About the Village
At the request of the Georgina Historical Society, the Town of Georgina passed a resolution in 1974 setting
aside ten acres of land as the permanent site for what would become the Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives.
Officially inaugurated by Chief of the Chippewas of Georgina Island, Lorenzo Big Canoe, on Thanksgiving Day,
1975, the Village opened with two buildings: a backwoods log house constructed circa 1870, and a Free
Methodist Church built in 1889. A succession of buildings has been moved to the Pioneer Village between the
late 1970s and 1999.
Located near the south shore of beautiful Lake Simcoe, this ten-acre site is now home to sixteen structures
that interpret the rich history of Georgina between 1850 and 1920, including a one-room schoolhouse, a
general store, a train station, a blacksmith shop, an apothecary, among other significant historic structures.