EUGENIA FALLS

NAME: EUGENIA FALLS COUNTY: ONTARIO ROADS: 2WD GRID: CLIMATE: Snow in winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: Spring summer or fall

COMMENTS: REMAINS: The most interesting portion of the village is Pellisier Street that leads to the waterfall. Now part of a conservation area, it contains some of the town’s original buildings.

Located in an area called the Bruce Peninsula, settlement began from the 1850s through the 1880s. Early visitors were awed by the sight of Eugenia Falls, calling it one of Canada’s most beautiful locations. The town was named after Princess Eugene, the wife of Emperor Napoleon. Its population grew to about 200. It had several mills, general stores, a carriage factory, blacksmiths, coopers, shoemakers, carpenters, a Presbyterian and Methodist church, and a school. The railways never came to Eugenia Falls and eventually the town began to decline. The mills, stores and shops closed down and people began to move away. But it never became a complete ghost town.

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