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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 huntsville@doppleronline.ca and we may share them with our readers!<\/p>\n

Scroll down to see last week’s photo.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s Wayback Wednesday brought to you by Cavalcade Color Lab! Today, boats, canoes and kayaks ply Huntsville’s lakes and rivers for pleasure, but at one time they were used for industry, too. In this 1920 photo, logs are being towed to a local mill. In Huntsville With Spirit and Resolve, Susan Pryke tells us that the last river drives on the Big East and Buck rivers were in 1936, although the Muskoka Wood Company continued towing logs around local lakes until 1945. (Photo courtesy of Muskoka Digital Archives<\/em>.)
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Photo courtesy of Muskoka Digital Archives<\/p><\/div>\n

Wayback Wednesday is sponsored by Cavalcade Color Lab<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Last week we shared this photo with you:<\/div>\n

Photo courtesy of ontariogenealogy.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Dave Johns shared with us: “Nice shot of Main Street. The newest car I can spot is a 1957 vintage. Front left is Jack Lee\u2019s Austin Healy sports car. Back in those days we used to see a few British cars in Huntsville like MGs, Triumphs, Morris, Austins, Oxford, Vauxhall, Epic. Most people who owned them found that they couldn\u2019t stand up to our harsh winters. Heaters didn\u2019t heat, doors froze up, brakes rusted and a lot of other bad things, so sales dropped off. Clark\u2019s Pioneer Garage sold the B.M.C. line of cars with their last big seller being the Austin 850 Mini. Happy motoring!!” Thanks, Dave!<\/div>\n

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