About Simcoe County

• It's no wonder that Simcoe County ranks in fifth place as the most desirable municipality in Canada in which to live. The County's convenient and beautiful location between Toronto on the south and Canadian Shield cottage country on the north, has something to do with the desirablility of living here. Its western border is the sandy and rocky shore of Georgian Bay, and its eastern border is the rural shore of Lake Simcoe.
  
  A half-hour drive from Toronto delivers you to the County's southern border and a 474,242 hectare (1,830 square mile) area of two cities, seven towns and nine townships, rolling farmland and ski hills, historic sites and the energy of more than 330,000 people.