During the 1930s all that remained of the first Festubert seasonal post office on a tiny Ontario island in Loon Lake, now known as Skootamatta Lake, was the building’s granite fireplace and foundation. The post office has been located in Mike Schwaeger’s frame house
A National Film Board documentary entitled ‘Log Driver’ by Raymond Garceau will be shown at our next General Meeting on January 15, 2024, at 1 pm. Everyone is welcome!
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This document outlines the progression of COVID-19 in Ontario and locally. The detailed timeline is by Kevin Nielsen of Global News. Local photos are included in the document.
The Flickr Cemetery website is a photograph archive of every gravestone within the cemeteries of the Cloyne and District Historical Society catchment area. High definition photos display the graves with an attempt to transcribe all details from each grave. This database of graves is easily searchable by entering the family name. You can search all […]
This document, written by Iain C. Taylor in 1969, was digitized by the Internet Archives in 2022. It portrays our area in 1969 and studies the impact of Bon Echo to the local economy.
Before the 1970s, there were basically no medical facilities here. Volunteers were trained through an emergency organization to do first response treatments at accident sites, for example.
Margaret Axford will be the guest speaker at the next Cloyne and District Historical Society general meeting on Monday, November 20th 1 pm at the Barrie Community Hall.
On Monday October 16th at 1PM in the Barrie Community Hall, the Cloyne & District Historical Society will host historian Chris Anstead. In his presentation “The colonization roads of Eastern Ontario, and the villages they produced”. One of those roads, of course, runs right by our Pioneer Museum. Come out and bring your friends.
Did you know that two made for cinema movies were filmed in the Cloyne area in 1976 and 1981? The movies ‘Surfacing’ and ‘The Far Shore’ were filmed with US and Canadian actors in Bon Echo and Skootamatta Lake. Why did the directors choose our area? What was the budget of the films? How did the actual filming affect individual property owners?