Rural Routes - Port Dover

413 Main,
Port Dover, Ontario
N0A 1N0

Ontario Tourism Region : Southwestern

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Pop. 5,398. Part of the City of Nanticoke, Reg. Mun. of Haldimand-Norfolk, on L. Erie at the mouth of the Lynn R. and Hwy 6 and C. Rds. 5 & 6, 13 km SE of Simcoe.
French Sulpician missionaries wintered on the site in 1669-1670, but no settlers came for more than a century.
In the early 1800s United Empire Loyalists began to arrive. Daniel McQueen built a dam and a mill near a ford across the River Lynn, and the site became known as Dover Mills or Dover, after the English port of Dover.
In 1814 Port Dover and nearby Ryerse's Mills, now Port Ryerse, were destroyed in a raid by 800 American soldiers led by Lt.-Col. John Campbell. The raid was subsequently condemned by a U.S. Army court of inquiry, and the settlers began to rebuild.
The post office was established as Port Dover in 1832. Port Dover has the world's largest fresh water fishing fleet.
Postcards above used with permission from A Great Lakes Treasury of Old Postcards 2007 Lorenzo Marcolin, MD 176 pp. For Copies call the Huronia Museum 705 526 2844 or email lmarcolin@aol.com

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Off the beaten track:	Woodhouse Acres, 2km Shand's Corner, 4km Avalon Park, 4km Dogs Nest, 4km Marburg, 6km Port Ryerse, 5km Lynn Valley, 6km Renton, 8km Vaughan Survey, 6km Halfway House Corner, 6km Crescent Bay, 7km Tyrrell, 11km Varency, 10km Fishers Glen, 10km Vittoria, 10km Simcoe, 10km Townsend, 13km	Colborne, 12km Sandy Cove, Port Dover area, 10km Normandale, 12km Rockford, Simcoe area, 14km Bloomsburg, 13km Keadon Park, 11km Hillcrest, Simcoe area, 12km Hickory Beach, Port Dover area, 12km Townsend Centre, 16km VillaNova, 17km Turkey Point, 14km White Oaks Village, 17km Nober, 18km Waterford, 17km Walsh, 14km Bill's Corners, Simcoe area, 14km Garnet, 18km	Lynnville, 17km Bill's Corners, Waterford area, 20km Sandusk, 16km Lambs Corners, 16km Dundurn, 21km Nixon, 17km Springvale, Hagersville area, 21km Round Plains, 20km Forestville, 18km Greens Corner, Simcoe area, 17km Bealton, 23km Boston, Waterford area, 23km Hartford, 24km Little Buffalo, 24km The Cottages, 23km Rattlesnake Harbour, 19km
Nearby Lakes:	Silver Lake, 1km Crystal Lake, 10km Sutton's Pond, 11km Waterford Ponds, 18km Island Pond, 22km Second Island Pond, 23km Mallards Pond, 24km Victoria Lake, 25km Shanty Pond, 24km Umbrella Pond, 25km Bouck Pond, 26km Helmer's Pond, 25km Peter's Pond, 25km Anderson Pond, 27km Smiths Mill Pond, 27km Duncan's Pond, 28km Vivians Pond, 28km	Long Pond, 29km Willow Lake, 30km Dry Lake, 27km Lake Hunger, 30km Mohawk Lake, 38km Mill Pond, 36km Dunmark Lake, 46km Blue Lake, 50km Levey Lake, 47km O'neals Pond, 50km Watts Pond, 50km Lake Niapenco, 46km Cooley Pond, 47km Spottiswood Lakes, 53km St. Josephs Lake, 42km Pinehurst Lake, 55km Moore Pond, 56km	Turnbull Lake, 56km Christie Reservoir, 57km Despond Lakes, 57km Grass Lake, 57km Hillside Lake, 57km Deans Lake, 58km Elliott's Lake, 58km Lake Lisgar, 44km Millers Lake, 57km Cottrell Lake, 58km Cowan's Lake, 58km Wrigley's Lake, 58km Bannister Lake, 58km Little Turnbull Lake, 58km McCrone's Lakes, 59km Taylor Lake, 60km

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