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[[File:Cable Ferry from Wolfe Island to Simcoe Island.jpg|thumb|Cable ferry from Wolfe Island to Simcoe Island]]

'''Simcoe Island''' is a small island approximately ((convert|6|km|spell=in)) long, and ((convert|1.5|km|spell=in)) across at its widest point, in [[Lake Ontario]], just off [[Wolfe Island (Ontario)|Wolfe Island]], close to [[Kingston, Ontario]], and [[Amherst Island]].

The island is almost completely farmland and can be reached by ferry from Wolfe Island. Part of [[Frontenac County, Ontario|Frontenac County]], it forms the township of [[Frontenac Islands, Ontario]] with Wolfe Island and [[Howe Island]], together with smaller, privately owned islands, Garden Island and Horseshoe Island.

On 16 July 1792, scant months after the partition of Quebec into the provinces of [[Upper Canada]] and [[Lower Canada]], [[Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada]] [[John Graves Simcoe]] named the archipelago at the head of the [[St. Lawrence River]] for the victorious generals at the [[Battle of the Plains of Abraham]]: [[James Wolfe]], [[Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst|Jefferey Amherst]], [[William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe|William Howe]], [[Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester|Guy Carleton]] and [[Thomas Gage]].<ref>((cite book|last1=Thomson|first1=Hugh C.|last2=Macfarlane|first2=James|title=The Statutes of the Province of Upper Canada Together with such British Statutes, Ordinances of Quebec, and Proclamations as Related to the Said Province|date=1831|publisher=Francis M. Hill|location=Kingston, U.C.|pages=24-25|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fX5hAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA24|quote=an island at present known by the name of isle au Foret, to be called Gage island))</ref> The last is now known as Simcoe Island.

Although the island was originally named Isle de Foret ("Forest Island") by early [[French people|French]] settlers, most of the trees on the island have been removed for farming, with the exception of small isolated forests and trees. The name Gage Island was also used for a period of time.  The name Simcoe was given to the island in honour of [[John Graves Simcoe]].

The two main points of interest on the island are the [[cable ferry]], one of the smallest in Ontario (holding a maximum of 8 cars), and the [[Nine Mile Point Lighthouse]], accessible by the island's only main dirt road, Nine Mile Point Road, Built in 1833 by master stonemason Robert Matthews, the lighthouse is one of the earliest examples of an "Imperial" lighthouse in North America. In continuous operation since it was completed nearly two centuries ago, not only is the Nine Mile Point Lighthouse the oldest active Canadian lighthouse on the Great Lakes, it has the distinction of being one of the oldest active lighthouses in the entire Western Hemisphere.

For most of its nearly two centuries of service this lighthouse was operated and maintained by light keepers some of whose descendants still live on the island. The light was automated in 1987 and today, in addition to its role as an active lighthouse, it serves as a memorial to the many lives lost and ships sunk off its shores in the "Graveyard of Lake Ontario", including ''Comet'', a paddle steamer from the United States, ''Aloha'', a ((convert|171|ft|m|adj=on))-long vessel, and ''Effie Mae'', which collided with ''Aloha''.

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[[Category:Landforms of Frontenac County]]
[[Category:Islands of Lake Ontario in Ontario]]

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