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

    The major obstacle to water navigation between Huntsville and the resorts on Lake of Bays was the portage between Peninsula Lake and Lake of Bays. Although only a distance of one mile separated the t

    The Big East River headwaters rise on the rugged western rim of the Algonquin Highland, adjacent to those of the Oxtongue River. Water pouring off the uninhabited hills quickly finds its way into sev

    The Muskoka Wood Manufacturing Co., was founded in 1901 by Robert James Hutcheson. Following his death in 1941 it was operated by his three sons, Frank, Harry and Arthur until it was sold in 1955. Th

    Log sawing contest near Huntsville, Ontario, 1966.

    Logs property of Muskoka Wood Producers Ltd., of Huntsville, Ontario.

    Muskoka Wood Products Ltd., Mill, on Hunter's Bay, Huntsville, Ontario, early 1950s.

    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

    Aerial view Hunter's Bay, Vernon Narrows, Vernon Lake,Huntsville,Ontario, 1983.

    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.

    Horses and a walking plow with rough pole fences in background. This photograph was taken c1915 by Frank C. Paterson, Agricultural Representative for Muskoka Parry Sound Districts, 1915-1919.

    Captain George Hunt, an English army officer, born on the island of Corfu in the Mediterranean,came to Huntsville from Quebec in 1869, choosing lots 14 and 15 in the Township of Chaffey, on the east

    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 photograph was taken in 1947 when the barn was dismantled. The old barn foundation is the base of the home of Dennis Hutcheson at 30 King Street. The barn was built for Dr. Jacob Wilson Hart at

    A Comittee was struck in 1947 to plan for the hospital which opened its doors in 1949 with 26 beds. In 1955 a chronic wing was added and in 1963 a brick addition. In 1967 the hospital took over the p

    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

    In the background the Huntsville Memorial Hospital which opened in 1949. The white house in the foreground centre is the home of Bazette and Shirley Hutcheson. Right foreground the Kellock Green Hous

    Edgar George Evans was born May 15, 1882 in the Township of Georgina, York Co., to George Evans Jr., a farmer and Priscilla Prosser. After graduating from the University of Toronto Medical College he

    There is an error in the label on the photo – the last line / front row is Alexander, **Emma**, Evelena, Louis, Silvio