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Fenelon Station Gallery
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Fenelon Station Gallery

In 1874, Fenelon Falls incorporated as a village so it could approve a subsidy to bring the railway to town. By the summer of 1876, tracks connected Lindsay to Fenelon Falls and a station was complete by September, with Thomas Lockhart as the first station master.

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The Academy Theatre
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The Academy Theatre

By the late nineteenth century, Lindsay was growing as a county seat on the banks of the Scugog River. It was a busy railway town, and steamships sailed to the wharf from communities like Bobcaygeon. Having been built on a former wetland, Kent Street was still marshy and it was common to see wagons sinking up to their axles. Despite these hardships, progress was a transcending value of the Victorian era, and a performance space would be a wonderful addition to this growing community.

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Mackenzie House
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Mackenzie House

In 1849 William Mackenzie was born in a log shanty near the Portage Road, being the ninth child of two poor tenants, Mary and John Mackenzie. After briefly teaching school and operating the Shoofly Store in Kirkfield, Willliam and his brother Alex started a construction business.

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