Ontario Visual Heritage Project

For hundreds of years it has been Lake Erie and the sandy soils along its shores that have attracted civilization to Norfolk. A diverse landscape, the area is filled with stories of ingenuity, witch craft, shipwrecks and rum running. You will find a few of them there.

May 2nd 2004
Welcome to the Ontario Visual Heritage Project: Norfolk web site! Please feel free to add comments to any of the stories you see here, add your own stories, or ask a historian a question. Your feeback is welcome, please contact us at mail@visualheritage.ca with any comments, suggestions or questions.

In November of 1922, the “Whisky Ship” City of Dresden began to break up near Port Rowan.