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At the village of Mowat, abandoned by Gilmour Lumber Co. in 1900, the mill's former boarding house became Mowat Lodge in 1913. The Highland Inn was enlarged, and new camps were built. Nominigan Camp, consisting of a main lodge with six cabins of log construction, was established on Smoke Lake.
In the 1960s, it was considered to add this area to the perimeter recreation system program of Algonquin Provincial Park. In 1985, the park was officially created with an original area of 382 hectares (940 acres), and enlarged in 1995 to 507 hectares (1,250 acres) by the addition of 125 hectares (310 acres) around the Oxtongue River Bog Forest.
The Muskoka River is a river in the Muskoka District of Ontario, Canada. The river is the third largest river draining the southern Ontario land mass by average annual flow. [1] It rises in the highlands of Algonquin Park and flows southwest through a number of lakes including Lake Muskoka; Lake Joseph; Lake Rosseau; Lake of Bays
The District Municipality of Muskoka, more generally referred to as the District of Muskoka or Muskoka, is a regional municipality in Central Ontario, Canada.It extends from Georgian Bay in the west, to the northern tip of Lake Couchiching in the south, to the western border of Algonquin Provincial Park in the east.
The Canadian Land and Emigration Company later opened in the 1870s and operated until 1892. A third sawmill was constructed in 1903 by the William Laking Lumber Company. All three of these mills were constructed on the Drag River, an important river in the county in the center of Haliburton Village used to send lumber downstream. [3]
The mill was purchased by the Munn Lumber company in 1910, itself recently purchased by James Brockett Tudhope, to supply hardwood to his furniture company in Orillia. Munn became infamous for their clearcutting of Algonquin Park, and caused a serious backlash when they proposed to cut around the Highland Inn. In response, the Department of ...
The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, or OA&PS, is a historic railway that operated in central and eastern Ontario, Canada, from 1897 to 1959.It was for a time the busiest railway route in Canada, [1] carrying both timber and wood products from today's Algonquin Provincial Park areas, as well as up to 40% of the grain traffic from the Canadian west from Depot Harbour at Parry Sound ...
Like most lumber barons, Gilmour and Company received most of its product from the northern timber limits of what is now the Algonquin Park region. The trees would be felled in the forests by men living in work camps, then floated down the regional waterways of the Kawartha lake region to their final destination; the Gilmour Mill along the Trent River, at the mouth of the Bay of Quinte.