CROWN HILL, ONTARIO

'Crown Hill' is a community in Simcoe County in the Canadian province of Ontario. The community is located at the municipal boundaries of Springwater and Oro-Medonte, just outside the northern city limits of Barrie.
Prior to the provincial highway downloadings of 1997, Highway 11 left its expressway route through Oro-Medonte at Crown Hill, transferring onto Penetanguishene Road for the remainder of its southerly route into Barrie and Toronto. Highway 11 now continues past the Penetanguishene Road interchange along the former route of Highway 400A, ending at Highway 400 1.1 kilometres further southwest.
Ernest Charles Drury, Premier of Ontario from 1919 to 1923, was born at Crown Hill.