{"id":28874,"date":"2017-03-29T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=28874"},"modified":"2017-03-28T16:27:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T20:27:28","slug":"its-wayback-wednesday-an-official-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/its-wayback-wednesday-an-official-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Wayback Wednesday: An icy landing strip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Wayback Wednesday sponsored by Cavalcade Color Lab! Every week, we&#8217;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<p><strong>Scroll down to see last week&#8217;s photo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"js_el\" class=\"_5pbx userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wayback Wednesday brought to you by Cavalcade Color Lab! Huntsville&#8217;s lakes see aircraft traffic in the summer, but a winter landing would be rare indeed. Can you guess where and why this plane landed on the ice, and the year this photo was taken? (Image courtesy of Muskoka Digital Archives.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Wayback Wednesday is sponsored by Cavalcade Color Lab<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"48158\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Last week we shared this photo with you:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28545\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2017\/03\/Wayback-Wednesday-12-Town-Hall-event.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1404\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2017\/03\/Wayback-Wednesday-12-Town-Hall-event-630x302.jpg 630w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2017\/03\/Wayback-Wednesday-12-Town-Hall-event.jpg 1404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1404px) 100vw, 1404px\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Arvina Bennett ventured: &#8220;Mayor Sid Avery with Chief Bigwin on steps of Town Hall, probably 1954\/55 or \u201956&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Arvina, you are correct on the people. In this 1936 photo, Mayor Sydney Avery (with paper) and Chief John Bigwin (in traditional dress at right) are on the steps of Town Hall to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the incorporation of the village of Huntsville. Huntsville was later incorporated as a town in 1901.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huntsville&#8217;s lakes see aircraft traffic in the summer, but a winter landing would be rare indeed. Can you guess where and why this plane landed on the ice, and the year this photo was taken? 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