
Local history · 2001 · Penetanguishene Centennial Museum
Kitche-uwa’ne’: A Legend
Many hundred of years ago on the shores o Georgian Bay, the Bear Tribe from the Huron village of Toanche on Penetanguishene Bay, found a baby the size of a man and raised him as their own. He grew to become a great giant named Kitche-uwa'ne'. His amazing story of kinship, love, rejection, betrayal yet ultimate forgiveness would culminate into the Giant's creation of the five bays of the Severn Sound, Georgian Bay's thirty-thousand islands and the Giant's Tomb - which can still be seen today! Thus, he would become the greatest of Hurons and a true Georgian Bay legend.
This magical, timeless Huron myth is brought exquisitely to life in words and illustrations for the first time. It is a wondrous story the whole family will be able to enjoy time and again, and one you will not soon forget...