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Wayback Wednesday is sponsored by Cavalcade Color Lab<\/strong><\/p>\n Most who responded to this photo identified it as Blackburn’s Landing or Blackburn’s Marina. Shown here is Blackburn’s Boat Works. We don’t have a date for this photo, unfortunately. In that location now is Boston Pizza, and the marsh across the road is now the plaza and parking lot affectionately known as “Beer Lake” in the spring.<\/p>\n Some Doppler readers suggested the photographer’s vantage point was the Anglican Church, some a nearby home. Others offered up a few more details:<\/p>\n This house originally belonged to my great uncle, Norm Ware, where he raised his 5 children. He was an original partner in Ware Bros. grocery store in the Ware block with his brothers Ernie and Bert Ware (my grandfather).<\/p>\n GAIL ORR:![\"Wayback](\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2016\/04\/Wayback-Wednesday-13-MHP-header.jpg\")
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\nThis was Blackburn’s Marina when I was younger, I was told that there was a sawmill there prior to this so maybe this is part of that sawmill. Dad always told me that there used to be lots of muskrats in the swamp and the mill gradually filled it in with sawdust and stuff. The businesses along the main street that backed onto this swamp did their usual thing in those days and dumped everything they did not want into the swamp, hey it\u2019s a Canadian \u201cthing\u201d to do this. Now we get folks that know nothing of the history and they complain that the parking lot is \u201cfalling apart,\u201d floods with every rain and so on. Well gosh, it\u2019s like a land claim. We stole it from the muskrats, filled it with junk and only just high enough as fill costs money and then built on it\u2026 You wonder why things sag and fall apart!<\/div>\n
\nThe vantage point is the house on the top of the hill beside the Anglican Church. I think you might even have to be on the top floor to get that vantage point.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nI agree with all comments as well. The first thing I envisioned was Blackburn\u2019s Marina, but it does look like a saw mill. I notice that there are no vehicles nor piles of material around it,\u2026 maybe shut down by then? \u2013 just before Blackburn\u2019s Marina? I agree with Gail Orr on the vantage point. I notice what appears to be the peak of a roof near the bottom left corner, so possibly the top floor or even the roof of the church. I\u2019d love to know the date of this image and also, what was the two+ story building (with two roof lines\u2026veranda and posts?) \u2026. middle left side, behind the row of buildings on the river front.<\/div>\n