THE COUNTRY VILLAGE OF MCNAB
This rich agricultural community with longstanding families was originally in Grantham Township.
Its Village hub was for over 30 years from 1900 situated at the crossroads or Lakeshore and McNab Roads with a post office and store, a blacksmith shop, a tavern, two schools and an inter urban streetcar link.
The village was named by postmistress Gussie Bogardus after the hrst settlers, John and Colin McNab, who arrived in the 1780s.
In the early 1800s the village tavern on Eight Mile Creek was a popular hangout for Great Lakes smugglers. The first school was built by 1840 and Christ Church followed in 1853. Both the back of the Christ Church graveyard and that on a high bluff overlooking the creek are the last resting places for those enslaved in McNab. Until 1932 when the horse & carriage shed was removed, farming families would all come by horse to church services every Sunday.
The parish hall, originally built in 1912 was reoriented in 1934 for community gatherings by donations from Alexander Teffy Servos.