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Turkey Point is located on about three kilometres of sandy beach
along the north shore of Lake
Erie in
the Township of Delhi. John Graves Simcoe named Turkey Point
while travelling
through the area in 1795 because of the abundance
of wild turkeys. It became the capital of the London
District.
The Courthouse was built
and remained there until
1815 when it was moved to
Vittoria. In 1959, the Turkey Point Provincial
Park was established
to help preserve the natural beauty of the area. After
years
of hunting, the abundance of wild turkey that John Graves Simcoe had
once seen began to disappear. Between 1984 and 1987, 276 turkeys
were brought
from the United States and released in Ontario in
an effort to re-populate
the birds.
