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Begun in the 1820's -- The naval establishments by Barb McConnell, Information Officer, Huronia Historical Parks. Whitewashed, log buildings scattered about the hillside overlooking Penetanguishene Bay comprised the Naval and Military Establishments in 1820. Paths winding through the high, weedy grass connected the shuildings and eventually @: to the dusty track ich he half-mile length of the outpost. A few children, browned by the sun, may have fashioned mudpies on the road, scampering away when the guard marched past on its way to replace the sentry at the naval storehouse. It was a bustling com- munity of nearly 70 people. The Establishments began in 1817, after the War of 1812-14. The base, the British Admiralty had decided, would keep two schooners in reserve, without masts or rigging, but ready should there be renewed aggressions from the south. The war was not long over and the British were still wary of the Americans. Progress was steady Progress, if not speedy, was steadyand by the early 1820's, the Royal Navy had completed barracks, offices a blacksmith shop, homes, a hospital and a number of outbuildings. A working dockyard, slip, sawpit and huge storehouse edged the shoreline. The three-storied, red storehouse was the most important structure on the base. Piled high to the 20-foot ceilings were Cont'd on p. 16 Penetanguishene's beginnings On August 1, 1615, Samuel de Champlain, later to be first Governor of Canada, landed at Toanche (probably the North West Basin) in Penetanguishene Har- bour. He found the surrounding country "very fine, mostly cleared, with many hills and several streams which make it an _agreeable district."' With him were two Fren- chmen, one of them the interpreter Etienne Brilé. Father Joseph Le Caron, Recollet priest, accompanied by twelve French, had arrived a few days previously. Champlain joined them at Carhagouha (near the western shores. of Penetanguishene Har- bour), a village strongly fortified by a triple palisade, 35 feet high. On August 12, Father Le Caron celebrated Mass at Carhagouha and "a cross was set up near a little cabin apart from the village," which the Indians had built for him. Champlain's_ chief interests . were _ ex- ploration and the development of the fur trade with these distant tribes, but specifically he had come to fulfill an earlier promise that he would assist the Hurons in warfare against their enemy the. Iroquois. He accordingly departed from Carhagouha on August 14 for Cahiague (near Orillia) a palisaded village of 200 "fairly large lodges" where the Huron warriors, and a band of Algonquin warriors under their chief Iroquet, were to gather for the attack on an Iroquois tribe in the present state of New York. The army set out from Cahiague on Sep- tember 1, and returned, unsuccessful, on December 20. A month later Cham- plain re-joined Father Le Caron and the other French at Carhagouha. He spent four months in the Huron country, and a short period in the country of the Petuns, to the west. He had planned more distant explorations with the Nipissing tribe of Algonquins but this was prevented by an urgent request to mediate in a dispute that had arisen over the treatment of a prisoner, between the people of Cahiague and Iroquet's Algonquins who were wintering near them. In May the Hurons assembled for their an- nual voyage to trade on the St. Lawrence, and Champlain and Father Le Caron accompanied them. They left these shores on May 20, 1616, and arrived at the St. Louis Rapids (La Chine) at the end of June, 1616. The Penetanguishene Peninsula where Carhagouha, Toanche and their neighbouring villages were situated, where French traders, scouts and missionaries lived until the destruction of the Huron nation in 1649, is therefore the first locality west of Quebec to be inhabited by Europeans in the years when Quebec itself was but a tiny-trading post on the St. Lawrence River. In addition LEMBO Corporation of Canada Ltd. A history of producing better processing systems for wallcovering These world renowned integrated Gravure systems are Lembo's contribution to the boom in wallcoverings. Mr. Frank Lembo is in charge of manufacturing at the Midland plant. Headed up by Mr. Tom Lembo (president) this company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of an American corporation, locating here in Midland was the develop the export market. 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