Innisfil

Innisfil is a metropolis in Ontario, Canada, placed on the western shore of Lake Simcoe in Simcoe County, at once south of Barrie and 80 kilometres north of Toronto. It has traditionally been a rural place, however increase within the Barrie place and the Greater Toronto Area has supposed extra residential improvement in Innisfil.The records of Innisfil spans a duration in excess of a hundred and seventy years. The Town was hewn from almost unbroken virgin forests which were domestic to the Huron Indians, and turned into first surveyed in 1820. The place encompassed sixty eight,653 acres, consisting of the villages of Allandale, Tollendal, Painswick, Minets Point, and Holly at the time.

The first settlers were the Hewson and Soules households who came by way of the East Holland River and Lake Simcoe to settle at Point Endeavour that they then renamed Hewson's Point. The Hewsons settled on March 30, 1820, and the Soules in 1822. The Warnica circle of relatives settled the following year, in 1823, inside the region now called Painswick. The first sawmill inside the Township turned into constructed at Tollendal by way of George McMullen in 1829. At this time James Soules owned a sawmill on the south 1/2 of lot 26 concession fourteen, Innisfil wherein he made the lumber for the development of the first frame residence in Innisfil for Lewis J. Clement.