Lake Simcoe Ontario - Nancy Spies

I started my journey to Vancouver today with Pink Crusaders’ sister team Hope Floats. I was at our cottage on the north shore of Lake Simcoe so I am pointing in the direction of Welland, where the rest of the team is starting to walk from there-I need to back track to meet them!! On the way, I stopped at Mara Provincial Park, which is on the north east short of Lake Simcoe, just south of the narrows leading to Lake Couchiching near Orillia. 

As a crew, our Journey will take us right past Lake Simcoe during the first week.

 At the time of the first European contact in the 17th century the lake was called Ouentironk ("Beautiful Water") by the Wyandot (Huron) people. It was also known as Lake Taronto until it was renamed by John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, in memory of his father, Captain John Simcoe, Royal Navy.