Town of Craigleith, Ontario - Photo Craigleith Community Centre Craigleith, Ontario - On the shore of Georgian Bay,the name comes from the Gaelic (rocky bay), probably bestowed by an early settler of the family of Sir Sandford Fleming. William Pollard developed a shale oil extraction works in the mid 1850s, the steamer Mary Ward sank on shoals nearby just west of the slopes of the Blue Mountains. Barrie to Owen Sound