Keeping Kids Off the Road: Gate Separating Falcon Lodge From Highway 46

Kim Tuckett Collection
Date: 1950s
This gate was used to keep children and pets staying at Falcon Lodge from darting out onto busy Highway 46. “Remarkably as a kid, I took it for granted that cars would pass by the cottage at 60 miles per hour (almost 100 kilometres per hour),” remembers David Wires, whose family maintained a summer home not far from the Falcon Lodge property. “I expect it frightened parents.”