This tour, titled 'Grimsby Forty Mile Creek Tour', is focused on the natural heritage locations that follow the Forty Mile Creek through the town of Grimsby within the Niagara Region. The Forty Mile Creek pours down from the top of the Escarpment and then winds its way through the town, which has grown around it and preserved some of the natural parks and paths alongside it. Historically, it was one of the main river in Grimsby, and it's the only one to run through town that originates much further up the Escarpment and makes it all the way to Lake Ontario.
This tour is here to showcase the historical value of smaller waterways in the Niagara region, as well as the local and modern value of the parks and trails that exist in connection with the creek. While it's important that historical locations are preserved for historical value, the everyday use of these places has important value as well, often to the locals to whom these places are important not just for their past significance, but as places of socialization and greenery tucked away between small town streets. The past influences the present, but this implies a degree of separation; rather, we cannot divide things and places in today's world into 'past' places and 'present' places, as they all exist and have current history today. This tour is designed to focus on a natural landmark that has a specific history within Grimsby and shaped both its pre-built and more modern growth, to see the town through the lens of the land its built upon and has relied upon for centuries of habitation.