Michael's Bay

Michael's Bay was a small lumbering town built on the former site of an Odawa native settlement that dated back to around 1600. The town got its start in after Robert A. Lyon and Associates of Toronto were granted a timber licence covering a 22 square mile limit in Tehkumah township.

In 1866, the granting of the islands' first timber licence was controversial partly due to lack of surveys and partly because of political boosting. One associate, D. Lyon of Milton, Ontario, who also happened to be Robert Lyon's brother, spent two years at Michael's Bay overseeing the mill's start up in 1862.