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