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Last week we shared these photos with you:
These photos came to us from Judy Vanclieaf. Her grandfather, Dan Watson from Baysville, was a police officer for Lake of Bays McLean and Ridout wards in the 1950s and 1960s.
“A lot of his responsibilities were to police the area cottages for break-ins in the winter,” says Judy. “He built his own airboat (we called it a blow boat) out of plywood and an old airplane engine and propeller. He was then able to safely check on the cottages via water and ice through the winter.”
Although she never had the opportunity to ride in the boat, “I was told by my late mother, that is was very loud when it was in motion,” Judy says. “When I was growing up, it sat in the field behind my grandfathers house. We played on it a lot and pretended we were riding it.”
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