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Postcards From the Bay

In 1857 the village of Colpoy's Bay, Ontario (click link to view a map), now part of the Town of South Bruce Peninsula (click to view the official Colpoy's Bay community profile), was permanently settled by my great-great-great grandfather John Wood and his brother-in-law Samuel Atkinson.  A man of many talents, John constructed some of the village's oldest and finest buildings and also operated a local grist mill. John's daughter Sarah married Henry Kalbfleisch, my great-great grandfather. In 1920, Henry's son Edwin (my great-grandfather) purchased one of the village's largest houses, originally built in 1884 by John Wood. A descendant of the Kalbfleisch family resided in that house for the following 100 years, until it was sold in 2020.

Although scant physical evidence remains of early life in Colpoy's Bay, vintage postcards and photographs offer a unique visual perspective of the history and development of the village and those people that built it.

Now, take a step back in time and read about the history of the village of Colpoy's Bay, first surveyed on paper in 1855...


 

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Postcards From the Bay was launched April 14, 2000