Sibbald Point Provincial Park, Provincial park on Lake Simcoe in Sutton West, Ontario, Canada
Sibbald Point Provincial Park is a 225-hectare park on the shores of Lake Simcoe featuring sandy beaches and forested walking trails. The grounds include open grassy areas and diverse habitats for outdoor activities and wildlife watching.
Susan Sibbald bought the future Eildon Hall from Major William Kingdom Rains in 1835 and turned the cottage into a rural estate by the 1840s. Her family sold the land to the County of York in 1951; it opened as a county park, passed to the province in 1956 and reopened in 1957 as Sibbald Point Provincial Park.
Susan Sibbald bought the cottage in 1835 and had it rebuilt as a rural estate by the 1840s, naming it Eildon Hall after the family's Scottish property. The house is now the Sibbald Memorial Museum, furnished to show mid-nineteenth-century rural Ontario life, and an Ontario Historical Plaque stands in its honour.
The park offers campsites with and without electrical hookups, along with a boat launch for year-round access. Visitors should prepare for varying seasonal conditions, particularly when swimming in the lake.
St. George's Anglican Church, next to the park, was completed in 1877, built by Susan Sibbald's sons as a memorial to her. Its small cemetery holds the graves of writers Stephen Leacock and Mazo de la Roche, along with musician Jim Schwalm and many other prominent citizens of the Lake Simcoe area.
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