Category: Residential

Piling Grounds to Subdivision

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

A Train Crash on Victoria Avenue

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

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

An Empire Vanished

The Steamer Ogemah in front of the Big House, Bobcaygeon. Mossom Boyd and his heirs owned the village of Bobcaygeon, founded one of Canada’s most successful timber businesses, […]

A Houseboat Becomes a Home

When the regions’ first houseboat retired from marine service, a found a new life as a family home on Front Street, Bobcaygeon. It was launched at the turn […]

F. Kelly’s

This composite combining pictures from present day and a century prior, shows Foster Kelly’s home, now owned by his daughter in law, Freda Kelly. The sidewalk in front […]

Juniper Island

Bobcaygeon’s Main Street home to Bobcaygeon’s Fire Hall. Vicars Cosh’s Home (built on the site where Bobcaygeon’s famous Forest House hotel burnt), and the Bobcaygeon Independent newspaper office. […]

Lockmaster’s House

Originally located at the head of the Lock (Chamber of Commerce site), it is now the John Street home of Marlyn McGhee.

The Yates family at their Lorneville schoolhouse home