Port McNicoll

 

Location:  Simcoe County     N 44 44.877   W 79 48.536
Beside the library, at the corner of 4th Avenue and Davidson Street.
 

The small village of Port McNicoll lies at the southern edge of Georgian Bay, and has for many years been a transportation hub, linking the rail lines to the south with the ports the Great Lakes.  The CPR ran a pair of passenger/freight steamships, the SS Keewatin and the SS Assiniboia.  Since 1912, these ships operated to connect people and goods with places unreachable by roads or rail.  The service was discontinued in 1967, but now the restored SS Keewatin stills sails from this port town, into the waters of Georgian Bay, carrying tourists back into the age of the steamship.

The war memorial found in Port McNicoll's Veterans Park is a limestone cairn with two small plaques, dedicated to the men from this community who lost their lives in the World Wars.



Marker text:
Top plaque:
FREEDOM LOYALTY SACRIFICE
IN HONOR OF
THE MEN OF
PORT MCNICOLL
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN
THE GREAT WAR

HONOR ALSO AND
GRATEFUL TRIBUTE
TO THOSE WHO
DARING TO DIE
SURVIVED

1914 - 1918
S. SAUVE
R. FENTON
 

Bottom plaque:
TO THE HONOUR AND MEMORY OF
THE MEN AND WOMEN FROM
THE VILLAGE OF PORT MCNICOLL
WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR
1939 - 1945

ROBERT J. CROOKE
JAMES F. McCORMICK

JOHN D. GALLAGHER
SIDNEY C. PIBWORTH