Location: N 44° 38.940 W 079° 35.755 A small but impressive roadside parkette on the 11th Line N, where it turns to the east to meet Mt. St. Louis Road.
CAPTAIN ELMES YELVERTON STEELE, R.N.
1781-1865
SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVY DURING NAPOLEONIC WARS
SETTLED IN PURBROOK, MEDONTE, 1832
FIRST MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR SIMCOE, 1841
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
COLONEL OF THE MILITIA
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JOHN COUCHER STEELE
1817-1909
REEVE OF TOWNSHIP OF ORO, 1859-1876
WARDEN OF COUNTY OF SIMCOE 1875
ERECTED BY THE ORILLIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
For more history of this famous hero of the Napoleonic War, and the family, please refer to the following link:
http://www.archive.org/stream/medontepioneerhi00nporuoft/medontepioneerhi00nporuoft_djvu.txt
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