Learn a little of Toronto's history as told through its plaques.

Étienne Brûlé

Photos by Alan L Brown - July 2007

See the stone column with the lamp on top in the centre of this photo? You'll find it in front of the Old Mill Inn at 45 Old Mill Road directly across the street from the parking lot entrance. Attached to the east side of the column is a plaque. Here's what it says:

Born in France in 1595, arrived in Quebec in 1608. With a genius for exploration, Brûlé, from Lake Huron, thence to Lake Simcoe and southward made the Humber his route to Lake Ontario in 1615. This tablet commemorates his journey of discovery by the pathway of the Humber, and honors the name of Étienne Brûlé, the first white man to see Lake Ontario.

Plaque Location Co-ordinates: 43.651091 -79.493476

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