Parry Sound — Muskoka, on

Nobel was home to a dynamite factory during the First World War.

The area was largely settled in 1868 following the Free Land Grand and Homestead Act. Each immigrant family was granted 200 acres of land, and would later be able to own the land under the conditions that they clear 15 acres of it, build a house, and live on the land a minimum six months per year for five years.