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Title: The playgrounds of Canada; a short treatise on tourist, fishing and hunting resorts reached by the Grand Trunk Railway System
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada
Subjects: Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada Fishing Fishing Hunting Hunting Railroads Camps
Publisher: (Montreal): Grand Trunk Railway System, General Passenger Dept.
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Queen's University - University of Toronto Libraries

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t ishere the tourist takes the steamer for Sturgeon Point, Bobcaygeon,Fenelon Falls, Rosedale, Coboconk and all the innumerable inter-mediate resorts and camps on the hospitable shores of Sturgeon,Pigeon, Cameron and Balsam Lakes. Kinmount, the most northerly point in the Kawartha LakesDistrict, lies thirty miles from Lindsay. The town is becomingmore popular each year as a tourist centre and is the point ofingress to a number of charming lakes noted for their scenic beautyand excellent fishing. Scugog Lake, one of the Kawartha Lakes, is the southerngateway to a continuous chain of lake and river navigation in aland of plenty and pleasant scenery. In this lake is Scugog Island,containing 8,000 acres of well-cultivated farms, including the Indianvillage of the Massauga tribe, with a reserve of 800 acres. Scugog Lake, only sixteen miles from Lake Ontario, is 578 feetabove that lake. Scugog Lake is connected by river navigationthrough Lindsay to Sturgeon Lake and other connected lakes to
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30 Grand Trunk Railway System Lakefield, north of Peterborough, a distance of about ninety milesfrom Port Perry. This lake is known far and wide as a fishingresort. Maskinonge and bass are plentiful, and duck shootingis good in season. Port Perry is justly noted for four things: fishing, shooting,boating and picturesque scenery. It is located on Lake Scugog,at the head waters of the Kawartha Lakes, forty miles from Toronto. The town can be reached readily by rail, and boats can easilybe shipped there, as the Grand Trunk siding runs to the watersedge at Whitby Harbor, on Lake Ontario, eighteen miles distant,and the regular line runs right past the wharf at Port Perry. It has the best wild duck and goose shooting ground in Ontario. Scugog Lake is well stocked with maskinonge and bass, it beingthe best fish feeding ground in Ontario, according to expert testimony. Port Perry is the starting point for the lovely Kawartha Lakestrip, which is the finest from a scenic point of view in Ontari

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