WELCOME TO THE COMMUNITIES OF GEORGINA
The information on this website reflects what Georgina residents think is important about their neighbourhoods, what should be protected, and what should be enhanced. You are invited to explore this unique community of communities on the south shores of Lake Simcoe.
"The Georgina Book" -- Featured in the Toronto Star
The Georgina Book was featured in an article on Thursday November 11, 2010 in the Toronto Star. To read the story click the following link:
The Georgina Book in the Toronto Star"The Georgina Book" -- Hot off the Press
To purchase copies visit the following stores or click aofg.ca. (Apples of Gold in Jackson’s Point is selling books online.) Scroll down for more information.
Keswick:Georgina Chamber of Commerce, Georgina Advocate office on Simcoe Street & Keswick Public Library, Home HardwareCivic Centre:Georgina Pioneer Village
Jackson’s Point:Apples of Gold, Kat’s Gallery, The Briars Resort
Sutton:Georgina Arts Centre, South Paw Trading Post, Village Traditions, Turn the Page bookstore, Sutton Public Library, The Sutton General Store
Udora:Udora General Store
Pefferlaw:Pefferlaw Public Library, Shaw Pro Hardware, Peninsula Resort, Ena's Hair Salon
Baldwin:Cobblestones Country Shoppe, The Art Gallery
Newmarket:Starlight Books
About The Georgina Book -- published October 2010
The Georgina Book is the logical next step in the Community Mapping project of the Alliance for a Better Georgina. It reflects what people treasure most about Georgina’s diverse communities. It provides an overview of the Lake Simcoe region and the Town itself, and it gives young people a forum in their own chapter.
In the year 2000, the not-for-profit Alliance for a Better Georgina was formed to help make Georgina a great place to live and work. Its most ambitious project was the creation of poster-size maps showcasing the social, historic and environmental features of six of Georgina’s diverse communities.
It took dozens of community workshops to create those maps reflected on this website. In 2009, the “ Lakeshore” map received international attention as one of the exemplary maps of the world by the Environmental Systems Research Institute of California.
The ABG’s next step was to bring the maps together in this book, add information on Keswick, Sutton and Jackson’s Point through community forums, meeting with young people as well.
We hope this book helps strengthen environmental awareness, increases appreciation of local arts and culture, helps youth develop skills in green technologies, augments resources for Georgina businesses including agriculture and the tourism industry, promotes investment, and that everyone will enjoy learning from it. By gathering stories and information and assembling a unique record of Georgina’s assets, they hope to illuminate the vision of Georgina as a wonderful place to live and work.
Individual Map Purchase Information
Interested in purchasing Georgina community maps? Please call Karen Wolfe @ 705-437-1216.
If you would like technical information about these maps and the data provided on this web site please contact info@georginamaps.ca.
''What are the natural features which make a township handsome? a river, with its waterfalls and meadows, a lake, a hill, a cliff or individual rocks, a forest, and ancient trees standing singly. Such things are beautiful; they have a high use which dollars and cents never represent. If inhabitants of a town were wise, they would seek to preserve these things....for such things educate more than any hired teachers or preachers"....H.D. Thoreau. 1861.
