Been a year since I stayed in Barrie but there was a British Goods store in in the plaza with the MTO License Office on Yonge near Huronia. There also was a Hungarian Restaurant across the road, excellent food by the way.

As for the population, of course it was mostly all native born Canadians until the early 90’s (white trash as you may call us :-) ) when it started growing like a bat out of hell. There are all ethnic groups in Barrie now, anyone who wanted to get out of Toronto and “live in a better environment for their children”.