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Maryboro Lodge Personality: Marion Henderson
After the Great War began in 1914, calls went out across the British Empire to recruit young men and women to serve overseas. Marion signed up to do her part and, like many of the other youths, had no idea of the adventure that lay ahead.
Maryboro Lodge Personality: Nelson Vannier
Jack fought every major fire in the area, including memorable blazes at Rosedale Furniture (formerly the Botany Spinners and the Grist Mill) and the Anchorage House (formerly Alpine Inn and Hotel Kawartha). The latter fire was in winter, and the men were just about frozen by the end of the night.
Maryboro Lodge Personality: Jack Vanatter
Jack fought every major fire in the area, including memorable blazes at Rosedale Furniture (formerly the Botany Spinners and the Grist Mill) and the Anchorage House (formerly Alpine Inn and Hotel Kawartha). The latter fire was in winter, and the men were just about frozen by the end of the night.
Maryboro Lodge Personality: Jim Taggart
Jim was well known for his unique understanding of animals. He loved to tell the story about the time that he got 49 skunks out of one lady’s house (he was disappointed that he couldn’t make it an even 50), or the time that he got a call because there was a skunk under the cash register in the Central Café.
Maryboro Lodge Personality: Marian Godwin
Godwin’s Store was on Burnt River’s main street, located just north of the railway tracks. The sales counter had been salvaged from John Handley’s store during the Burnt River fire of 1944.
Maryboro Lodge Personality: Ingvar Skoog
Ingvar’s former salesman Jan Fenelius moved to North America, and contacted his old employer about setting up a factory in Canada. Ingvar was interested and in 1974, purchased Fenelon Falls’ former Allen Wood Products factory.
Maryboro Lodge Personality: Allan Stanley
Originally from Timmins, Allan Stanley was a rock-solid defensive defenseman who played for the Rangers, Blackhawks, Bruins, Flyers and Leafs.
Maryboro Lodge Personality: Ray Handley
Fenelon Falls residents grew accustomed to seeing Ray and Chester working side by side, as they sold lumber from a small building beside the Helen Street mill.
Maryboro Lodge Personality: Mossie Boyd
In 1893, while travelling in California, he encountered a buffalo (bison) bull named Napoleon Bonaparte, and believed that crossing Napoleon with domestic cattle would yield “radical improvement obtained in one cross; as much as, or more than, we could reasonably hope to effect in a century by the customary method of selecting.”
Maryboro Lodge Personality: Byron Martin
For the rest of his life, Byron was a fixture at the Bobcaygeon Area. In the era before television, just about everyone came out to community events. In Bobcaygeon, Friday night was Junior ‘D’ Hockey, and the rink was packed with fans.
Step Inside Local History at Doors Open 2026
Every other year, Doors Open gives residents and visitors a chance to explore some of the places that make Kawartha Lakes unique.
Maryboro Lodge Personality: Sheila Boyd
Annie Sheila Boyd was the youngest daughter of Mossom Martin and Ida Lillian deGrassi Boyd. Her grandfather, the first Mossom Boyd of Bobcaygeon, had come over as an orphan and risen to become one of Canada’s best-known timber barons.
Maryboro Lodge Personality: George Crandell
Seventeen-year-old George was caught red-handed stealing his neighbour’s gun and sentenced to five years of hard labour in the Kingston Penitentiary. Incarceration certainly did not soften George at all, but when he was released in 1850, he set out in a new direction from the life of crime that he had known as a child.
Maryboro Lodge Personality: Marg Allen
In the 1980s, the Fenelon Falls Public Library was one of those places that most village residents visited regularly and Marg (Holliday) Allen was the familiar face that greeted them.
Maryboro Lodge Personality: John Langton
John Langton grew up in a wealthy mercantile Lancashire family. His father, Thomas, ran a business importing flax and hemp for the manufacture of sailcloth, just the type of venture that did conspicuously well in Britain during the Industrial Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.
Maryboro Lodge Personality: Dick Bulmer
Dick Bulmer was a local legend. He was among the last traditional blacksmiths in Victoria County. He made his living fabricating whatever people needed.
Maryboro Lodge Personality: James Dickson
While he was slogging his way through the bush, trying to lay out straight lines through the forests of Algonquin Park, it was evident to him that the region could never support farm families, but was a place he would love to go hunting and fishing.
Maryboro Lodge Personality: Belle, Tilly and Kate Abbott
When visitors came to Maryboro Lodge, they often spent time enjoying summer on the porch overlooking the river. To be gracious hosts, the Abbott Sisters often served tea with their homemade cookies.
Remembering the Tragedy on Balsam Lake 100 Years Later
One of the worst tragedies in the area occurred on Balsam Lake on July 20, 1926.
Maryboro Lodge Personality: Mark Fell
Mark arrived on the Western Front in time to witness some of the most intense fighting. He felt the ground shake under the great artillery barrages, watched friends fall, and was himself wounded when he was hit with shrapnel in the left foot.