Renfrew South District Women's Institute: Sharing Heritage Book, May 2005, p. 17

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Sharing Our Heritage wooded islands,...this presumably the Chenauxtnhen, “at the end ofthis tract Bissett’s ‘clmnticr‘, :1 solitary, log-house with a few cleared acres, relieves the eye after the monotony of the vast solitudes; it affords also a welcome asylum to the fur and timer traders.” By the time the first census was taken in 1842, no record of either Bulless or Bissett appeared, Quinn’s map of 1825 shows that Bulless Point is the exact location ofwhat later became known as Bonnechere Point. Bissett’s Point later became the location of the CC. Johnston stone house, later owned by Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Scharfe, and presently owned by Mr. and Mrs. John Purdon (2006).........Owcn Quinn. Renfrew South District Women’s Institute Page 17 of27

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