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It’s Wayback Wednesday: Roots

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!

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This week, we’re going back to a photo taken in November 1921. Do you know who used to live here or where this home was located? (Photo courtesy of Muskoka Heritage Place.)

Wayback Wednesday is sponsored by Cavalcade Color Lab

Last week we shared this photo with you:

Not surprisingly, many people correctly identified the man in the photo as Ray Porter. Here were some of your comments:
Lesley Joyce TolleyWhite (via Facebook): Who could mistake him for anyone but Ray! A very respected man of the community 🙂

Brian Tapley: A fair and reasonable meter guy! Yes, he gave me a few tickets over the years but he was always there with a friendly comment and you can bet that if he did give you a ticket…. well you deserved it! A really great guy!

Al Kudryk: That’s Ray Porter !!! He is the Meter Guy, the Crossing Guard, But Most of All the Real Santa that my Kids grew up with! Always Smiling and a How do you Do when you would meet. A Prince of a Man!!! But most of all a Friend !!!

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One Comment

  1. Ian Gibbard says:

    Before he was the meter man he was the towns police officer until the O.P.P. took over in 1970 , when the district of Muskoka came into being.