontario area, including the twice-weekly community newspaper Northern Life, the magazines Northern Ontario Business and Sudbury Living, and the trade publication Sudbury Mining Solutions Journal, as well as ...
He was born in Collingwood, Ontario, on April 29, 1869, to Joseph Whalen and Alice Broad, and died in Duluth, Minnesota June 4, 1929. [1] His marriage to Laurel Conmee in 1896 allied his fortunes to her father, the formidable Ontario politician and contractor James Conmee. He constructed the eight storey Whalen building in Port Arthur in 1913. [2]