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A little bit of the history…
Heritage Hill Organics is located in the rolling hills of Oro-Medonte on a property originally deeded to an ex-British Military officer Charles Stanley Monck, of Her Majesty's 44th Reg't of Foot.
According to local records, Mr. Monck was Lieutenant in the 44th Regiment in the Peninsular war. He was at the capture of Washington (where the British burned the White House – it got its name after being painted over after the raid), and the Battle of Bladensburg, in 1814. He was Lieut-Colonel of the North Simcoe Militia, and for many years Magistrate and Commissioner of the Court of Requests in Simcoe County and one of Barrie's first Justices of the Peace in 1831.
1800s log cabin
An 1800s log cabin still sits on the property, which is rich with local history, including the finding of a 1,200-1,400 A.D. Iroquoian arrowhead on the property last summer, probably lost during a hunting expedition.
Arrowhead 500-700 years old
Monck was cousin to his more famous name sake Charles Stanley Monck, Governor-in-Chief of the Canadian provinces from 1861. Lord Monck presided with distinction over confederation and became first Governor-General of Canada 1867-68.
When Lord Monck was our Governor-General he acknowledged the relationship and wrote to his cousins, inviting them to visit him at Ottawa. With the death of Monck, at aged 87, Simcoe County lost the last of the half-pay officers who were among the first settlers in this Township and in Oro, and he was the very last of the Peninsular pensioners of the 44th.
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