Kinmount Gazette KINMOUNT GAZETTE THE KINMOUNT COMMITTEE FOR PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Kinmount Fair 2015 A Tremendous Success October 2015 Volume 7: Issue 12 Inside this issue: FRIENDS & NEIGHBOURS: 2 FIRST NATIONS HONOURED 3 SCHOOL SECTIONS BADDOW S.S. #4 4 THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER 5 CHRISTMAS IN THE VILLAGE 6 COUNCILOR’S CORNER 7 SIDE ROADS OF KINMOUNT: BADDOW 8 KIDS CORNER 9 THE HOT STOVE 10 FEDERAL ELECTIONS 2015 13 THE ICELANDIC SAGA PART III 14 MYTHBUSTERS 15 VICTORIA PONY CLUB NEWS 18 HISTORY OF SPARKY THE FIRE DOG 19 DOROTHY’S DELIGHTS 19 LITERARY CORNER: ROSES AND THORNS 21 FIRST NATIONS HONOURED 22 EDITORIAL 23 Saturday Oct.10 Get Results! 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So famous was Stony Lake Indian River water diversion of the Kawartha Lakes, and Lake was by steamboat from among canoeists, that the American project. The Indian River runs arguably, the most famous Lakefield or Burleigh Falls. At the Canoe Association held sever North through Warsaw into Rice Lake lake in the chain. It sits on the height of the (summer) tourist American conventions on the lake. and was the power source for edge of the Canadian Shield industry (1880-1940), 3 steamboat The first in 1883 attracted over 400 many local mills. Its headwaters and the St Lawrence Low- trips per day left Lakefield for canoe enthusiasts from all over are in White Lake, a mere half- lands. It is on a transition ports or landings along the lake. North America. They shipped in mile south of Stony Lake. The point between granite and Some of this traffic was related to their canoes and held a regatta that Indian River suffers from low limestone. It was widely the lumber business, but most was include races. The resulting publici- water flow in dry times, forcing revered by the Natives of the tourist trade. ty further enhanced Stony Lake‘s the mills to shut down. The local Kawartha Lakes as a mystical In 1873 the Midland Railway reputation, especially among Amer- mill owners developed a scheme place. The Natives called the reached Lakefield, making Stony icans. to dig a canal from White Lake Lake ―Kawakonikong‖ (place Lake readily accessible to the Picnics were hugely popular among to Stony Lake and divert water of edible moss) or outside world. The Stony Lake the tourist crowd. They would ca- from the larger lake down the ―Cheboutequoin‖ (big, long, Navigation Company began regu- noe to one of the smaller, unoccu- Indian River. The difference in rocky water). By the 1880s, it lar trips in 1885, and the golden pied islands and pick berries, fish, elevation between Stony Lake was called Salmon Trout lake, age of the tourist hotel was born. swim and generally relax. The is- and White Lake was a mere 7 but by 1900 the term Stoney Early tourists camped on the shore lands on Stony Lake were noted for feet after the dam at Young‘s Lake was in popular use. or islands in canvas tents. A few their profusion of wild berries that Point was built, so in 1838 the Somewhere along the way the private cottages were contructed included blueberries, cranberries, ―Choate Canal‖ was blasted out ―e‖ was lost and it became in the late 1800s, but the main blackberries, wild cherries, goose- and water flowed south down the Stony Lake. base was a series of spectacular berries and wild currants. The larg- Indian River. The project actual- The Lake is dotted by hun- hotels. The hotels catered to the er hotels such as the Belvedere at ly worked! dreds of islands; some large, rich who would often stay for Crowe‘s Landing, the Victoria In the 1920s, huge improve- many small. These islands are several weeks. The campers & House at McCracken‘s Landing , ments to the road system in- mostly granite and the lake cottagers needed to purchase sup- Irwin Inn, Burnham Lodge, and the creased the access to Stony Lake has a rock bottom, as opposed plies, and several summer or Glenwood Hotel. Juniper Island and further opened up the tourist to the mud bottoms of most of branch stores sprang up along the became a centre for cottagers, with industry. But it doomed the the other Kawartha Lakes. shores at places like McCracken‘s a large store and an even larger Steamboat industry, the last The rock bottom means Stony Landing and Crowe‘s Landing. pavilion. A pavilion was a large boats being scrapped in 1944. Lake is a ―cold-water lake‖, These were often branch stores for hall, often with just a roof and Private cottages replaced the and has a slightly different local businessmen. They sold floor, where local events such as grand old hotels of the Golden ecosystem than the mud bot- fresh milk and produce grown dances, parties, etc were held. The Age on Stony Lake. Property tomed lakes. Thus the profu- locally, and the local farmers also south shore of Stony Lake was dot- values rose and the cottages be- sion of salmon (lake) trout prospered. ted by several elaborate pavilions to came more elaborate (and ex- who need cold water. The These early centres were called add to the social life. Many of the pensive!). Today, Stony Lake is countless islands and rocky ―landings‖ because the customers larger pavilions held Sunday church still a very popular tourist desti- shores make Stony Lake a came by boat and ―landed‖ there. services. Tourists would arrive by nation, and cottages on the lake very picturesque place, and Later, the name ―marinas‖ were boat (especially canoes!) formally are the most expensive in the the natural beauty translated used to refer to these businesses. dressed for the highlight of the Kawarthas. into tourism early in the set- In the age of the motor boat, ser- week. To save the ef- tlement period of its history. vices such as gas and repairs were fort of long paddles in As early as the 1850s, locals added. The Stony Lake steamers formal attire, small were using the lake for recrea- called at most of the landings, and steam boats and tion and tourism. The Strick- a substantial wharf was a necessi- launches would tow land Family of famous au- ty. The Landings gradually be- strings of canoes to thors from Lakefield constant- came social centres where visitors church! Regattas were ly wrote about this beautiful gathered informally or formerly also a popular boating lake, all in glowing terms. for regattas. pastime. They featured The north end of the lake lies Popular pastimes for these tourists races and…parades, in Burleigh Township, and is (besides just ―hanging out‖ in- etc. But the big point chronicled in an earlier Ga- cluded fishing, swimming, boat- to a regatta was to ar- zette under Mt Julian. Access ing, picnicking and sightseeing. rive by boat and visit could be gained to the lale via The boat of choice was the canoe. with the other at- Page 2 Kinmount Gazette Kinmount Committee for Planning and Economic Development Stoney Lake, continued from p. 2 Tell our advertisers you saw their ad in the Kinmount Gazette! McCracken’s Landing today; Stoney Lake Boat Cruise—Kawartha Spirit; The Stoney Lake Navi- gation Company c. 1900; Juniper Island Summer Store c. 1900 Page 3 Kinmount Gazette Kinmount Committee for Planning and Economic Development School Sections: Baddow SS#4 Since the earliest settlers to Somer- frame school. In 1878 there were so ville arrived to the Baddow area, many students in the section that it one of the earliest schools was set was split in two and a new school up in the same section. SS #4 was built on the east side along the Somerville was set up in 1860. Its North Line Road between Baddow number (4) means it was the fourth and Burnt River.