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The steamship Algonquin plied the waters between Huntsville and Lake of Bays for decades. A trip that now takes half an hour by road took three hours by steamer then. Can you guess the date of this photo? (Image via Bigwin Island Golf Club.)
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Last week we shared this photo with you:
We don’t have details about this vintage postcard but Doppler readers helped us out with the run — it’s the Dutchman at Hidden Valley Highlands Ski Area. The date is still up in the air with some thinking it’s late ’60s and others claiming it’s into the 1970s. Thanks for chiming in, everyone!
I think that is Art Silverwood’s farm house in the background behind the Algonquin on Hunters bay. The farmhouse is still there, with a lot of other houses. Dean Murdy built one of the first big homes on the bay. This photo is before that. My guess is 1940’s.
Although I’m not entirely sure, while the prop is obviously in reverse, I notice both the flow lines off the left bumpers where there is less disturbance from the prop and the flow line off the bow as seen by the distortion of reflection of the boat. Both seem to indicate that the boat might actually be moving backwards leaving the dock with the rudder deflected hard right. With forward motion, there would be no forward flow line from the bow. Sorry, too many years on the water!
The steamship Algonquin plied the waters between Huntsville and Peninsula Lake – not Lake of Bays. Perhaps you meant it delivered passengers and goods to the Portage Flyer – our little train that took passengers and goods over the hill to Lake of Bays where they boarded another steamer to their destination.
This comment is based on the tracks in the foreground of the main picture, indicating it was a railroad dock.
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The Algonquin about to dock at the Station Warf to pick up train passengers to take them to their destinations. The big one of course, Bigwin Inn. It would have stopped previously at Bigwin Farms and Laundry dock, right across from the Tannery.
1930 for the steamship Algonquin