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Road is a suffixed route that runs east-west and defaults from Woodbine Avenue (RR #8), (with a turn required for traffic to continue along Woodbine). The road is also secretly designated as number #88. [7] Road name derived from early road surveying commonly used in the 19th and early 20th Centuries in Ontario.
Jackson's Point Lighthouse. Jackson's Point is a summer resort harbour located in the township of Georgina, on Lake Simcoe in Ontario, Canada.It was originally part of a naval land grant made to Captain William Bourchier (December 9, 1791 – January 22, 1844) in 1819 (Bourchier was commander of the Provincial Marine's Lake Huron establishment out of Penetanguishene Naval Yard.
The land grant was sold to William's brother James, who in turn sold the Point to Mr. Jackson (who gave his name to the area, Jackson's Point). James used the proceeds of the sale to found the village of Sutton, Ontario on the remaining land. Twenty years later, William returned to Canada with his second wife and family to live in his newly ...
Georgina is a town in south-central Ontario.The northernmost municipality in the Regional Municipality of York, the town is bounded to the north by Lake Simcoe.Although incorporated as a town, it operates as a township in which dispersed communities share a common administrative council.
King's Highway 55, commonly referred to as Highway 55 and historically as the Niagara Stone Road and Black Swamp Road, was a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario, which connected the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) with Niagara-on-the-Lake, following Niagara Stone Road.
The sentence "Highway 55 began at an intersection with the old Iroquois Road, which later became Highway 8, until 1970, when it became Niagara Regional Road 81; it is also known as Queenston Street to the west and York Road to the east." is wordy and should be condensed and/or split.
Steamer Enterprise loads cargo onto a Grand Trunk train on the wharf at Jackson's Point. The passenger station at Jackson's Point was a simple affair. Workers and their families pose for a photo while ice cutting at Jackson's Point in 1895. A Grand Trunk train waits in the background. The Lake Simcoe Junction Railway (LSJR) was a short-line ...
Jackson's Point Camp & Conference Centre is located near the summer resort harbour at Lake Simcoe in Jackson's Point, Ontario. The campgrounds were first purchased by The Salvation Army in 1917, but the Army ran summer camps on the grounds for nearly a decade before. [ 9 ]