Fellow Rotarian, Alasoba Kelsy Vraide shares with club members, stories of the first black settlers in the Orillia/Oro-Medonte areas.
The Oro-Medonte/Orillia area was the northern most tip of the Underground Railroad used by black families escaping slavery in the southern U.S. It was not even a railroad at all actually but a detailed trail of safe houses stretching from the southern U.S up into Canada.