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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-04-17, Page 16M1 /A GODERICWSLONONsput, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1969 Early -day logging camp is the focal point of .1,500 -acre Centennial Park undertaken by Port•Arthur as this Canadian Lakehead community's development to mark the nation's 100th FOR. YOUR .FIRE INSURANCE See or Phone MALCOLM-MATHERS GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT 46 WEST ST. 524-9442 • birthday in 1967. The camp is a' complete restoration of one, existent locally in 1910 and in its communal `cookhouse visitors can eat a hefty lumberjack meal. Old .logging camp highlights. gew �ntario park ..Port Arthur: Visitors to this northern Ontario city's new Centennial Park= get to tour an early day logging camp and in its communal cook house eat a hefty lumberjack meal. The campis the dotal point of a 1,500 -acre development undertaken by the Canadian Lakehead community to mark the nation's 100th birthday two years ago. While it is called Camp 67 for the year, it is a complete restoration of one existent locally in 1910 and is authentic even to its eight -seater privy, 50 punishing yards, from the bunkhouse. Since pulp and' paper is the .province's number one industry, there are hundreds of logging camps. scattered throughout Ontario's spravilling north. But because these . are located in, remote wilderness regions, few ---,other. than the adventurous traveller would ever get to see one. Infinite care was taken, therefore, to make this one the real McCoy, with a few added touches of visitor interest. One ' of these is a logging museum displaying photos and artifacts` of surrounding camps and logging tools from the industry's beginning. Another is a stable which housed the sleigh -drawing horses of an earlier day, with collars and harnesses hanging on pegs beside empty stalls. Prior to mechanization every camp had to have a blacksmith Phone 524-9521 ROY N. BENTLEY t Public Accountant 4 Britannia Rd. E. Goderich, ,Onta`rio elfacide#4. STUDIO Specializing .in .. . r • Weddings • Children Single or Group Portraits; and Passports 524-8717 118 at. David God•rlch shop to tend, to the horses and maintain logging equip`rner� t�. This camp, too, has a blacksmith shop, with a veteran smithy working on weekends. In the bunkhouse, you'll see where men slept under just two allotted woolen blankets on mattresses filled with moss or spruce boughs. And where, due to, crowded conditions and lack of privacy, residents had to undergo morning ablutions four at a time. ` The call of the wild beckoned thousands of Finnish .immigrants to Ontario's north before the turn of the century and their - influence is reflected at Camp 67. by an original Finnish• steam bath. In this crude 1910 sauna, however, it was customary for users to induce more weat by whipping their bodies with birch saplings before plunging in ,the frigid river. Like the park itself the camp is free to visitors. Bring a hamper, if you like, and sit at a picnic table. But if you happen to be ravenously hungry, don't it downwnd from the cookhouse or you might toss .your sandwiches away. Typical of the human fare served at a backwoods logging camp is the meal you get at Camp 67 --- hearty main courses of meat and potatoes, homemade bread and cakes and pies in variety. And it's all you can eat for one price which, at $2 for adults and $1.25 for children at lunch and $3 for grown-ups and $1.50 for kids at dinner, gives dining out new meaning. Lunch is 11 to 2, dinner 5 to 8, .and just as it's done in a real camp, diners are summoned by triangular bell, rattled by the cook himself. Hungry or not, a tour of Centennial Park is a must on that Lakehead visa, if only to break the' journey by a cooling -, stroll ':along • shaded pathways. The youngsters will delight at the children's farm and (playground. And sportsmen will drool at the park's latest acquisition -- a series of spring -fed pools swarming with trout. But leave your rod in the car, they're only for viewing. The Canadian Lakehead, comprised of Port Arthur and its sister city,, Fort William is the western terminus of the St. Lawrence Seayvay and Canada's , third largest port. On the Lake Superior route of the Trans -Canada Highway, both communities • offer fine accommodation, lively nightlife and ' 'a a host of unusual attractions. Notable among the latter are Mount- McKay, one of the province's tallest mountains, and nearby Kakabeka Falls, whose spectacular 128 -foot drop makes i1, the "Niagara of the North." it's the Lord Simcoe Hotel in Toronto. You'll find your party. banquet or meeting more enjoyable and successful wb.en you hold it at the Lord SiincoplFriend " service that caters to your every wish at sensible prices. Call the Simcoe ... We get in the spirit of things, it's the. orct iretc.oe del University and King Streets, Tel, 362'11848 SINE S OUBLE, PASSES TOTHE PARK THEATRE wLt— NEW GODERICH RESTAURANT Steak House and Tavern THIS SPACE RESERVED FOR YOUR AD ' * FRIGIDAIRE * WESTINGHOUSE •• .GIBSON * H'OOVER Sales and Service Marr:Shaw RR 6, Goderich.-. • o GERRY'S APPLIANCES -The Square — Godfericti low Owned and Operated 4,4 nv I:hurk Ip'wpll FUNERAL HOME LODGE FUNERAL HOME The Names Of Six Signal -Stir Subscrib- ers Are To Be Found InCne-Of-These Ads Now Showing SAT., SUN., MON:, TUES. °od- PRODUCTION A BUD YORKIN. NORMAN FEAR 0 o o 0 o a° ED RAID 0- �0Dace ' Robert C. 'McCallum ° Director 65_. Montreal St. 524-7345 BOOKS & STATIONERY PAINT, WALLPAPER Cards. For. • Alt Occasions ___... • Gifts • Books • Stationery Supplies • Records ANDERSON S -- -BOOK-CENTRE _. BUILDING MATERIAL GODERICH Y BUILDING CENTRE 524.8383 Cambric at Anyhow • PAINT t" 'WALLPAPER CARPETS - • NILE" • .. 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SALES and ERVICE 524-9432 RIV_ETT'S TELEVISION — RADIO 34 The Square Goderich I RAVEL SERVICES lip Ltiar't1 i'ltlltak' Mrs. Geo. W. Schaefer 131 McDonald St. YOUR COMPLETE TRAVEL SERVICE • CODERICH 524-836'6 THIS SPACE RESERVED 1 FOR YOUR 'A'D / THIS SPACE RESERVED FOR YOUR AD THIS SPACE RESERVED FOR YOUR Ab or ma Nosimil$N1.111111..0111111.1•111,1011.1.11.... COIN OPERATED - DRY—CLEANING n S Pounds -$3.00 Open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Daily Except Sunday also Friday Evening Fully Attended ti West Street LAUNDROMAT , 54 'Witt , st. -3244953° Bud Oke 220 Wellington St. S. Footwear For The Family SHOPPE Kingston St, Goderich 524-9174 CONTESTRULES Each week thenames and address** of 6 subseriberi will appear in the Busin.ss Directory. --Look tor your name and address In the ads. --Take the Susi'tiess Directory and suitable IdditttIfkatt•e- to the advertiser in whose ed your name appeared and ---Pick 'up your passes by Saturday night clash. Only tub*cilb.t ' tp the Signal•Star are •li�ibla. 4.10