Impetus to the road really picked up with the War of 1812 and the fall of Detroit. With supplies cit, Fort Michilmackinac began to starve. Gordon Drummond saw the urgency of building the new road.
The planned road would be 30 miles long and it was estimated that it would take 200 men at least three weeks to build it.
In December 1814, William Dunlop was pl;aced in charge of the project. When finished, it was not much of a road by today's standards. It was uneven, stump-ridden and essentially impassable in heavy rain.
Even so, this road which was originally built for military purposes, promoted settlement in Huronia.
On the Lake Simcoe end of it, a village originally named Kempenfelt (now northeast Barrie) began in 1819.
The Story of a Road. --Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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