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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: […]

A Vintage Gas Pump Still Operates at the Balsam Lake Park Store

When Balsam Lake Provincial Park opened in 1967, Highway 46 was re-routed around the park. A Texaco gas station immediately west of the park boundary began serving customers […]

Homemade Baking In Rosedale: Alta Oliver and Her Famous Pies

Alta Oliver, whose husband operated a well-patronized service station in Rosedale, was famous for her homemade pies. Granddaughter Linda Oliver remembers: “Grandma baked pies and sold them to […]

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 […]

Filling Up at J.B. Oliver’s Service Station, Rosedale

James Bruce Oliver (1896-1970) owned and operated this picturesque stone service station in Rosedale through the 1940s and 1950s. In addition to dealing in Shell gasoline and oil, […]

Finding a Place to Park: Automotive Traffic on Nelson Street in Downtown Kirkfield

Highway 46 was known as Nelson Street within the village limits of Kirkfield. By the early 1930s, it was seeing more automotive traffic as cars grew in popularity […]

An Early Car Passes Under the Kirkfield Lift Lock

A group of men look on admiringly as a car passes beneath the Kirkfield Lift Lock. Initially bought by the very wealthy, the private automobile had by the […]

Coboconk Sees its First Car: Robert Callan’s Ford Model “T”

Among the first owners of a Model “T” in northwestern Kawartha Lakes were Robert A. Callan and J.E. Jackson, both of Coboconk. The finished cars were brought to […]

Travel by Dirt Road Through Coboconk

Early motorists had to contend with dirt roads which could be notoriously challenging to navigate, such as that in Coboconk. Eventually this route would be paved as part […]

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 […]

A Feat of Engineering: A Steamboat Being Locked Through the Kirkfield Lift Locks, Trent Valley Canal

This hand-tinted postcard shows the Kirkfield Lift Lock as it appeared during its first decade of operation. Opened in 1907, it remains the second-highest hydraulic lift lock in […]

“Ahoy, There!” The Stoney Lake Passes Through the Kirkfield Lift Lock

This Edwardian-era postcard depicts the Stoney Lake being locked through the Kirkfield Lift Lock not long after it opened for traffic in 1907. Launched in 1904, the Stoney […]