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Postcards From the Bay

Nearly a century and a half ago, the village of Colpoy's Bay, Ontario (click link to view a map), now officially 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.  A man of many talents, he constructed many 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 member of the Kalbfleisch family has resided in that house ever since.

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 to the end of the nineteenth century...


 

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Postcards From the Bay was launched April 14, 2000