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Barrie is a city in Central Ontario, Canada, about 90 kilometres (56 mi) north of Toronto. The city is within Simcoe County and located along the shores of Kempenfelt Bay. Although it is physically in the county, Barrie is politically independent. The city is part of the extended urban area in southern Ontario known as the Greater Golden Horseshoe.
Located within Sunnidale Park is the Dunsmore Ancestral Huron-Wendat Settlement. [6] The site was the location of a Huron-Wendat settlement in the fifteenth century.. From 1911 to the 1960s the land was used as a nine-hole golf course for the Barrie Golf Club, and later the Barrie Country Club.
The Grey and Simcoe Foresters Regimental Museum is located on Mulcaster Street, Barrie, Ontario. The museum perpetuates the history of the Grey and Simcoe Foresters as a means of instilling pride of regiment and country in new recruits and to enable the public at large to better appreciate the role of the military in the development of the area ...
Ontario Highway 401 crash: 3 September 1999 Tilbury, Ontario: 8 Canada's deadliest multiple-vehicle collision resulted from dense fog conditions on a section of Ontario Highway 401 between Windsor and Tilbury. There were 87 vehicles involved in the pile-up in both directions of the divided highway, killing 8 people and injuring a further 45. [18]
The Sculpture Bird (also called Dream Catcher, Spirit Catcher) is a sculpture situated on the shore of Kempenfelt Bay in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. It was originally created by sculptor Ron Baird for Expo 86 in Vancouver, British Columbia. [1] Nine sculptors were asked to submit proposals for Expo 86, and two were chosen to be commissioned.
Willard L. Kinzie (9 September 1919 – 25 November 2018) was a businessman and former mayor of Barrie, Ontario. [1] After serving as an Alderman, Willard was elected as mayor of the then town and served at the time that it reincorporated as a city.
Allandale Waterfront GO Station [1] [2] is a train and bus station serving as the northern terminus of GO Transit's Barrie line.The station was built just south of Allandale Station, a historic train station that occupies a large property on the southern shore of Kempenfelt Bay (Lake Simcoe) in the waterfront area of Barrie, Ontario, Canada.
Based in Barrie, Ontario, the 157th Battalion, Simcoe Foresters, began recruiting in late 1915 in Simcoe County. 2,450 volunteers were recruited, of which 1,070 officers and other ranks were enlisted in the battalion.