Kilsyth is an unincorporated community in rural Georgian Bluffs Township, Ontario, Canada with an approximate population of 100 people.
The K-8 Derby Public School serving pupils from the town and the surrounding district closed in June 2016.
At Kilsyth they embarked onto a horse drawn barge on the Forth and Clyde canal, built just eleven years earlier.
Kilsyth was the early village of importance in Derby, situated near the center of the township on the Owen Sound and Saugeen Stage Road.
Among the early business men were, Thomas Sloan-merchant and postmaster; William Fleming-merchant; George Smith-keeper of the "Sloan Hotel" Kilsyth still cherishes its Scottish roots.