books.google.ca - The beginning of Owen Sound can be traced to the 1840 historical meeting, in a small forest clearing, between surveyor Charles Rankin and land agent John Telfer. Owen Sound: The Port City begins with the Native Peoples of the area and moves through pioneer settlement to the creation of a city in this...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Owen_Sound_the_Port_City.html?id=AP3QKfiKwugC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareOwen Sound : the Port City