Sibbald Point Provincial Park

Sibbald Point Provincial Park is a provincial park placed in Sutton West, Ontario, Canada on the southern shorelines of Lake Simcoe, 70 kilometres north of Toronto. The park is placed to the east of the vacation town of Jackson's Point, and The Briars Resort and Country Club which was nonetheless owned by way of the Sibbald family till it become offered in 2017. Sibbald Point Provincial Park has lengthy sand beaches, sunny and shaded campsites, huge grassy picnic areas and a forested trekking trail. The Sibbald circle of relatives bought the assets in 1951 to the County of York and it was open as a County Park till 1956 when the County conveyed it to the Province.

The property become then renamed as Sibbald Point Provincial Park and opened in 1957. Two of the essential points of interest inside the park had been built with the aid of the Sibbald circle of relatives during the nineteenth century. The own family domestic was bought by way of Susan Sibbald from Major William Kingdom Rains in 1835. She supervised its transformation from a small cottage into a rural estate, a technique which turned into completed inside the 1840s. She named the shape Eildon Hall after the own family property in Scotland. Today the constructing serves as a museum committed to lifestyles in rural Ontario at some point of the mid-nineteenth century. The museum is likewise called the Sibbald Memorial Museum . An Ontario Historical Plaque became erected by means of the province to commemorate Eildon Hall's function in Ontario's history.