Category: Buildings & Structures

Raising Mitchell’s Barn

Neighbours work together to raise Mitchell’s barn.

Floating sawlogs through the Fenelon Locks

Sawlogs were common in navigable watercourses to the end of the nineteenth century, and made travel difficult for boats when they accumulated.

Piling Grounds to Subdivision

Row upon row of lumber at Mossom Boyd’s yard have become rows of houses at Bobcaygeon’s Port 32.

George Thompson’s Big Log Jam

This 1886 sketch shows R. C. Smith’s Red Mill on the left, opposite the village grist mill.

Kent Street, Lindsay

Kent Street, Lindsay

A Train Crash on Victoria Avenue

The railway once ran up the centre of this Lindsay street.

W.G. Jackett & Sons reconstructing the Fenelon Lock

The original wooden lock required constant repair, it was rebuilt of stone in 1913 and concrete in 1963.

John Livingstone

John Livingstone with his sleigh in front of his neighbour’s house on Oak Street. John grew up in the Gould House (Blue Oak) and later purchased a retirement […]

The Jordan House

Maryboro Lodge

An Anne Langton sketch and the modern Fenelon Museum

29 Oak Street

Former home of pharmacist Alvin Gould, it was painted blue by University of Toronto professor Joaquin Kuhn, then became known as the Blue Oak Bed and Breakfast