Grey Bruce Image Archives
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Owen Sound Harbour from westside looking east - from GBIAs George Frazer Collection. photo by George Frazer c.1970s bottom photo digitally restored by Robert A. Cotton,

This is an item in the CWHC collection. Do you know what it is? What do the C.H.&V. Co. stand for? Did one of your ancestors or relatives work for this company in Owen Sound. The answer will be posted this evening.

2020 marks a significant milestone for the City of Owen Sound 100 years as a city. The Act to incorporate the City of Owen Sound, passed by the Legislative ...Assembly of Ontario, May 12, 1920, was the means that changed the County Town into a city. As noted in the preamble of the Act, several factors contributed to the decision to grant city status, including, a population of over 12,000, the presence of manufacturing firms and transportation infrastructure, the Towns position as a centre of a successful agricultural region, and public support for the change. And although its name would change, some aspects of the Towns administration remained. For example, Owen Sound would retain its four Wards Bay Ward, West Ward, River Ward, and Centre Ward. Owen Sounds new identity as a city began on June 1, 1920, and according to a report from The Durham Review, the event was celebrated by a terrific din, blowing of whistles and all kinds of noise. Official celebrations were also planned for July 1. Interested in learning more? View the Act to incorporate the City of Owen Sound at: https://greyroots.com//town-city-1920-act-incorporate-city See more

A decade ago another project was evolving, the 9th St. bridge was being replaced. These are the only photos I have of the bridge construction. In the first p...hoto a giant crane arm was pumping cement across the bridge to construction crews on the far side. Notice the old pool hall building was still by the new bridge in the photos. . The Sydenham Condominum project was not in existence back in this time period. I wanted to share these old photos from a time period, that we can look back at, as another event of history that took place on the Sydenham River.

#TBT In April 1964, Howard Krug and friends worked to blaze and create the original Bruce Trail. The Bruce Trail officially opened in 1967, but work started on... developing the trail on the Peninsula as early as 1962. Howard Krug organized a group from the Chesley area who headed north up to eight days a year in 1964 and 1965 to work on the original trail between Cabot Head and northwest of Cave Point. (Until 1978, the trail ran from Winfield Basin along the base of West Bluff and then beside the escarpment edge to High Dump). https://bit.ly/2y209O7 Bruce County Arran Elderslie Northern Bruce Peninsula South Bruce Peninsula #brucecountyhistory #brucetrail

Its Archives Awareness Week in Ontario! Enjoy exploring historic images through our Online Collections Photos Gallery at https://bit.ly/2X8bJlt where you can... discover what life looked like over the years in all of our communities. Bruce Countys Archives Awareness Week is sponsored by the Bruce County Historical Society. #ArchivesAwarenessWeek #2020AAW Due to the closure of Bruce County buildings, the display and Free Admission we had planned for April will be rescheduled to a date later in the year to be determined.

Removing CN/CP tracks crossing 10th St at 1st Ave E. O.S. 1981?

Owen Sounders worked on S.S. Manitoba as summer waiters in 1930s - Sun Times clippings 1989, received from Bob bower

Moving north to yet another harbour, an aerial view of Lions Head, ON. January 25, 1963. Photo from Grey Bruce Image Archives Gerry McDonald Collection

Another harbour today - Wiarton, ON. Aerial shot January 1963 photo from Grey Bruce Image Archives Gerry McDonald Collection.

Congratulations to Billy Bishop Home & Museum on being shortlisted for national award. Grey Bruce Image Archives (GBIA), myself and Foto Art Camera Shop were gl...ad to be part in this collabortive community exhibit by making digital copies of J.James photographs of the Polish Soldiers available. Grey Bruce Image Archives has since donated the negatives of these photographs to Grey Roots Archives. See more

Rob Cottons article on the history of Owen Sound harbour "The Fortunes of a Georgian Bay Harbour" is now available in the fall edition of Grey Bruce Boomer ma...gazine. Its FREE and available at Foto Art Camera and many other outlets. Read here: http://www.greybruceboomers.com/pdfs/GBB_Fall2019_web.pdf Find one near you here: http://www.greybruceboomers.com/pdfs/GBB_Distributors.pdf Copies of his book "Owen Sound Harbour - A Photographic History" are still available at: Foto Art Camera - Owen Sound Owen Sound Tourism Office Grey Roots Museum and Archives Readers Haven Bookstore - Tobermory

Historic harbour tours starting today. Thanks Emma McConachie Anderson.

and one more from David Strutt

In this months #TBT posts, were exploring Tourism in Bruce County. Flower Pot Island has been a local attraction to visit for a very long time! Check out th...is photo of flowerpot rock formations on Flowerpot Island from 1927. A group of people are standing at the base of the rock formations. Northern Bruce Peninsula #ThrowBackThursday See more

#HistoricCommunity Todays feature is Pretty River Valley. Located around the area of Lot 2, Con. 2 of Collingwood Twp (Town of the Blue Mountains), Pretty Rive...r Valley was aptly named for its rim of hills and sparkling stream. The small community included a school (U.S.S. 10), a Baptist Church, a post office, and two sawmills. To see more Historic Communities in Grey County, check out https://geo.grey.ca/communities/ See more

These shipping documents of PresquIsle entrepreneur John Mackenzie were lent to us by Rosemary Davis. John MacKenzie moved to what became know as PresquIle in Sarawak in 1864. In 1866 he and one Mr. Black, formed MacKenzie & Black selling and shipping pressed hay, cordwood and general supplies. He also built a large dock and in 1873 a lighthouse. Mr. Black left by 1879. PresquIsle became a thriving port exporting at one point $63,000 annually to the ports of Georgia Bay and the upper lakes. Steamers such as Francis Smith, City of Owen Sound Jane Miller and Canada stopped at PresquIsle to pick up goods for opening the west, especially the land between Fort William and Winnipeg. More information read "Sarawak Saga, R.M. McLeod, 1973" available at Owen Sound Library.

Owen Sound Harbour - 1967 or later. Canadian Coast Guards SPUME in the lower left. From GBIAs Owen Sound Camera Club Collection photographer Bob Tucker

"USCGC Mackinaw (WAGB-83)" in Owen Sound harbour 1960s? From GBIA Owen Sound Camera Club Collection photo by Bob Tucker The first USCGC Mackinaw (WAGB-83) was l...aunched in March 1944 and commissioned on December 20 of that year. The vessel was the largest and most powerful ice breaker anywhere in the world at that time. With the increased ice breaking capabilities that the Mackinaw brought to the Great Lakes, the shipping channels and commerce remained open year round. After 40 years of service she was finally decommissioned in 2006 The ship was designated to become The Icebreaker Mackinaw Maritime Museum located in Mackinaw City, Michigan. https://ss.sites.mtu.edu//the-building-and-services-of-th/ See more

Two men posing at Flowerpot island, 1940s

Harrison Park - So when did this happen? photo from GBIAs Gerry McDonald Collection

From Grey Bruce Image Archives Stanley Player Collection.

A few snaps from the twilight of the fishing era in Tobermory

Tobermory fishermen in the 60s

bringing home dinner

Another old, but wonderful photo. This pic, compliments of the Adis and Crawford families, shows the wreck of Monarch on Fox Island, December 1908.

#HistoricCommunity Todays feature is Mulock. Located on Lots 25 and 26, Con. 6 and 7 of Bentinck Twp (West Grey), the community of Mulock included a school (S....S. 6), the Bentinck Baptist Church, and Emkes Sawmill. The church and school are shown on the Beldens Illustrated Historical Atlas of Grey and Bruce Counties, 1880. To see more Historic Communities in Grey County, check out https://geo.grey.ca/communities/ See more

Wiarton harbour showing boats and barges including: Str. Joe Milton, Lothair, John T. Mott, Craftsman, W.E. Gladstone, Newman scow, Watt scow, A.G. Seaman, the tug Sanford and the Coughill Dredge. Photo compliments of the Adis and Crawford families.

This is one of my favourite photographs to have come through the Grey Bruce Image Archives Collection. I think this photograph of a small-river-mouth harbour was taken in Bruce or Grey County, possibly on Manitoulin Island.