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Local History and Stories
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The River
Allen Markle For eons the river has followed this same route; this jagged seam in the countryside. Patiently carved by ages of grinding ice and…
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Big Red
Linda Gabris – Story Contest Submission The first time we set eyes on “Big Red”, father, mother and I were trudging through the freshly fallen…
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Two Secrets
Allen Markle Two Secrets There had been little reason for the coach to encourage this team to lay a beating on the opposition tonight. He…
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Lijah’s Story
Allen Markle Lijah’s Story I’d watched as Dad sharpened the star bit and glassed the polished sheen from the handle of his double-jack. You didn’t…
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Becoming a Park Warden – 3
Autobiography – Pt 3 – Louis Cotterchio LINK TO PART 1LINK TO PART 2 In the latter part of 1947, after spending a very busy,…
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With Dust Dancing
Personal Memoir – Allen Markle I should have been in bed and asleep, but once Herb had come to our house last evening, I had…
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Becoming A Park Warden – 2
Autobiography – Pt 2 – Louis Cotterchio LINK TO PART 1 In the summer of 1946, I officially started my work in Algonquin Park at…
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Becoming a Park Warden
Autobiography – Pt 1 – Louis Cotterchio This is the biography of a young man born in 1926. He grew up on a small farm…
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Main Street and Bridge
Excerpt – Pictures from the Past – Huntsville, Lake of Bays (p 33-34) The present bridge over the Muskoka River in Huntsville is the fourth…
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The Spring
Personal Memoir – Allen Markle There had been an argument between a couple of the guys on the lacrosse team; curiously, about the fine art…
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