Simcoe
A lake situated between Lake Ontario and Georgian Bay; named
after Governor Simcoe's father. It was discovered by Champlain in 1615,
and was within the field of the famous Huron Mission of the Jesuit
fathers. La Salle crossed the lake in 1680, on his way west to the
Mississippi; and the following year dated one of his letters from the
long portage between Toronto and Simcoe. =Index=: (John Graves Simcoe era) Formerly Lac aux
Claies, 207; present name given by Simcoe, 207.