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Holland Landing and East Gwillimbury Real Estate Information; Holland Landing
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The Town of East Gwillimbury dates to the late 1790s, when Governor John Graves Simcoe named it in honour of his wife, whose maiden name was Gwillim. At the time, he was looking for an overland route from York (present-day Toronto) to Lake Huron which, in the event of war with the United States, would serve as an alternate to the easily interdicted Lake Ontario-Lake Erie route.
Yonge Street was the result. Its northern terminus was at Holland Landing, from which vessels traversed the Holland River and Lake Simcoe to Barrie, where roads completed the journey west. Until trains arrived at mid-century and supplanted water transport, this route was a major commercial artery and Holland Landing became the major port on Lake Simcoe.
The earliest settlers of East Gwillimbury were United Empire Loyalists and Quakers who were no longer welcome in the United States in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War. It was through their efforts that Mount Albert, Queensville, and Holland Landing were founded. Sharon (originally called Hope) is unique in that it was founded by an off-shoot sect of Quakers, known as the Children of Peace, whose influence remains highly visible thanks to the stunning Sharon Temple.
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