Wayback Wednesday, sponsored by Jamie Lockwood, broker/owner of Sutton Group Muskoka Realty!
The Algonquin steamship passes through the swing bridge in Huntsville, Ontario. From a private collection on Muskoka Digital Archives. Dated, 1938-1952.
The photograph shows the new two-lane bridge constructed in 1938. The Algonquin is headed downstream toward Fairy Lake, Peninsula Lake, and the North Portage.
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I can remember watching that big boat run. All 125 feet of her. Saw the waves hitting the shore and dock along the camp kitchen. And I have asked a lot of people about being on the river when the Algonquin went by. Jan Fisher tells me that it could take a lot of the water from under your canoe.
When paddling with her friend Barb Ralston, if the Algonquin was coming they would get under the willows along the shore and hang onto the branches. The crest of the wave would lift them up into the tree and then the trough could sometimes settle them, briefly, on the bottom. That first wave could have a difference of a meter an a half between crest and trough. The next wave was not so extreme and after the third they could let go the branches and paddle on.