Michael's Bay is a ghost town in Tehkummah, Ontario, Canada. It was located on the namesake bay at the mouth of the Manitou River.^[1]

Certain areas of Manitoulin Island were covered under the Treaty of 1862 and Indigenous peoples relocated after it was signed.^[2] Michael's Bay was the first area to be used by settlers,^[3] eventually becoming the largest settlement on the island.^[4] The town was known for its prominent lumber industry from the 1860s to the early 1900s.^[4] At its height, Michael's Bay had a post office, two boarding houses,^[4] a lighthouse, a lath mill, a sawmill, and a shingle mill. A school was established in 1874.^[3] While the industry was quite lucrative at first, financial prospects dwindled once Americans began charging tariffs on Canadian exports. By 1890, most of the town's residents had moved.^[2] A 1914 fire ruined the bulk of the remaining infrastructure.^[3]

The original lighthouse stopped functioning in 1947. Members of the Michael's Bay Historical Society successfully campaigned for a replacement that was built in 2006. The new lighthouse is solar-powered and has a historical plaque at its base.^[5] In 2005, a property in Michael's Bay was subject to a criminal investigation by Belgium, which alleged that a Canadian couple had been using it to sell bovine growth hormone, and successfully encouraged the Canadian government to seize the land.^[6] Some of the land remained unsold until 2021, when it was bought by the Michael's Bay Historical Society.^[7]

• List of ghost towns in Ontario

• รัสเซลล์, เดเร็ก (2016). อ่าวไมเคิล: การรุ่งเรืองและการล่มสลายของเมืองที่ถูกลืมบนเกาะมานิโทลิน . สมาคมประวัติศาสตร์ออนแทรีโอ. ISBN 9780993670817.