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Category: Cultivated Rural

Information Sheet, “This Abandoned Car Is On The Road To Recovery,” Ontario Ministry of the Environment, 1975

Information Sheet, “This Abandoned Car Is On The Road To Recovery,” Ontario Ministry of the Environment, 1975

By the 1970s many of the thousands of cars which took to the open road between the 1930s and 1950s had been traded in, scrapped, or parked in […]
Making Road Trips Faster and Smoother: An Ontario Department of Highways Crew Spreads Mulch Pavement on Highway 46 near Lorneville

Making Road Trips Faster and Smoother: An Ontario Department of Highways Crew Spreads Mulch Pavement on Highway 46 near Lorneville

In 1914, a gentleman named George H. Payne wrote a letter to the editor of the Lindsay Post urging municipalities to purchase a grader for use on every […]
Steam Shovel at Work on Highway 35 North, Rosedale

Steam Shovel at Work on Highway 35 North, Rosedale

Originally called the Cameron Road, the route running between Rosedale and Minden, Ontario, became known as Highway 35 on April 1, 1937. By the 1940s the section between […]
Mealtime on Mitchell Lake: The Shallamar Diner

Mealtime on Mitchell Lake: The Shallamar Diner

Famed aerial photographer Harry S. Oakman took this image of the Shallamar Diner around 1969. Operated by Ted and Wally Polomski in the late 1960s, Shallamar incorporated a […]
The Rosedale Motel

The Rosedale Motel

The Rosedale Motel was one of several motels which opened for business along Highway 35 North during the 1960s and 1970s. Others included the Mulberry House Motel north […]
Driving North Along Highway 35 Near Cameron Lake

Driving North Along Highway 35 Near Cameron Lake

This picture – taken in August of 1940 and originally published in the Department of Highways Ontario (DHO) Official Road Bulletin, issued on July 10 1941 – captures […]
Vice-Admiral Henry Vansittart’s estate on Balsam Lake

Vice-Admiral Henry Vansittart’s estate on Balsam Lake

Vice-Admiral Henry Vansittart (1779-1844) was possibly the first European to build a seasonal residence in what is now northwestern Kawartha Lakes. This drawing shows Balsam Lake and the […]