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History of Parry Sound
Parry Sound, the largest natural harbour on Georgian Bay, was named by "Captain Henry Bayfield" after Sir William Edward Parry, the Arctic explorer. Bayfield surveyed the 30,000 islands in the early 19th Century.
William Gibson built a sawmill at the mouth of the Seguin River in 1857. He sold the mill in 1865 to "William Beatty", who along with his sons William, Jr. and James, established the Town of Parry Sound.
The Beatty's established a "general store", built the first (Methodist) Church and established a "steamship line" linking Parry Sound to Midland and Collingwood.
