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Originally Simpson’s department store, this landmark building was a Bay store from 1991 to 2025. It was the first building in Canada constructed with a load-bearing metal frame.

This plaque commemorates the establishment of the Exhibition (the “Ex”), a national event that has occurred since 1912.

This plaque commemorates the last French post built in present-day Southern Ontario.

In the first years of the 19th century, mills helped to establish a settlement here. Then came the completion of Kingston Road and harbour improvements. Known originally as Hamilton, Cobourg was incorporated as a town in 1850.

A store established here around 1819 by Joseph Keeler, a prominent local merchant and early settler, provided the nucleus around which the community of Colborne began. The settlement thrived as more businesses started. The arrival of the Grand Trunk Railway in 1856 spurred further growth and, three years later, Colborne was incorporated as a village.

This UNESCO World Heritage Site opened on May 24, 1832 to provide a secure military route between Upper and Lower Canada.

In November 1929, two Finnish-Canadians left the Port Arthur area to recruit bushworkers for a strike. Their bodies were found the following spring. Many locals suspected foul play, but the coroner’s jury ruled the deaths as accidental drowning. The two men remain as martyrs to the cause of organized labour.

The longest street in the world was built by Ontario’s first lieutenant governor, John Graves Simcoe, to connect his recently founded Town of York with the naval base at Penetanguishene on Georgian Bay.