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Say Cheese! The Oliver Family Poses for the Camera

The Sunday afternoon drive was a popular activity from the 1920s through the 1960s. Families like the Olivers of Rosedale would make an occasion out of their jaunt, […]

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 […]

Stopping for Gas at the Club Balsam Snack Bar, Rosedale

The Club Balsam Snack Bar was located on the west side of Highway 35 in the village of Rosedale. With its log construction, the snack bar evoked the […]

Ready to Hit the Road Again With Full Stomachs, Courtesy of Kirkfield’s Alexander Restaurant

The Alexander Restaurant, pictured here in the mid-1950s, was located just west of downtown Kirkfield and served both locals and tourists making their way east and west along […]

Motorists Stop in Downtown Coboconk for a Bite to Eat at the Kawartha Tea Room & Restaurant

The Kawartha Tea Room catered to both locals and tourists travelling through Coboconk on Highway 35 in the 1950s. It sold full-course meals, cheeseburgers and hamburgers, soft drinks, […]

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 […]

Relaxing at Falcon Lodge, Balsam Lake

Lakefront lodges appeared throughout northwestern Kawartha Lakes during the 1940s and 1950s. Most featured a main lodge house surrounded by several smaller cabins. The main house at Falcon […]

The Kirkfield Inn: “One of the Finest Places of its Kind in Canada”

Funded by Margaret Mackenzie and opened in 1913, the Kirkfield Inn was praised as being “one of the finest places of its kind in Canada, and should prove […]

Coboconk’s Famous Pattie House

The Pattie House had been a fixture in downtown Coboconk for about half a century by the time this photograph was taken during the Great Depression. Apart from […]

Locals Gather at the Campbell House Hotel, Kirkfield

Until the Kirkfield Inn opened on the same site in 1913, the Campbell House Hotel enjoyed a commanding presence in downtown Kirkfield. Distinguished by dichromatic brickwork and symmetrical […]

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: […]

Marg Valentine (née Moore) and Bill Simpson Wait for Motorists at Moore’s Service Station, Coboconk

Laurie Moore purchased Coboconk’s British-American service station from Harry Jackson in the 1920s. After Mr. Moore died in 1939, a family friend named Bill Simpson offered to help […]