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Kawartha Lakes Invites the Community to Help Tell its Story Through Photos
The City of Kawartha Lakes is asking for help from community members, local museums, archives, and heritage organizations, to bring history to life through photography.
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.
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.
Canada Crayon Company–Crayola–now Rivera Park
The Crayola brand was developed by Binney and Smith Company. Cousins Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith of New York operated a chemical company making products like red iron oxide pigments for barn paint and carbon black chemicals to make tires black.
Fenelon Falls Post Office – CIBC
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries public buildings were important symbols in Ontario. Generations of immigrants had moved to the region to chop farms from the forests or help establish new services in towns. Many worked their whole lives just to afford and build a home they could give to their children.
Lindsay Library
In the nineteenth century—before the advent of motion pictures or radio—let alone the internet, print media was basically the only media that could reach an international audience. Having access to books opened exciting possibilities for those who could read—literacy was far from universal.
Beaverton Harbour
Beaverton developed as a crossroads village at the mouth of the Beaver River on Lake Simcoe. From this community’s earliest days, there was steamboat service on the lake, beginning with the Sir John Colborne, which was launched in 1832 at the lower landing on the Holland River, on Yonge Street.
Verulam Town Hall, Bobcaygeon
For the first generation after large scale European immigration began to the area, in communities like Bobcaygeon, Rokeby (as the village north of the river was then called) and Verulam Township, many of the public institutions were very rudimentary.
The McArthur House Hotel
During the age of the steamboats and stage coaches, it took much longer to get anywhere than it does today. In that era, steam travel was associated with progress, because it was so much faster and easier to transport large quantities of goods than in previous generations when people paddled.
Millyard’s Drug Store - Souter’s Variety
One of the many striking buildings on the main street of Coboconk, the exterior of Souter’s has changed little since it was Millyard’s Drug Store in the early twentieth century.
Old St. James
St. James Anglican Church is among the oldest organizations in Fenelon Falls. Before the advent of public schools, many children received their education through the church. It helped care for sick and elderly—for most people, giving to church was their primary charitable donation.
Coboconk’s VicPly Factory
As Coboconk was situated on the Gull River, a large proportion of the timber floated down the Trent Watershed in the late nineteenth century passed through the village—some would float as far as Trenton. In 1913, the Gull River Lumber Company built a large sawmill, on the shore of the Gull River, opposite the railway station
Kinmount Station
Kinmount grew around the Bobcaygeon Road’s bridge over the Burnt River. Though the Burnt River is a pleasant canoe route today, it was not practical for steam navigation because there were several rapids along the way. But it soon became one of the main arteries for exporting sawlogs from Haliburton.
Maryboro Lodge
As the village’s owner, James Wallis could choose any site he wished to build his home. He selected a lot in the Oak Grove, with a view of Cameron Lake and the Fenelon River.
Coboconk’s Lime Kilns
In 1889, Robert Callan (less commonly Callen) opened the Coboconk Lime Works, having previously made this product at St. Mary’s and Innerkip.
Lindsay’s Wharf
In the nineteenth century, Lindsay’s riverfront was a centre of industrial activity, particularly in the vicinity of the wharves and lock.
The Beehive - Eganridge Resort
In 1988, John and Patty Egan, who made a career of developing well-known hospitality properties, bought the Beehive and renamed it Eganridge Inn and Country Club.
Handley Lumber
Now in its fourth generation, Handley Lumber carries on as Fenelon Falls’ lumber yard.
Highlands Cinemas
Called “the most UNIQUE multiplex in the world,” Keith built Highlands Cinemas in an era when theatres were closing across North America.