Welcome to Allenford! This small community is a great example of most small villages or towns in southern Ontario. From the first pioneers that settled on Indigenous lands, to those who created a small self-sufficient community to its more recent purpose of a bedroom community, Allenford has evolved. Its first name of Driftwood Crossing from the local Native residents was a great name because it really offered the geographical significance of this place for a a group of people that needed to cross this river to move from one seasonal hunting area to another. In this area was a fordable point to make the annual trek from the shores of Huron to the shores of Georgian Bay for the local Indigeous peoples and it was a place of one of the last PowWow’s in our area.
So welcome to my home village. I’d like to give you a little tour.
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