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l V0 ( AL. A. , """"-'"erNhs'Nr'tfstsr-, - - _ , i? th -'--__'-i---e-sei---- ------'- : -"i'£ £223 to the lovely Fownsllips of Grey '. l T " A Se , _ AMABEL TOWNSHIP has delivered over t F 0 S by Kris Morris of Vidal . . What makes A b 3'16 would slide down on to beaches anywhere in the q I Old any Tmst '," TQWnship foremost 31:11:] Hsr sandy beaches of Lake world. Boat and SO many smaller "--.-.' ihefbolourfui Townshi S ' o coin - northward we can Next day we leave by way ones. But these are not li Grey and B 9 p . g up and up to the main of the sand dunes as merely landlocked bodies of T e ' ruce. It IS trunk of the Bruc P . - we water. Once th . g because of its uni ue 1 s 1 B e enin head out north. The dunes li k ey were vital '_"' names? Its 'tdli111teg1"l,t fe/rlhl'dtl',f,1,y, It, stay here of Sauble. For naturalists It?' teat1cenHee,',r,g.iant Bay q :-' _ _ e s - A e . . .' l0!6?_lts combination of Hepworth got I'l 2lt, no): they me? wild flowers, Indians and 'tTip),',", .farm and r . . e. rare orchi s, lady slippers T n ur '_. vac.',.,' _ V es.?rt, areas or good English name. But I bi d ' "de used them as a ,..Jl.lst because it is jumpin it seems iti , as unusua ". s and water- escape to t b n . J, Off-place. for the entirg letter todl IS a 1'T, of one fowl. A quick visit to the two great 2: etween those _,' 311165. Peninsula. Probably it that in the" Ily; Etums oyt park at . the Falls of the so .they Wiggly waterways '. is.a' combination of all these settlm y ays. o.f its buble.R.iver renews ouroW safer inste d PO ige to . _ that leads us today to begin who with: tf bmmISter acquaintances with the "the stay with of (going all T _ T . T _ r S e o estow a loveliest cascad . F . an a.roun _/-' 19,hrti,'g'vtt,tii,y of the Ama. name upon a new commu- side of the Peniensgali. we: ', rt,ti,t,S', of the, treacherous V. .2 "The TOWEI'Sh' . h n??? thought of the founder . see green" crashing water Eavégs' a. Boat Lake you T , ,_ .. ". 1p wit a o IS Church, John Wesley descending the rocks of th . many a voyageur l xiwonderful past and a pro- and his birthplace, Epworth. Falls and in the h e from a long and dangerous ". ,iillsmgsflltllrc. Let's take a His fellow villagers, igno- below pick out familia Cfasm voyage - bless you. ifs-(tour Tr hi this delightful rant of the Methodist his- and flowers. How MEI-0:528 .N_ow north' again and we T Tosvtrtt.it. We can start at tory accepted the name as ed and natural this love]. Skirt . the busy town of . the Village bf Allenford they heard it pronounced glen seems. _ y Tiarttyy We will save that qt A itltete. We find ourselves 750 and Hepworth it is today. Continuing north 'we mark attractive haven for the ' feet, .359"? sea level and But this is not the end of off the great number of tourists for another day . '-':C'imbm3~rapldly. Allenford, the charms of this Ontario inland lakes of Amabel et s go on up t? Ollphant - _ syrrséti)trptt1ts go in these village.weep down under Township. They are five [what a harmonious name. -,"'.P{{Fi§.'.l$' among the oldest. the community's collective great ones - Chesley, Mer- "a? do we know that this -.ItlS 'tscllhrhtiiitplace over a foundations runs a hidden ryville, Gould, Spry and -Smal costal hamlet, named g- century. pltrrrliist what a river. Residents of the -" after Lauren"? Oliphant, . ,sha'm'e' it'has'losi. its Indian Village will tell us that late I l ' _, '_ha_m§,85 ras,ttr many of our at night on a warm sum- who m 18.54 secured the .' early' towns and villages mers eve, they sleep the Btu." Peninsula hom the . "throughout. the "Twin Coun- best of all the people in [ Indians, wa? once marked . 'ties. Who tMay knows this Ontario, lulled into dreams I out as a major city. oppos- J "iteacefutu\tni9el community by their very own special it.e a.re the fishing islands _ _ivyir"otce/.'tjMysti, stDriftivood deep flowing, but never rich in folklore and one rich' l "crossing"; after the annual seen stream. No wonder so ln_the fishing industry. But l "fcurrcnts that. was broken many prefer this place with Ollphant trver..became a ,1 r branches . and uprooted its fy."' letter too many and major metropolis as the _ 1, trunks l _ clog" the usually its friendly people. founders _had hoped for. l "3 'Peacefui stream that runs How .a.bou.t heading west? 1'od.ay it IS the cove of the T ,,.ithr.ough the area. It's getting late and maybe Peninsula. A retreat for " Let s move on. into our we can watch the most summer .cetttgers, year T Township. past green and glorious sight to be seen in round residents, artists and rolling forms into Park Head this the lovely County of nature lovers. and _ the tracks of the Bruce. As we drive away A We have not seen all of Canadian National Railway. from Hepworth into the ever mabel Town.shiry There Here we see a cruster of flattening farmland across are many enJoyable days homes and lo and behold a the Sauble River, we hurry ahead to exe1.o.re this lovli- library. This is of some for the sun is beginning to est t.tTowntrps, to fish at historical importance. After set and We want to find a sparkling . trout streams, all; over a decade before place for the night among walk on silver beaches and Amabel became a separate the many fine motels and 50nd" wonderful history. Township in 1870 this resorts that grace the sum- . ut, we know, that Amabel quaint village was close to mer wonderland that is if a plac.e that will draw us l the home of the first white Sauble Beach. ack again and again. settler on the Peninsula Now, out of our lodgings lands that had recently been and onto the Beach, Miles conveyed to the Crown by of white sand and swooping the Saugeen Indians. sea gulls are to be seen as ' Let's go a few miles on we watch the sun set over north and find the bustling Lake Huron. A glory of red f Village of Hepworth. This is and pink that slowly dimi- . a main intersection where nishes as we walk along the . we, as travellers have to quiet beaches of Sauhlei make a decision, westward Surely there are no finer