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Kim Tuckett Remembers Falcon Lodge

Recorded at the Kirkfield Museum, February 12, 2022 Interviewer: Ian McKechnie Videography: Ekaterine Alexakis Duration: 2:51 Kim Tuckett sitting in front of white wall. Text on screen reads: […]

Margaret Valentine Remembers Her Family’s Service Station

Recorded at the Kirkfield Museum, February 12, 2022 Interviewer: Ian McKechnie Videography: Ekaterine Alexakis Duration: 3:42 Margaret Valentine sitting in front of white wall. Text on screen reads: […]

Pumping Gas at Callan’s Shell Station, Coboconk

The Callan family operated a Shell station in Coboconk at the southwest corner of Highway 35 and Highway 46 (later Highway 48) starting in the 1920s. The original […]

Charlie Faulkner and Guests Pose in the Motorboat at Falcon Lodge on Balsam Lake

By the 1950s, tourists were plying the lakes in motorboats. Charlie Faulkner’s cedar-strip boat was powered by a Johnson outboard motor and regularly took Falcon Lodge guests out […]

“Choo, Choo!” Sounding the Whistle in Coboconk

By the mid-1950s, railway passenger service had become little more than a tourist attraction. No. 2644, one of the Canadian National Railway’s N-4-a class of locomotives built in […]

“Is It Here Yet?” Anticipating Train Time in Kirkfield

The Kirkfield station was typical of those constructed by the Toronto & Nipissing Railway. It replaced an earlier building in 1892 and outlived the railway, serving as a […]

“All Aboard!” Canadian National Railway Mixed Train Heads Northeast out of Kirkfield

The Canadian National Railway’s “mixed train” to Coboconk, seen here at Kirkfield in 1951, carried both freight and passengers. A typical mixed train had gondola cars laden with […]

Waiting for gas at the White Rose Service Station, Coboconk

Nathan and Gertrude Pearce owned and operated this service station at the northeast corner of Highway 35 and Highway 46 (later Highway 48) in Coboconk, Ontario. Opened in […]