Grey County Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
county of the Canadian province of Ontario
About Grey County
The first European settlement was in the vicinity of Collingwood or Meaford. Exploring parties arrived from York in 1825 by travelling from Holland Landing and down the Holland River into Lake Simcoe and Shanty Bay. From there they travelled by land to the Nottawasaga River into Georgian Bay and along the thickly wooded shore. In 1837 the village of Sydenham was surveyed by Charles Rankin. In 1856 it was incorporated as the Town of Owen Sound with an estimated population of 2,000. Grey County was named in honour of the British Colonial Secretary's father, Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1830-1834. In 1861-1862 the first gravel roads were constructed into Owen Sound. The four colonization roads were: Prior to the road building it often took two
Grey County Travel Guide Sections
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