Office Location:

Planning Department
1st Floor, City Hall
808 2nd Avenue East
OWEN SOUND ON N4K 2H4

Phone: (519) 376-1440
Fax: (519) 371-0511

Email

Hours: Monday to Friday
           8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Interpretive Plaques

 

Inner Harbour Tour Plaques

1.  The Propeller Capital of Canada - East Inner Harbour
2.  The Crossing of the Bar - East Inner Harbour
3.  A Drowned Valley - East Inner Harbour
4.  The Renewal of a Port - East Inner Harbour
5.  The Hindman Transportation Company - West Inner Harbour
6.  The Gateway to the West - West Inner Harbour
7.  The Naming of the Bay - West Inner Harbour
8.  The Turkey Trail - West Inner Harbour

Local Heroes Plaques

9.  Agnes Campbell Macphail - City Hall, South End, Local Heroes Square
10.  Henry Norman Bethune - City Hall, South End, Local Heroes Square
11.  Billy Bishop - City Hall, South End, Local Heroes Square
12.  Thomas John Thomson - City Hall, South End, Local Heroes Square
13.  John "Daddy" Hall - City Hall, Front Entrance
14.  Tommy Holmes - City Hall, South End, Local Heroes Square
15.  Harry "Apple Cheeks" Lumley - Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre - South Entrance
16.  Major David Vivian Currie - Sidewalk pod on the west side of 2nd Avenue East midway between 7th & 8th Streets East (opposite of the Grey Granite Club).

Historic Owen Sound Plaques

17.  St. George's Anglican Church - Intersection of 10th Street & 4th Avenue East
18.  Church of the Nazarene - Intersection of 10th Street & 4th Avenue East
19.  First Baptist Church - Intersection of 10th Street & 4th Avenue East
20.  Division Street United Church - Intersection of 10th Street & 4th Avenue East
21.  Damnation Corners - Intersection of 10th Street East and 3rd Avenue East
22.  Centennial Tower - Centennial Tower, Highway 6 & 10
23.  The Sydenham River - On the Sydenham riverbank behind the YMCA
24.  Owen Sound: A Dreamcrafting Community - Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre - South Entrance
25.  One Weekend in April... - Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre - South Lobby
26.  Climbing the Ladder - Fish Style - Owen Sound Mill Dam & Fish Ladder
27.  Emancipation Day in Owen Sound - Harrison Park - Black History Cairn
28.  Black History Cairn - Harrison Park - Black History Cairn
29.  Black History Cairn - Quilt Blocks - Harrison Park - Black History Cairn
30.  Black Community of Owen Sound - Harrison Park - Black History Cairn
31.  The Kennedy Whistle - Marine & Rail Museum
32.  First United Church - 435 21st Street West
33.  Greenwood Cemetery - 190 1st Street SW
34.  The Chapel - 190 1st Street SW
35.  Owen Sound Collegiate & Vocational Institute - sidewalk on east side of 5th Avenue East just south of 10th Street East
36.  The Queen’s Hotel - sidewalk on east side of 3rd Avenue East just south of 8th Street East
37.  The Salvation Army - parking lot, west side of 3rd Avenue East just south of 10th Street East
38.  The Photomosaic Project - ScotiaBank Parkette, east side of 2nd Avenue East midway between 8th & 9th Streets East
39.  The Pharmacists - sidewalk on west side of 1st Avenue West just north of 10th Street West
40.  The Corbet Foundry - sidewalk on west side of 1st Avenue West north of 10th Street West
41.  The CPR Bridge - County Rail Trail south of Hwy 26, access south from 20th Street East, just east of Transcontinental Printing, or north from 8th Street East, just east of the Hospital
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