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It’s Wayback Wednesday: Caption this!

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Welcome to Wayback Wednesday sponsored by Cavalcade Color Lab! Every week, we’ll be sharing a vintage photo and asking our readers to chime in with anything you can recall about the photo, other related memories, or even a funny caption. Have some vintage photos of your own? Send them to [email protected] and we may share them with our readers!

Scroll down to see last week’s photo including the origin of the curious monument on Huntsville’s Main Street many years ago.

This week, in honour of the start of the Huntsville Jr C Hawks lacrosse season, we want to hear your captions for this photo (below) of the Huntsville Gaels. Here are some to get your creative juices flowing, and bonus points if you can also name some of the players:

Were people’s ears bigger in the 60s?
Or, Lacrosse boys don their fathers’ coats for photo

(Photo courtesy of Muskoka Heritage Place, Forester Collection.)

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Wayback Wednesday is sponsored by Cavalcade Color Lab

Last week’s photo showed a long ago view of Main Street. Debi Davis wanted to know: “I am curious about the monument on the right.”
For the answer, we turned to Huntsville With Spirit and Resolve by Susan Pryke, and it turns out that monument is actually a fountain. Susan writes: “An interesting feature appeared on Main Street in the summer of 1903. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union raised $300 to purchase a water fountain for ‘thirsty horses, cattle, and dogs.’ It was placed at the southeast corner of Main and West streets at the Methodist Church. The unveiling was a huge event, with Mayor Hart and all the councillors in attendance, along with the local clergymen and Huntsville Brass Band. The fountain was unveiled by Miss Daisy Wardell, who was dressed to represent Miss Canada. She wore a rich gown of white organdy trimmed with maple leaves.”
Wayback Wednesday 16 - MHP Main St

Like these photos? You’ll find all of the Wayback Wednesday photos here, and you can see tons of vintage photos at the Muskoka Museum at Muskoka Heritage Place.

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