2013 Photo Contest Winners

2013 saw 90 entrants, the most photo submissions ever! – And – they are wonderful! Thank you to all who submitted.  You can see all the photos in the Gallery. It was a difficult choice among such diverse images of lake experiences. However, our panel , wh…

Kay and Don Brundage Cottage

Kay and Don Brundage 274 North Shore Road Anglessea Con 11 Pt Lot 6.7 29R1710 Part 2, 17 Ptshore Rd allow Skootamatta Lake, irreg. We purchased the land in 1978 from Mr. Ballantyne and several mortgage companies. The property (about 1500 feet of shoreli…

Mike , Bruce and Glenn Bible, Lynn, Laurie, and Bessie Burnett Cottage

Mike , Bruce and Glenn Bible, Lynn, Laurie, and Bessie Burnett Big Island (currently named Bible Island)My Grandfather came to the Lake in the early 20’s. The original cottage, built in the 30’s, burned down. A second cottage, built in the 40’s was not us…

Donald A. Bailey and Hannah J. Bailey Cottage

Donald A. Bailey and Hannah J. Bailey 2017 Hughes Landing Road Anglesea Con 11 mpPt Lot 13 irreg. The original owners, Robert and Edna Dunlop, sold it to Frederick David Bingham and Mary Elizabith Bingham in November 1947 who then sold it to us in 1963.…

Eleanor Aass Cottage

Eleanor Aass 1397 Jacques Bay Road Our cottage was built in the summer of 1957. We are the original owners in 2012. My brother, Gordon Giffiths was a mining engineer, working for a Toronto based company. This company had hired some prospectors to check …

History of the Stewart Cottage

By Malcolm Stewart The Stewart cottage is situated on 2-acre Masson Island named after the original owners, Thomas M. and May C. Masson, who owned it from 1926 to 1956. The island lies about 50 metres west of the peninsula at the northeast corner of Bible…

The Hughes General Store

By Nancy Kallina The Hughes General Store was the setting for many memories that were formed on the lake. And always central to those memories was Georgina and Stan Hughes. ―The store‖ was there for emergency needs or as the natural destination for lazy…

The Hughes of Hughes Landing Road

By Nancy Kallina Sheldrake Bay, on the southwest end of Skootamatta Lake was developed by cottagers in the 1960‘s. However, for over a decade before this, a little white cottage stood alone in what was at that time, primeval forest.Stan Hughes, a descenda…

A. Douglas Alkenbrack - Memories of a Local MP

By Nancy Kallina The winter of 1978 was unusual, quite cold but with little snow. As a result the lake froze over to create a wonderful enormous skating rink. While out for a skate, my mother met another woman who she likely would not have met otherwise -…

A. Douglas Alkenbrack - Memories of a Daughter

By Eleanor Grennell June 2nd, 2012 will mark 100 years since Douglas Alkenbrack’s birth. He was born in Rydalbank in northern Ontario near Saulte St. Marie. His father Claude left Southern Ontario to work with his brother Roy in a lumber camp near Rydalba…