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3 unusual facts about Simcoe County


Ontario Highway 88

Highway 88 was built in the 1850s and was the first plank road built in Simcoe County, which originally connected Holland Landing with Bond Head.

Simcoe County

The cities of Barrie and Orillia, although separate politically and administratively from the County, are geographically and economically part of the County and send elected representatives to serve on County committees which provide services to the residents of the cities, including paramedic services, long term care facilities, social services, social housing, archives and Museum.

The cities of Barrie and Orillia are within the Simcoe County census division, but are separated from the county administration.


Angus Macdonell

When Henry Allcock's election was contested, he ran in an 1801 by-election in Durham, Simcoe & 1st York and won, defeating John Small, clerk of the Executive Council.

Ontario Highway 131

Highway 131 was a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Simcoe County and the city of Barrie.

Roman Catholic Archbishops of Toronto

There are 1.6 million Catholics worshiping in 223 parishs in the Archdiocese, in Toronto itself, York Region, Peel Region, Simcoe County, Dufferin County, and Durham Region.

The Huron Feast of the Dead

By the period when the Wyandot migrated to Wendake (on the south shore of Georgian Bay in modern-day Simcoe and Grey counties in Ontario), these mortuary rituals came to represent the unity and friendship of Wyandot bands.


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William Leushner

William D. F. Leushner (November 27, 1863 in Cookstown, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada to Paul J.F.B. Leushner & Ann Evans – October 25, 1935 in Buffalo) was a competitive rifle shooter.