South Bruce Peninsular - Places - Comments

Apologies. I'm Irish

garym — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:54:00 -0400

Aye, you're right on that, Dan. Point taken, surplus of them and all. But it's our policy that a man chases a woman until she catches him; I was thinking more that the vendor was going to have to be a lot more chaseful to woo that catch from the other desperados.

never was much on economics anywho

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Gary, Don't short change yourself

Dan O. — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:27:09 -0400

The women outnumber us. It's a seller's market. There just ain't enough good men around for all those women:) But you know how it is, if they buy you a few beers sometimes they can wear you down.

Dan O.

sauble falls village

hockey17 — Tue, 15 May 2007 16:13:08 -0400

I Have learned that the Sauble Falls historical committee have completed their efforts on the Sauble Falls village. To that end there will be an official ribbon cutting and dedication hosted by the town on SATURDAY JUNE 9 at 11:00 am . It will be to display the work done by a group of local residents to research ,interpret and develop signage to describe the village of Sauble Falls...the bridge(the first historically designated piece in the town), the hydro electric plant, the sawmill, the school, the homes
and the post office and general store.
it will be a short ceremony but all the people who worked on the project..the committee members, relatives and friends of the pioneers, Ontario Parks, Bruce County museum as well as Bridge Excavating and Echo Graphics and Henderson Paddon have been invited..the public is welcome to come as well...
interesting work to see and it will remain there for future visitors

A lot of the old-growth timber

rcomputer — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:26:56 -0500

A lot of the old-growth timber would have been lost in the 1902 fire.

sauble falls village

hockey17 — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 19:43:33 -0500

a lot happened here but in the late 1800's early 1990's..a group of folk from here have worked all the summer months and and have set in place plans to outline all that happened there with plaques and pics..so watch for the May unveiling of the work and see how active things were there

good question Paul

bub — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 21:02:02 -0500

The first real industry of course was fishing, but that was early 1800's and not what we consider a massive industry now, but after that of course was the Mill, at the falls, there are still a few remnants there, but I know you know that.With it, was massive logging operations which pretty near got rid of most old growth forest, and now there are a lot of species of trees that really are not local to this area(I'll let Sabrinus get onto this he knows all about this)Further down the river, there are also old remnants of factories, which I think is in Tara area..or something like that, its on a site that is about canoeing along the river, I'll try and dig it up.
But of course, over Southampton/Port Elgin way, there was also a wooded area notorious for stills during the depression...

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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Shivers Me Timbers

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.

wow

bub — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 01:15:01 -0500

It amazes me to see Lauras accomplishments, but when I look around...she is in good company.I have seen many women in the S.B.P. area step forward and lead in many areas...I hope they follow in her footsteps and get into the political side.S.B.P. could use a lot more of that....

Here is a hearty cheers to the women of S.B.P.

Bear facts

garym — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 11:56:29 -0500

It likely wouldn't have mattered that much -- bears, apparently, overwhelmingly prefer Ranier to Busch.

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South Bruce Peninsular - Places - Comments

Apologies. I'm Irish

Gary, Don't short change yourself

sauble falls village

A lot of the old-growth timber

sauble falls village

good question Paul

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..

wow

Bear facts

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