Monthly Archives: February 2024

In the Town of Blue Mountains, ON there is a small hamlet called Craigleith. Originally, it was called Shaleville and was in the Township of Alta. In ca. 1836,  its first settler arrived – John Brazier and his wife Elizabeth along with their five children. They arrived from West Gwillimbury after the road going alongContinue reading “The First Settler in Shaleville in Alta Township, known today as Craigleith – Town of Blue Mountains, Ontario.”

Every corduroy road leads somewhere: This past Tuesday, I walked an early settlement corduroy road that my late dear friend Clive drew a map of from his memory and sent to me. His grandpa told him that at one time it was the only road between Duncan and Flesherton, and that it was an oxContinue reading “Rob Roy McGregor and the Corduroy Road”

Petun Conservation Area This Viking and Ojibwe friend hiked the Land of the Anishinaabeg people on the Niagara Escarpment. This place is now referred to as the Petun Conservation Area in the Town of Blue Mountains. We stood together on the ancient rock where his ancestors once stood and looked out across the Land andContinue reading “The Viking and the Ojibwe Chief”