Bøger af Gaye I Clemson

In early 1896, just as the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway (O.A.& PS) was nearly finished, Edson Chamberlin, the then General Manager of the Canada Atlantic Railway (C. A. R.) was granted by the Ontario Government over 25,000 acres of patent land around Victoria Lake. East of the newly created Algonquin National Park his intent was to build a hunting lodge and use the area as his own personal recreation reserve. This desire to experience the wilderness was part of a growing movement where people (mostly men) headed to the wilds in order to escape their urban lives and industrial jobs. The idea was to leave the Victorian perspectives of gentility, respectability, self-mastery and restraint (to a fault sometimes) behind and recapture a rougher, more primitive identity in a frontier environment. Soon after, Chamberlin built himself a hunting lodge on the south end of the lake and transferred some of the lots to business partner (and one presumes friend) Col. Edward Curtis Smith the then President of the Central Vermont Railway. Like Chamberlin, Smith loved the outdoors and in 1897, built himself a large ten-bedroom and five-bathroom lodge on the north end of the lake, which he named Camp Madawaska. Two years later he was elected Governor of the State of Vermont and served for a standard two-year term. Nearly ten miles from the closest town and the railway line, this narrative captures the story of Smith, his lodge and the family, (Wilmot and Victoria Hamilton) who with their 15 children were the lodge and the lake's caretakers and protectors for over 50 years.

Established by Molly Colson and her husband Ed, the then proprietors of the Algonquin Hotel just after Highway 60 opened in the mid-1930s, the P-Store, as the locals, call it has had many reincarnations. Learn about the history of this venerable institution, which hosts every week from the Victoria Day Weekend in late May to Thanksgiving in early October, hundreds of visitors venture to Canoe Lake who have come for an afternoon paddle, to pick up last minute suppliers or permits or just an ice cream cone or a Canoe Lake memory from the gift shop on a hot summer day. Whatever type of visitor, there is always something of interest at the Portage Store.

Canoe Lake, in Algonquin Park, is home to a rich history of events, characters, landmarks, stories and even a possible unsolved murder mystery. This guide brings to life thirteen of the most interesting historical landmarks on the lake some visible and some not. For each is captured its location, historical roots and fun stories about those who at one time lived and loved on its beautiful shores.

Established in 1896 with the coming of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, Rock Lake Station was for over forty years a bustling centre for Algonquin park tourism and commerce. Unfortunately the demise of the railway in the late 1940''s sealed its fate and today there are no signs of its existence, unless one knows where and how to look,. This book is the third in a series of narratives designed to bring to life the human history of Algonquin Park with specific focus on over 100 years of an active and vibrant Rock Lake and Whitefish Lake community.