Lake of Bays : Highlands of Ontario
Lake of Bays L<*keofBays THE LAKE OF BAYS On the Lake of Bays THE LAKE OF BAYS Perhaps nowhere in the history of the " Highlands of Ontario," mind when providing the luxurious trains upon which the patrons or anywhere in Canada, is there an outing place which has been of the Grand Trunk Railway System travel over their splendid such a signal success as the Lake of Bays District. While it is double-tracked line from Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, Boston, Port- true that a number of small hotels and cottages have existed land and Montreal, and the handsome special Highland service here for some time, the real "start" was made in 1908, when the from Toronto north to the Lake of Bays. These special trains spacious Wawa Hotel was opened at Norway Point. run right down to the wharf at Huntsville, which is only 145 Lake of Bays scenery is rugged enough to be romantic and miles north of Toronto, and the traveler steps from the train to yet restful to the eye. The altitude, 1,000 feet above the sea, the steamer, which steams away at once down Fairy River, makes the spiced air rare and invigorating. The skies are usually clear and beautifully blue, but not the endless, cloudless blue that arches the arid wastes of desert lands; which becomes as tiring in times as the almost end- less rains of tropical climes. In fact, there is just sufficient rain in this well-ordered region to freshen the foliage and keep the grass growing green. The Lake of Bays is only one, but the larg- est one, of a number of lakes, some of them linked, one to another, by locked rivers, and some by open free-flowing streams.
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