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    As well as controlling water levels, the Big East River system was used every spring for log runs. The various lumber companies in the area stamped their logs and sent them down the river with the sp

    A lumbering dam built on this site in the 1880s created an artificial lake, Distress Pond, to hold water for log drives. The present concrete dam, built in 1955 by the Department of Public Works, mai

    Bridge over Marsh's Falls on the Oxtongue River, Lake of Bays, Ontario. Spring 1951.

    The Locks Mill was constructed in 1871 by John Fetterly who sold it to the Cottrill family in 1907. It closed in 1954 when part of the mill foundation collapsed. It was the longest operating waterpow

    View of Huntsville, Ontario taken from the Lookout Mountain,looking north. Fairy Avenue on the right. Church Street on the left. Kellock's greenhouses in the forefront on Church Street to the right.

    Henry Edward Hares (1837-1905) and Elizabeth Harvey Hares (1851-1932), settlers in Stephenson Township, Muskoka, Ontario.

    In the 1880s Mr. Jacob H. Johnson arrived in Huntsville full of enthusiasm for life in the north country. He began investing time and money in various worhtwhile projects, including the Portage Railw

    This is the oldest stone church in Muskoka, built in 1885 of local stone on a one-acre piece of property donated by Charles William Johnson the village storekeeper, who asked that it be named after h