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Huntsville has long been popular with tourists. This week’s photo depicts some long-ago lodgings that would have been available, complete with hot and cold (!) showers according to the sign. Can you tell us anything about Clark’s Cabins or its location? (Photo courtesy of Muskoka Heritage Place.)
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Location: Memorial Park, Huntsville, Ontario. Swimming and camping facilities at the mouth of the Muskoka River and Fairy Lake at the base of Lookout Mountain.
Notes: Charles E. Paget spearheaded a fund raising effort in the spring of 1922 to purchase the property for a new park which opened July 2, 1923, as a memorial to the men who had died in the Great War. In 1923 the council formed a parks commission to look after the park under the chairmanship of Charles E. Paget. In 1924 the parks commission purchased the point at the north of the river with a view to establishing a safe bathing beach and a scenic driveway along the river. In 1925 a road was constructed, a new kitchen was built and campsites were established for motorists. In 1926 a lookout was opened on the mountain. By July 1929 six furnished cabins had been added to the park and the navigation company had erected a new dock.
From August 1939 until mid 1943, I and my mother, Maude, lived in Huntsville, ON, where my mother was housekeeper for Charles Clark who owned and operated a funeral home on the riverside property, as well as the cabins. Maude is long dead, died in 1947.