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'''Grand Bend''' is a community located on the shores of [[Lake Huron]] in [[Southwestern Ontario]], Canada. It is part of the [[Lambton Shores|Municipality of Lambton Shores]] in [[Lambton County]].

== History ==
In the 1830s a group of English and [[Scottish people|Scottish settlers]] bought lots from the [[Canada Company]], a land development firm. One of the original settlers, Benjamin Brewster gave his name to the village, Brewster's Mills, after he and his business partner David Smart secured rights to dam the [[Ausable River (Lake Huron)|Ausable River]] and started a sawmill in 1832. The villagers were mainly the families of the millhands and fishermen. Their homesteads were situated on the south side of the present village, but Grand Bend was originally founded and discovered by Frank Salter, who was a very well-known Lake resort owner and country club developer.

For twenty years Brewster existed as an isolated lumbering community. Until the opening of the highway to [[Goderich, Ontario|Goderich]] in 1850, both people and provisions had to travel by water. Once road connections were complete, the village was no longer solely dependent on the forests for its livelihood and opportunities for new businesses emerged.

Typical of many pioneer communities, the village assumed many different names throughout its history&mdash; Brewster's Mills, Websterville, and Sommerville are all recorded. Early [[French Canadian]] settlers in the area referred to the present location of the village as "Aux Crochet", 'at the bends'.<ref>Rayburn, Alan (1997), ''Place Names of Ontario'' (University of Toronto Press), Toronto-Buffalo-London, ((ISBN|0-8020-7207-0))), pp.140-141</ref> Grand Bend survived as a name, perhaps because it was the most appropriate&mdash; the tight hairpin turn in the original Ausable River where mills were first established.

==Land ownership controversies==
===''Noble v Alley''===
Improved roads and the arrival of the automobile near the turn of the century had the greatest influence on the growth of Grand Bend. Businesses were established to serve visitors and travellers along the highway, and with the beach, "The Bend" became a summer destination. In the 1940s, however, Grand Bend became the centre of a major controversy in the landmark court case of ''[[Noble v Alley]]''. Wolf, a London, Ontario merchant, faced court challenges when he purchased property at Beach O'Pines in contravention of a restrictive covenant that prohibited the ownership of lots or cottages by persons of "Jewish, Hebrew, Semitic, Negro or coloured race or blood". The case was finally heard by the Supreme Court of Canada<ref>((Cite CanLII|litigants=Noble v Alley|link=Noble v Alley|year=1950|court=scc|format=canlii|num=13|parallelcite=[1951] SCR 64; [1951] 1 DLR 321|date=1950-11-20))</ref> which ruled that the restrictive covenant as constituted was invalid.<ref>((cite book |last= Bushnell|first= Ian|date= 1992|title= The Captive Court: A Study of the Supreme Court of Canada|location= Montreal|publisher= [[McGill-Queens University Press]]|page= 302|isbn= 0-7735-0851-1)); ((cite book |last= Walker|first= James W. St. G.|author-link=James W. St. G. Walker|date= 1997|title= 'Race,' rights and the law in the Supreme Court of Canada|location= Waterloo|publisher= [[Wilfrid Laurier University Press]]|pages= 182–245|isbn= 0-88920-289-3))</ref><ref>''Globe and Mail'' 13 June 1949, p. 5</ref>

===''Gibbs v Grand Bend''===
In the late 1980s, a landowner went to the [[Supreme Court of Ontario]] seeking a [[declaration (law)|declaration]] that he was the successor in title to the entire north beach of Grand Bend, amounting to ((convert|1.78|ha|acre)), by virtue of a land grant given to the [[Canada Company]] in 1836. Although successful at trial in 1989,<ref>((cite CanLII|litigants=Gibbs v. Grand Bend (Village)|link=|year=1989|court=onsc|num=4247|format=canlii|pinpoint=|parallelcite=71 OR (2d) 70; 64 DLR (4th) 28|date=1989-12-20|courtname=auto))</ref> it was overturned at the [[Ontario Court of Appeal]] in 1995,<ref>((cite CanLII|litigants=Gibbs v. Grand Bend (Village)|link=|year=1995|court=ONCA|num=10662|format=canlii|pinpoint=|parallelcite=26 OR (3d) 644|date=1995-12-05|courtname=auto))</ref> which held that, while the beach did not constitute lands reserved to the Crown, the owners had lost ownership to it over the years because of [[implied dedication]] and acceptance for public recreational use.<ref>((cite news |last= Stewart|first= R.J.|date= Fall 1999|title= Water Boundaries in Southern Ontario|url= https://www.krcmar.ca/resource-articles/1999_Fall_Water%20Boundaries%20in%20Southern%20Ontario_1.pdf|work= The Ontario Land Surveyor Quarterly |pages=20–21))</ref> As he was required to give the public access to the beach, he subsequently charged parking fees to the visitors and personally cleaned up the beach every night. In 1998 he reached agreement with the province and the village of Grand Bend to sell the property.<ref name="LA2013">((cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title= Grand Bend beach fighter dies at 81|url= https://www.lakeshoreadvance.com/2013/09/11/grand-bend-beach-fighter-dies-at-81/wcm/c0d14ca6-37fa-02cb-e832-bb16d08acfb4|work= Lakeshore Advance|date= September 11, 2013))</ref> There was a separate continuing ownership dispute relating to the harbour at the mouth of the [[Ausable River (Lake Huron)|Ausable River]].<ref name="LA2013"/>

[[File:12 Main Street, Grand Bend.JPG|thumb|right|Main Street in Grand Bend]]
[[File:Grand Bend, Ontario, Canada - 1951.jpg|thumb|right|A couple outside on the Lake Huron surf at Grand Bend, July 1951]]

==Present day==
Grand Bend is home to a variety of stores and eateries. The main strip is the centre of activity in the town, with shopping during the day and night life venues during the evening drawing crowds. The atmosphere of Grand Bend has given the town a reputation of being Florida north. As well as Main Street, Grand Bend acts as a regional cultural centre, boasting [[Art gallery|art galleries]] in the town and the Huron Country Playhouse on the outskirts.

The 2021 population of Grand Bend was 3,031.<ref>((Cite web |last=Government of Canada |first=Statistics Canada |date=2022-02-09 |title=Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Grand Bend [Population centre], Ontario |url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&SearchText=Grand%20Bend&DGUIDlist=2021S05101297&GENDERlist=1,2,3&STATISTIClist=1,4&HEADERlist=0 |access-date=2023-05-22 |website=www12.statcan.gc.ca))</ref>  This increases to about 50,000 in the summer months on holiday weekends.((cn|date=May 2023)) The demographic population of Grand Bend is quite diverse. Families owning vacation homes in the adjacent communities of Oakwood Park, Southcott Pines and [[Beach O' Pines]], are from Ontario, Michigan and as far as [[New York (state)|New York]], [[Florida]], [[Texas]] and the American west coast. Among these are the [[Romney family]].<ref>((cite news |last=Humphreys |first=Adrian |date= November 3, 2012|title= Mitt Romney’s Canadian ‘white house’: Family has vacationed at cottage in private, gated Ontario community for 60 years|url= http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/11/03/mitt-romneys-canadian-white-house-family-has-vacationed-at-cottage-in-private-gated-ontario-community-for-60-years/|newspaper= [[National Post]]|location= [[Toronto]]|publisher= [[Doug Kelly (journalist)|Doug Kelly]]|access-date= July 7, 2014))</ref>

The town as well serves as the backdrop of the docu-drama [[MTV]] Show ''Grand Benders'', filmed from 2011 to the present and produced by MDF Productions.

The [[Pinery Provincial Park]] and the Lambton Heritage Museum are located seven kilometres south of Grand Bend. Also, in the vicinity one can explore a number of 'Gems of Nature' accessible by marked and maintained hiking trails.

[[Grand Bend Motorplex]] has a dragstrip that hosts an [[International Hot Rod Association]] race and the IHRA Canadian Nationals, Canada's longest running and largest drag race.

==See also==
* [[Bosanquet, Ontario]]
* [[Forest, Lambton County, Ontario]]
* [[Lambton County]]
* [[Lambton Shores, Ontario]]
* [[Port Franks, Ontario]]

==References==
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==External links==
* ((url|http://grandbend.com))

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[[Category:Populated places on Lake Huron in Canada]]
[[Category:Communities in Lambton County]]
[[Category:Former villages in Ontario]]

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