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Today, Camp Kitchen is a public swimming area and home to the Purser’s Cabin marking the end of the line for the Portage Flyer. This photo shows a different scene. Do you know what was in the park way back then? (Photo courtesy of Muskoka Digital Archives.)
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The inscription on the photo says “John Whiteside’s Mill”.
According to Huntsville: With Spirit and Resolve by Susan Pryke, John Whiteside ran the Riverside Lumber Company between the bridge and Fairy Lake. Whiteside’s lumber mill was destroyed by fire in 1882 and he had moved into the general store business, but ‘Being naturally attached to the timber trade he sold out the store and erected last year [1898] a splendid shingle mill on the old site. It is running each day at full blast and turns out about 400,000 shingles each week.’
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