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EPISODE · Nov 2, 2020 · 24 MIN

Episode 3: A Walking History Tour of Rock Lake Station in Algonquin Park

from ALGONQUIN DEFINING MOMENTS · host Gaye Clemson

Episode 3: A Walking History Tour of Rock Lake Station in Algonquin Park This episode takes the visitor on a walking tour of what was once a bustling community of railwaymen, loggers, tourists and leaseholders and their families at Rock Lake in Algonquin Park. Today Rock Lake Campground is one of the largest campgrounds in Algonquin Park and unless one realizes that the road through it was once the railway bed, you'd never know that for almost 40 years a different Rock Lake existed. The tour takes Algonquin Park history or railway enthusiasts to several locales and shares, insight into the people and places that once existed there so long ago. You'll get introduced to William and Ida McCourt and Shawna Lodge, Billy Baulke and his cottages, Beulah Eady and her joy of music and dancing, and of course Gertrude Booth Fleck and the Fleck Estate and her daily fishing expeditions and of course the train station activities that were the center of the community. 

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