700 BC - 800 AD Middle Woodland native settlement of area

14th century - Port Elgin - Iroquois (Ojibway), trading post population: 500

1610 - Ontario explored.

1619 - Samuel de Champlain visited settlement that would later become Owen Sound
Jesuit missionaries visit area that would later become Southampton.

1641 - Ontario first named.

1793 - York, Ontario founded.

1812 - Southampton trading post created by French fur traders.

Mid 1800s - Methodist missionaries visit area of Southampton.

1840 - first settlers to Inverhuron area, settlement established 1851.

1848 - Kincardine founded.

1848 - Southampton founded.

1849 - first settlers to Port Elgin area.

1850 - Tiverton settled (founded in 1860).

1851 - Inverhuron - stores and post office opened.

1851 - Paisley founded.

1857 - Owen Sound founded.

1857 - Port Elgin founded.

1857 - Allenford founded.

1860 - Inverhuron - lime kilns, mills and blacksmith shop built.

1870s - Inverhuron - three grain warehouses built.

1882 - Inverhuron - warehouse and pier destroyed by fire.

1887 - Inverhuron - settlement destroyed by arson fire.

1956 - Inverhuron Provincial Park created and opened to public.

1960 (to 1987) - Bruce Nuclear Power Development constructed.