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Last Updated: Jun 1, 2021 | 12:20 PM (Photo from Huron-Kinloss Municipal website.) An archaeological investigation has been launched in Huron-Kinloss after parts of a 19th century shipwreck washed up on Point Clark Beach. On May 25, a notice was sent to the township about the shipwreck. The Ontario Marine Heritage Committee and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry subsequently launched investigations to gain further information about the wreck. Marine Archeologist Scarlett Januses is investigating wreckage and says she has found various pieces along the shoreline, but notes of one p...

An archeological investigation is underway in southern Bruce County after shipwreck remnants – identified as belonging to the 19th-century schooner Homer H.…

An archeological investigation is underway in southern Bruce County after shipwreck remnants – identified as belonging to the 19th-century schooner Homer H.…

  POINT CLARK, ONT. -- Carol Phillips and Judy Parker were just walking along the shores of Point Clark, Ont. a few weeks ago, when they came across something poking out of the water’s edge. “Judy and I were quite interested in it because it had all these weird nails sticking out of it. A big piece of wood, and that’s when we got really curious about what it could possibly be,” says Phillips, who lives in Wingham. Unbeknownst to Phillips and Parker, Scott and Amy O’Brien had also been finding strange pieces of old wood washing ashore this spring.