"Are We There Yet?" Highway-Based Tourism In Kawartha Lakes "Are We There Yet?" Highway-Based Tourism In Kawartha Lakes Kirkfield & District Historical Society
The Kawartha Lakes Tourist Association (KLTA) was “comprised of representatives of businesses large and small in the Counties of Peterborough and Victoria, as well as the municipal councils […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 Lodge was originally built to accommodate guests visiting Sir William and Lady Mackenzie at their palatial estate on the north side of Highway 46 in 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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]