{"id":97309,"date":"2021-05-05T09:06:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T13:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=97309"},"modified":"2021-05-05T09:06:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T13:06:06","slug":"its-wayback-wednesday-sponsored-by-pharmasave-may5-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/its-wayback-wednesday-sponsored-by-pharmasave-may5-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Wayback Wednesday sponsored by Pharmasave: West end archway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>It&#8217;s Wayback Wednesday, sponsored by Pharmasave Huntsville!<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"48158\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All Highway 11 traffic once passed beneath this archway, which was located in Huntsville\u2019s west end. At the time it was built, in 1932, the Department of Highways provided road signs identifying all the towns along on highways in southern Ontario, communities in Muskoka were left to their own devices. The idea for the archway came from Harold Briggs, chairman of the publicity committee of the Huntsville Board of Trade. Local families were invited to contribute stones for its pillars.<\/p>\n<p>The archway was officially opened by Mayor J. Frank Kelly in July 1932. The inscription read, &#8220;Huntsville, Lake of Bays &#8211; Summer and Winter Vacationland&#8221;. The Town of Bracebridge objected to Huntsville calling itself the Gateway to Lake of Bays, claiming that it was easier to get to Lake of Bays via Bracebridge, but the the Grand Trunk and Canadian National Railways had already been advertising Huntsville as the Gateway to Lake of Bays.<\/p>\n<p>In July 1958, a truck carrying a bulky load struck the heavy steel beam that joined the pillars and knocked it from its moorings. An oil company had been pleading with town council for years to widen the arch or remove it because trucks could not get through town. Following the accident, the archway was removed.<\/p>\n<p>The Highway 11 bypass was officially opened November 27, 1959.<\/p>\n<p>(Image courtesy of Muskoka Digital Archives. 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