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Sir Peregrine Maitland

lieutenant governor of Canada

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significance in history of Orillia

  • Orillia: Stephen Leacock Museum
    In Orillia

    …or “bank”), was suggested by Sir Peregrine Maitland, lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (1818–28), who had served in Spain. The town site was surveyed in 1839, a few years after an earlier settlement called The Narrows had been established. Orillia Corporation built the first municipally owned hydroelectric plant in Canada…

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