Archive 011 / Lover's Creek

Archive 011 - Lover's Creek

Before the subdivisions, there were mills.

At one time, four of them lined Lover’s Creek between Yonge Street and Kempenfelt Bay — using the little waterway that now slips quietly through Barrie’s south end as a source of power.

In 1862, a dam was built near Big Bay Point Road to create a reservoir for the Morse Mill downstream. A stone-lined raceway carried the water toward the mill — and traces of it can apparently still be found along the creek today.

The landscape changed. The mills disappeared. Barrie grew around it.

But the creek stayed.

A small piece of the old south end, running right through the new one.

ARCHIVE 011 - LOVER'S CREEK
Barrie, Ontario.

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