| The Rev. J. M. Jones shown in the Tea Meeting Picture is the Rev. J. M. Jones incumbent of St. George's Church, Fairvalley, and St. Luke's Church., Prices Corners. He was a witty Welshman. |
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Tea Meeting Team |
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Old Elephant House Northwest corner of Mississaga and Front Street. |
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The Albion Hotel, according to C. H. Hale, was located on the south side of Mississaga St., not the north side as indicated. |
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| The Lake of Bays, of Trading Lake, as was its early name was long a rendezvous for traders. Bigwin Island was later named after Chief Joseph Big Wind. The location of the traders according to very early maps was at the landing where now is Bigwin Inn. In the 1860's the Hudson's Bay Company established a trading Post under the jurisdiction of factors, Thomas Goffatt of Orillia. It was a small rough cast building and the clerk in charge lived above the store where the trading was done. The Hudson's Bay Company actually established their post at the Narrows, Orillia, in the mid - 1800's as that it was not of really early origin. The name Washago may reflect the influence of the Hudson's Bay traders and their connection with the Washago Indians who are, to this day, located on the Severn River which flows into Hudson's Bay. |