South Bruce Peninsular - The 3 Ghosttowns - Comments

Maybe we could start a rumour ...

garym — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:12:33 -0500

"Yup, it's purdy alright. Get that nice red glow on account o' that island out there, jus' b'low t'orizon, an' jus' b'low t'surface on account o' it sunk back in 1847. 'S why you see them fishin' ships always goes waaay out 'n the deeper parts. You can see it from t'Ice Berg, y'know ..."

Aye, Davey, and we's be in with 'em quick sellin' em this here Old Capt'n Wunderlich's booty treasure map o' yor's, if'n ye'll be a good lad now and jus' 'and it over here now, real slow like ...

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garym — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:50:08 -0500

sigh -- I am so deeply disappointed. I was all set to float my van out the 60 leagues or so this summer and trek out in Search of Leonard Nimoy ...

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ok..the truth..

bub — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:24:31 -0500

If you look how they did this old map, the northern part of bruce was put normal, south bruce was on an angle, and it was /funk/ overlapped, so what you are seeing is a magnified view of north bruce south end
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/bruce.htm
But I like the Atlantis theory and still think it could be a draw..after all Tinfoil hats may stop UFO's and Vapour trails, and even ghosts, but aint nothin gonna stop Atlantis!

Ok..I didn't want to tell you..but

bub — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:16:33 -0500

Ok..I admit.I tried to keep it a secret, but I slipped up.It's Atlantis.Its true.I think we should add that to the UFO and Ghost list, don't you? ;)

Atlantis ... discovered!

garym — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:55:18 -0500

Wait now just a dad-blasted second here, let me take a look at that map again. What in tarnation is this:

Clearly there that's the Sauble nee Sable River in the top-right, the Hepworth-backroad extending to the Lakeshore as 6th Ave just below it, and our current Main Street dashed in between the Con and the D just above where Bannister Park meets the little lake, so I'm pretty darn sure of my geo-locations here ...

So where'd that freakin' island come from?

Right there, off the map on the left, labelled XIV you can't miss it, it's there.

And not just any little piddlin' Chief's Point sort of cottage-sized clump of rock, that's a pretty substantial multi-lot assignment whole-of-downtown sized sizable slab of real estate!

So ... like ... someone do tell: where did it go?

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garym — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:18:02 -0500

Arrr, Davey me boy, that be whar the Capt'n be hidin' 'is booty. An' aye'll be a-takin' that there map if ye'll be a good lad an' jus' 'and it over nice and slow like ...

What really fascinates me with these old maps is the gaps, the missing stories that are all out there, somewhere, and tell us a bit about who we are and how we got here. For example ...

Why is D-Line the boundary of the old Consession C? Con-D is pretty clearly bounded by the Parkway to Oliphant ... isn't it?
When and how and why did 'Sable' become 'Sauble'?
Notice how what's now the video/convenience store was once the Sable Post Office, right next to the Sable Falls Mill ... what happened to that Mill? Are there any photos around? Presumably that was the downtown way back when, so what happened that it all just vanished back into the bush?

Years ago a friend of mine from down in Tara told us how he enjoyed canoe trips up the various rivers here in the SBP, and how each journal was punctuated by staying in the abandoned buildings of villages forgotten by time once the travellers shifted off the waterways and on to the highways. Paul said time was the teens held their field-parties in these places (that would be an unplugged pre-digital 'rave' to you younger readers, something you might deftly bring up with your parents when they forbid you to go out to those places ... and sadly one of the many things I missed out on of the special joys of rural living having arrived here too late in life) -- he described one such party site as being reached by way of a tunnel through an ever decreasing ceiling of trees to eventually open up at a large ruin where the party lasted 'til dawn -- now there's a magical establishing-shot, right here in our backyard, just like a scene out of Big Fish!

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just as an aside..

bub — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 01:18:09 -0500

Anyone wanting to see an old map of Sauble, and Amabel visit the McGill Digital Library

hmm I wonder who could possibly live under the big X.

The 3 Ghosttowns

bub — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 01:05:10 -0500

A little tidbit of more history of the Bruce.While doing a little digging into the past, I came across an interesting tidbit about our area.Yes there are abandoned towns, ghost towns we call them all over, but it seems our specific locale may have the distinction having 3 ghost towns all with the same name, Balaclava.One in Grey, one in Renfrew, and one near Mildmay.You can read about that here .While researching the Bruce county Balaclava, I found resources slim, but did discover Lauries homepage, with in depth knowledge of the history, and life of the area of the township of Carrick, you may want to read about it here.Feel free to add any details ;)

South Bruce Peninsular - The 3 Ghosttowns - Comments

Maybe we could start a rumour ...

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ok..the truth..

Ok..I didn't want to tell you..but

Atlantis ... discovered!

Shivers Me Timbers

just as an aside..

The 3 Ghosttowns

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