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View of the dockhouse, left, taken by George Emmerson from on top of a pile driver at the lakefront in 1940. You can see kids enjoying swimming by the diving board near the end of the dock. The dockhouse had change rooms for males and females. Above, the damaged dockhouse as it began to sag in the spring of 1958. The ‘dockhouse’, as it became known, was used as change rooms for swimmers. The inside was divided into two sections, one for boys and the other for girls. Since the dockhouse was not built directly on the cement pier, but on wooden piles alongside the dock on the north side, it required constant maintenance due to rot and ice damage. In the spring of 1958, heavy ice crushed the decaying pil- lars causing severe damage and the building began to tip into the lake, spelling the doom of the unique little house on the pier. The following year, the local council decided to remove the aging dockhouse and offered it for sale by tender. It was removed from the end of the pier in March 1959, after serving the community for 44 years. There are still many from the community who fondly remember the good times they had at the ‘dockhouse’ and old swimming hole during their youthful days. One old-timer fondly recalled the interior of the old ‘dockhouse’ had Kids swimming a dividing wall which provided a girls change room on one side, and a boys at the Port Perry change room on the other side. This wall allowed an opportunity for many mis- wharf about 1940. chievous young lads to cut through a knot hole with a pen knife to give them a secret view of the girls getting changed. When discovered the hole was plugged up, but he smilingly sug- gested new hole appeared shortly after the first one was covered. The Port Perry wharf with the passenger ship Woodman as it looked during the summer of 2009. FOCUS -JUNE 2010 45