It all began as a pleasure excursion. The Sheriff of Simcoe County, Benjamin Walker Smith, had invited premier John A. Macdonald and members of his cabinet on a planned five-day outing to Sault Ste. Marie, aboard the steamer Ploughboy. The party left Toronto by train and headed to Collingwood, where they boarded the Ploughboy and…
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