Welcome Cuda 70 from Eastern Ontario.
If you like relics and want to hunt homesteads you should become familiar with the McGill Digital Mapping system. It's digital version of the historical atlas that were sold door to door in the
late 1800's early 1900's.
It can be downloaded free.
The reprinted versions go for $80.00-$100.00 an atlas in a store
https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/searchmapframes.php
For your area click on map #21
https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/searchmapframes.php
Then say the Township of Oro
https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/Images/Maps/TownshipMaps/sim-m-oro.jpg
Use Google Earth as a reference map and then start mapping out a old homestead.
Start point. Find a church/cemetery on the old map/then look for the same location on Google earth.
Once you establish a point of reference then you'll know which road system you are looking at on the map.
Pick a homestead-look at GE and see if it's there.
I prefer the ones that are gone, just bush or fields today.
Then go for a drive-find the location-then find the owner of the property-and get permission to hunt the land.
The old maps are pretty accurate and over time your mapping skills will improve to the point where you can walk out in the field and you're on the site.
Just a little helper, as the beaches in your area area hunted hard and my buddy was doing them 40+ yrs ago.
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