Gore Bay became a town on 7 April 1890, on Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Canada.

Small towns began to emerge from the wilderness, and hotels were developed to provide lodgings for prospective land purchasers.

Marie, Collingwood, and Owen Sound; establishing regular ports of call on Manitoulin Island, specifically Gore Bay, and prospering hotels due to increased traffic.

The new hotel industry in Gore Bay welcomed commercial travellers, fishermen, doctors, lumbermen and tourists.

[10] The amount of water surrounding Manitoulin district rules three main ways of accessing Gore Bay's township.