Earl Rowe served as the 20th Lieutenant of Ontario from 1963 to 1968.

The park, near Alliston consists of a river:

which has been dammed to create a pond and a beach:

and a large meadow habitat which has many hiking trails:

Some of this is perfect for the somewhat rare Clay-coloured Sparrow:

Other birds:

Some botany:

Thomas Gordon, the first postmaster, named this community supposedly after his father’s hometown in England. It may instead have been named for a farm or home, because no Everett is shown on modern maps of Britain.

NATURE POETRY

I think if you listen closely
In the sweet, glad days of spring,
With the song of the brook,
the breeze and the birds,
You can hear the flowers sing.    – Helen Isabel Moorhouse (b.1876)

Miles Hearn