Snapshot
There is only one Niagara Escarpment. It’s our wild place here in Southern Georgian Bay.
We are very close to losing 1,532 acres of pristine Escarpment to the massive new Castle Glen development, right above Collingwood, and another 133 acres of treasured greenspace at Talisman in the Beaver Valley. Sure, developers can make another billion dollars, but we all lose those pieces of pristine nature. They are severed forever.
Join the once-in-a-lifetime fight to stop the Castle Glen mega-development and other inappropriate development on the Niagara Escarpment of Southern Georgian Bay.
Please donate today and help Small Change Fund, in partnership with Escarpment Corridor Alliance, keep our Escarpment wild.
A 50 Year Old Planning Mistake is About to Destroy The Niagara Escarpment

Story
There is only one Niagara Escarpment. It’s one of Canada’s natural wonders and it is recognised globally as a UNESCO biosphere.
It’s our wild place here in Southern Georgian Bay and we need your help and donations to save it.
The Niagara Escarpment is our natural corridor. It’s home to old-growth trees, the headwaters of our rivers, ancient rocks, and countless rare flora and fauna. It’s our source of well-being and our escape to nature. It’s a rare gem and it’s our responsibility to protect it.
But, legacy planning decisions, some five decades old, are now a massive threat to this 450-million-year-old “masterpiece of living art”.
And no threat is bigger than the proposed new Castle Glen Development in the Blue Mountains.
If completed, the development will:
- Ruin the largest undeveloped property on the brow of the escarpment in the entire Collingwood / Blue Mountains area;
- Destroy vast amounts of forest and ecologically sensitive land across 1,532 acres;
- Build 1,600 homes, 2 hotels, 3 golf courses, kilometers of paved roads and hardscaping; and
- Devastate the essence of the escarpment with 54,000 sq. ft. of retail commercial space and a gas station – right on the Bruce Trail!
Our wild escarpment spaces will be replaced by a brand new mega-development larger than the town of Thornbury … a mega-development larger than any other in the history of the Niagara Escarpment Commission.
Great Gulf Homes, one of North America’s largest developers, acquired the Castle Glen property in April 2021 and inherited great-great-grandfathered approvals dating back to 1971 – over 50 years ago! Everyone knows that these approvals would never be granted today, so why are our local and provincial governments letting this happen? Our elected officials cannot allow our most sensitive natural spaces to be destroyed for corporate profits!
Castle Glen is the epitome of short-sighted, inappropriate development. It should be our newest Provincial Park, not a mega-development perched on the brow of the beautiful Niagara Escarpment. To learn more about the proposed Castle Glen development please listen to the CBC Ontario Morning feature interview and watch a recent deputation made to the Blue Mountains council.
Please support our fight to save Castle Glen.
Other glaring examples of tragic planning mistakes across the Escarpment of Southern Georgian Bay include the development of the Talisman lands and the Silver Creek Wetlands. And, as the second fastest growing area in Canada, development pressures across the region are only increasing. We need to stand up and say “enough” and we need to do so with urgency.
We are asking our governments to work with us and save, not just Castle Glen, but create a fully protected land and park system that stretches from Devil’s Glen to Georgian Peaks, from Castle Glen through Duncan and Kolapore and up and down the Beaver Valley. Protected. Deeded. Not subject to a Planning Act that could be rescinded at any time with a stroke of the pen.

Where it all started.
Please help us keep our wild spaces on the Niagara Escarpment.
Please donate today!
This Small Change Fund project is in partnership with the Escarpment Corridor Alliance.
Name | Donation | Date |
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J. Michael Robbins & Associates Inc. | $5,000 | May 23, 2023 3:48 pm |
Bruce Harbinson | $5,000 | May 23, 2023 3:40 pm |
Robert G. Parney | $250 | May 16, 2023 8:49 pm |
Georgia Jacobi | $50 | May 16, 2023 2:31 pm |
Brett Sura | $50 | May 8, 2023 6:49 pm |
Juliet Jancsi | $100 | May 7, 2023 6:38 pm |
Anonymous | $250 | May 7, 2023 5:25 pm |
Anonymous | $50 | May 5, 2023 11:48 pm |
Sharman Smith | $50 | May 5, 2023 7:07 pm |
Anonymous | $1,000 | May 5, 2023 6:47 pm |
Liz Ord | $255 | May 1, 2023 9:19 pm |
Julia McCarthy | $111 | April 29, 2023 1:38 pm |
Jarvis Strong | $55 | April 27, 2023 3:53 pm |
Becky Channer | $50 | April 21, 2023 1:52 pm |
Anonymous | $275 | April 21, 2023 1:32 pm |
David Kinoshita | $250 | April 6, 2023 2:19 pm |
Karen Chorny | $50 | March 29, 2023 12:58 pm |
Sean Russell | $50 | March 10, 2023 9:59 pm |
Anne Redston | $55 | March 10, 2023 8:29 pm |
Kara McIntosh | $1,000 | February 15, 2023 1:32 pm |
Lorna Visser | $100 | February 12, 2023 10:09 pm |
Andrea LaFayette | $1,005 | February 9, 2023 1:36 pm |
Jeanne Bullock | $105 | February 1, 2023 2:29 pm |
Suzanne Rawn | $65 | January 19, 2023 2:32 pm |
Drew Hubbard | $250 | January 12, 2023 8:26 pm |
Ian Rhind | $250 | January 11, 2023 2:59 am |
Judy Jarvis | $500 | January 10, 2023 1:51 am |
Thomas A. & Nancy G. Eisenhauer | $10,000 | January 3, 2023 3:20 pm |
M Benjamin Polley | $525 | December 31, 2022 11:54 pm |
Anonymous | $200 | December 31, 2022 8:58 pm |
Jeremy Wentworth-Stanley | $200 | December 31, 2022 7:00 pm |
Pinky Franklin | $255 | December 30, 2022 9:59 pm |
Anonymous | $25 | December 30, 2022 4:45 pm |
Anonymous | $2,000 | December 28, 2022 3:12 pm |
Penelope Bell | $525 | December 27, 2022 6:17 pm |
Laura Travosi | $50 | December 26, 2022 8:53 pm |
Chisholm Thomson Family Foundation | $5,000 | December 23, 2022 3:36 pm |
Linda Pim | $55 | December 23, 2022 3:06 pm |
Robert & Kate L. Gorrie | $2,000 | December 22, 2022 9:36 pm |
Anonymous | $15,000 | December 22, 2022 8:50 pm |
JP McMorrow | $250 | December 22, 2022 3:28 pm |
Chris Mifflin | $100 | December 22, 2022 3:13 pm |
Barbara Zimmerman | $255 | December 22, 2022 1:56 pm |
John Tremayne | $1,000 | December 16, 2022 7:35 pm |
Ani Redston | $50 | December 12, 2022 8:49 pm |
Tom Antony | $250 | December 12, 2022 1:49 am |
Anne-Marie Widner | $500 | December 11, 2022 11:19 am |
Burkhard Mausberg | $10 | December 10, 2022 5:04 pm |
Christina Eaton | $2,000 | December 9, 2022 9:15 pm |
Betty Morris | $1,000 | December 8, 2022 3:33 pm |
Cynthia Bracewell | $50 | November 30, 2022 1:05 pm |
TOM & SUSAN MAIN | $2,005 | November 29, 2022 8:15 pm |
Aileen Kemerer | $150 | November 29, 2022 4:09 pm |
robert dilworth | $100 | November 29, 2022 4:06 pm |
Michael McLaughlin | $200 | November 28, 2022 9:07 pm |
Ian & Christie Gray | $250 | November 27, 2022 1:48 pm |
Kevin Towers | $100 | November 25, 2022 9:16 pm |
Greg Aspin | $100 | November 25, 2022 6:44 pm |
Christopher Deane | $500 | November 22, 2022 9:49 pm |
Anonymous | $200 | November 16, 2022 8:56 pm |
Aqueduct Foundation | $5,000 | November 4, 2022 3:13 pm |
Michelle Berman | $100 | November 1, 2022 10:04 pm |
Alexandra von Schroeter | $500 | November 1, 2022 1:56 pm |
Monica Jenset | $50 | October 24, 2022 4:30 pm |
Chris Mifflin | $505 | October 22, 2022 4:48 pm |
Anonymous | $55 | October 22, 2022 1:20 pm |
Jennifer Marley | $225 | October 21, 2022 7:49 pm |
Anonymous | $30 | October 20, 2022 8:16 pm |
Brian Prendergast | $500 | October 17, 2022 6:51 pm |
Anne Morash | $1,000 | October 3, 2022 8:44 pm |
Anonymous | $25 | September 28, 2022 2:07 pm |
Lynn Quesnel | $50 | September 28, 2022 12:36 pm |
Anonymous | $250 | September 28, 2022 12:16 am |
Anonymous | $105 | September 27, 2022 9:45 pm |
Dorothy Zajac | $50 | September 27, 2022 4:52 pm |
Anonymous | $25 | September 27, 2022 2:23 pm |
Sylvie Clamageran | $55 | September 27, 2022 2:08 pm |
Judy & Craig Jarvis | $505 | September 22, 2022 6:38 pm |
Anonymous | $300 | September 20, 2022 3:43 pm |
George Butterfield | $25,000 | September 19, 2022 2:40 pm |
Anonymous | $250 | September 18, 2022 10:25 pm |
Lindsay Bradbury | $70 | September 17, 2022 1:07 pm |
Dave Loopstra | $1,587 | September 17, 2022 1:02 pm |
Jane Garthson | $100 | September 16, 2022 4:08 pm |
Gary Markotich | $250 | September 16, 2022 1:41 pm |
judy ross | $60 | September 16, 2022 1:21 pm |
Jon & Marty Linton | $200 | September 15, 2022 6:27 pm |
Susan Himel | $205 | September 15, 2022 12:48 am |
Andrew Duncanson | $5,000 | September 14, 2022 6:08 pm |
Rene Ebacher | $50 | September 14, 2022 5:01 pm |
Sarah Corrigan | $50 | September 14, 2022 12:03 pm |
Will Sutherland | $255 | September 14, 2022 1:12 am |
Christina Eaton | $30 | September 13, 2022 8:51 pm |
Caroline & Andrew Porter | $250 | September 13, 2022 4:35 pm |
Peter Henderson | $100 | September 13, 2022 3:59 pm |