Champlain

First White Man in Carden

Champlain visited the “Carden car wash”. Champlain was the first white man to visit Carden”. His diary says the Huron Indians took him to visit a place where a river disappeared underground (The Carden Car Wash). This was 1612?? when the Hurons were traveling down to New York state. They crossed Lake Simcoe,(from Caliqueway-at Warminister) portaged to Balsam Lake and down the Trent system ,crossing Lake Ontario to invade the Iroquois

Note: Carden Car Wash is situated on Lot2 Con 8 and is PRIVATE PROPERTY