{"id":208582,"date":"2025-10-01T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/?p=208582"},"modified":"2025-10-01T15:51:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:51:52","slug":"albertsydneysmith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/albertsydneysmith\/","title":{"rendered":"From Wayback Wednesday!: Port Sydney | Sponsored by Jamie Lockwood, broker\/owner of Sutton Group Muskoka Realty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"it-s-wayback-wednesday-sponsored-by-jamie-lockwood-broker-owner-of-sutton-group-muskoka-realty\"><strong><strong>Wayback Wednesday, sponsored by Jamie Lockwood, broker\/owner of Sutton Group Muskoka Realty<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>with family roots of more than 100 years in Huntsville<\/strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/08\/wayback-wed-lockwood.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199078\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/08\/wayback-wed-lockwood-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/08\/mTsBrI0i-wayback-wed-lockwood-630x263.jpg 630w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/08\/wayback-wed-lockwood-600x250.jpg 600w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/08\/wayback-wed-lockwood.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By Ted Johnson<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The founder of Port Sydney died almost 100 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost one hundred years ago, on October 2, 1925, the residents of Port Sydney learned that Albert Sydney-Smith had passed away at the age of 79. Bill Clarke, who would go on to own the renowned Pine Lodge, was fifteen at the time and told subsequent generations that the church bells rang out the unfortunate news that day, and a pall of sadness fell over the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So who was this man whose name is attached to the village and who inspired such affection?<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/10\/mill-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-208595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/10\/mill-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/10\/mill-3-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/10\/mill-3-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/10\/mill-3-577x432.jpg 577w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/10\/mill-3-630x472.jpg 630w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/10\/mill-3.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Albert Sydney-Smith speaking at the fiftieth anniversary of the building of Christ Church, Port Sydney, in July 1923. Seated beside him is Bishop George Thorneloe of the Anglican Diocese of Algoma. (Johnson collection)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>He was born in Hayesville, near the present-day Kitchener, Ontario, in 1846. In 1858, his father sold his business in that village and moved to a new home in Stratford, where he lived with his three sons and three daughters until his death in June 1867, just a few days before the birth of Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Albert was twenty years old when his father died and with an inheritance and an abiding interest in the economic potential of this young and growing country, he headed north. It was 1871. In a letter to his hometown paper, the Stratford Beacon, he described how Muskoka\u2019s bald rock can be off-putting but added that the area offered some inducements \u201cas not a single settler I have spoken to is displeased with it or had any desire to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He, too, chose to stay. And by the time of his passing, 54 years later, Albert Sydney-Smith had made his mark as an entrepreneur in lumbering, land development, and transportation, and\u2014equally importantly to him\u2014as a pillar of his community. On that last point, it was the people of the community and not Albert himself who chose to give their village his name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a lumberman, he developed a sawmill and grist mill at the falls on the Muskoka River just below Mary Lake. It drew logs from the surrounding forests, cut mainly in winter, and floated to the millpond above the falls following spring breakup. The mill would open when the ice went out and would close in late fall before freeze-up. It ran six days a week, and the whine of the saw could be heard over most of the village. At its peak, it could produce ten thousand board feet of lumber a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 1860s and &#8217;70s, Ontario was very much the poor cousin of Quebec. To stimulate growth, its government was offering inducements to settlers and so in addition to capitalizing the mill Albert paid $56 to the Crown for a substantial surrounding property, in all assembling some two hundred acres which he subdivided and which would become the heart of what we know today as Port Sydney, running essentially from the present-day bridge, along the river and lake shore up to the Town Dock. Much of this he subdivided to produce the housing lots we know today, as well as several streets named for prominent founding citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With very few and very challenging roads and no railways, water was the preferred mode of transportation in the mid-1800s. Following the construction of the Huntsville Locks in the \u201870s, several steamboats plied our waters. Using earnings from the mill, Albert acquired a small steamer and then launched his flagship \u201cThe Gem\u201d in 1897. It provided regular passenger and freight service from Port Sydney to Huntsville and back, while farmers along the route could raise a flag, and the Gem would stop to pick up milk for delivery to Port Sydney\u2019s co-op cheese factory at the Cheese Dock, well known to boaters even today.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/10\/Mill-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-208593\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Mr. Sydney-Smith, his steamer with Captain Casselman at the rail, and a load of tan bark for the tannery in Huntsville, circa 1905. In the distance stand the Anglican Church, the Cheese Factory and the steamer Ramona approaching the Cheese Dock. (Johnson collection)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>But the Gem was not Albert\u2019s only foray into transportation. During the railroad building era of the 1880s, he strove to convince the builders of the Canadian Northern and Pacific Railway (now CN) to run their line through Port Sydney. This might have made the village the head of navigation for North Muskoka and a boomtown. To his disappointment, a route was chosen through Huntsville. Had he succeeded, Port Sydney would not be the picturesque village it is today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the decades Albert, or \u201cMr Smith\u201d as he was affectionately known, was deeply involved in the community. Notably, he donated to the Anglican Diocese of Algoma the finest lot in the village as well as much of the lumber for a church, built with pride and in intricate detail by local craftsmen led by William Morgan after whom Morgan Street was named.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, in 1921, Albert gifted land for a new Community Hall for the village. Others donated money and labour, and on July 1, 1925, Mr. Albert Sydney-Smith and Mrs. James Jenner proudly led the grand march through Port Sydney to open the new Hall. (It stands today, and its centennial was celebrated at a 1920s-themed costume party a short while ago by an enthusiastic crowd.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, the parade was Albert Sydney-Smith\u2019s last formal appearance. Three months later, on October 2, he passed away. At his request he was laid to rest in the family plot in the Avondale Cemetery in Stratford. And a village mourned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong>Do you have interesting photos to share of days gone by? We&#8217;d love to see them! 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