Nine Mile

noun, in full ‘Nine Mile Point’, the eastern tip of Simcoe Island (view location); also referred to as ‘the Point’; see also Nine Mile (lighthouse)

“Up on Nine Mile on the south corner was all hedge.”

“See, the lighthouse, power didn’t go to the lighthouse ’til 1955, before there was hydro up at Nine Mile. So you didn’t have the convenience. We have them old coal oil lamps, and you’d just sit them on the corner of the table.”

“He bought that house out there. Remember it? So really all he did was come and go from up at Nine Mile. And in nineteen — what year? Yeah, 1961 we tore the old house down.”

“You gotta have licenses… I think originally they could fish down as far as Snake, then they moved them up — gotta be above Nine Mile.”

“He used to have his ranges. We called them ‘ranges’ back in those days. So when you stood at Nine Mile, up at the lighthouse, and you looked towards Kingston, they used to be Snake Island and the nylon plant.”

“Yeah, there was quite a few changes in those days. It was tough … You’d use a team and wagon most of the time to get up there. Like in the spring of the year, you couldn’t get up the road. She was tough going, used to walk a lot at times, eh. And used the boat a lot, but trying to get in up at Nine Mile, there was always the sea running, eh.”