Manitoulin Island is about an hour away from Sudbury. On my visit to the island, I used highway six to visit South Baymouth where there are ferries to Tobermory and Gore Bay on the north side of the island.
Assiginack Museum 
Assiginack Museum
First Nations believed this place to be the home of the Great Spirit, the name Manitowaning means the den of the Great Spirit. In 1836, a treaty was signed between Upper Canada, the Ojbwa, and the Odawa people. The Europeans hoped that native people would take up farming on the island instead of hunting on the mainland, but very few of them did.
As white people encroached on the area, they wanted access to the island that was originally reserved for natives. Most of the island was reluctantly relinquished to the Crown in 1862, but the people in Manitowaning refused to sign the treaty.
St. Paul’s Church 
Lighthouse
St. Paul’s Anglican Church was built by native people in 1849, and is the oldest church in the Manitoulin-Algoma area. In addition to the church, houses, schools, and trade workshops were built in the settlement. Just opposite the church stands a lighthouse built in 1885. The light could be seen for over 20 kilometres.
SS Norisle, the first car ferry here
During the early 1900s, two steamers docked at Manitowaning on Wednesdays to unload passengers and cargo. The captains of the vessels would race each other to Ten Mile Point, making the air very sooty. Residents avoided doing laundry on Wednesdays.
