{"id":24582,"date":"2016-12-14T05:38:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T10:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=24582"},"modified":"2016-12-13T19:49:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T00:49:48","slug":"its-wayback-wednesday-flying-flags-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/its-wayback-wednesday-flying-flags-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Wayback Wednesday: The little train that could"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

In this week’s photo, the Portage Flyer back when it was still in service between Peninsula Lake and Lake of Bays. Can you guess the date? Do you have any memories of the Portage Flyer to share? (Photo courtesy of Muskoka Digital Archives.) <\/strong><\/p>\n

Don’t forget, the Portage Flyer makes its annual trek to see Santa this Saturday, December 17! Details here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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

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

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Brian Tapley said: “It looks like the saw mill at what is now the lock between Mary Lake and Fairy Lake. Not sure the date or name to go on it and it does not look like the lock has been built yet, just a dam.”<\/p>\n

Traci McIlroy ventured: “Think it is Weldwood sawmill on Hunters Bay.”<\/p>\n

Liz Hennessy Duffy thought “the Tannery?”<\/p>\n

Beth Hernen guessed “The locks mill, 1871. Located at the current Brunel Road locks.”<\/p>\n

The photo is indeed of the Muskoka River, above the locks. This image c.1895 is one of the earliest known images of the dam and sawmill on the Fairy Lake side of the locks. For more images and information about the history of the area, make a trip to the information board at the Brunel Locks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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