STIRLING FALLS

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

COMMENTS: REMAINS: Only a few posts that supported the sawmill mark the place where the mill once stood.

Stirling Falls was a mill site that began with the hope that the Northern and Pacific Junction Railway would lay its tracks nearby and open a station. A post office was opened in 1883 when the population stood at 50. At that time, the community had two stores, a small number of private homes as well as a bunkhouse for the mill hands. But the railway chose a different route and the future of Stirling Falls dimmed. Soon the mills shut down and the post office closed in 1919 and the residents relocated to either Burks Falls or Sundridge.

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