In the nineteenth century, improving agriculture was a social cause that was almost universally esteemed.

Originally Keys Hotel, it was located in a logging town, and many of its customers were lumbermen.

The Canal Lake Arch Bridge was designed based on Austrian Engineer Josef Melan’s System.

Around 1940, Hillcroft had three classrooms containing about forty desks each, plus a science laboratory.

In 1948, Lou Consky opened the Fenelon Theatre—in a building constructed of bricks, along with concrete blocks that had been handmade by Mark Fell, Joe Gamsby and Milt Perryman.

Within a generation, almost all of the small neighbourhood churches stopped holding regular services—but not Providence Church. It is one of the last surviving rural churches in the area.

By the 1870s, Lindsay was connected by railway to the cities on Lake Ontario, and there was steamship service to Bobcaygeon ….

For generations life in Rosedale has centred around the pleasures of living beside the waterway.

In the early nineteenth century, Fenelon Falls was a unique landscape, “fringed with dwarf oaks,” in the words of Thomas Need, that stood out from the dense forests that dominated much of the region.