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La Cloche Whiskey Smugglers & American Prohibition
Americans and Prohibition The Prohibition years in the United States lasted from 1920 until 1933 and as well as giving rise to the American gangster it became the law that...
La Cloche Whiskey Smugglers & American Prohibition
Americans and Prohibition The Prohibition years in the United States lasted from 1920 until 1933 and as well as giving rise to the American gangster it became the law that...

A. Y. Jackson at Grace Lake Describing His Pain...
A wonderful 1941 documentary about A. Y. Jackson by the Academy Award winner Radford Crawley. Watch Jackson and prospector Keith McIver leave Willisville to canoe and portage to Grace Lake....
A. Y. Jackson at Grace Lake Describing His Pain...
A wonderful 1941 documentary about A. Y. Jackson by the Academy Award winner Radford Crawley. Watch Jackson and prospector Keith McIver leave Willisville to canoe and portage to Grace Lake....

How Killarney Provincial Park Began!!
How Killarney Provincial Park began!! Sheer devilment by Newland Spreadborough!! From Cottage Life's 1993 story about the Spreadborough Cottage Yacht Registry and an interview with 84 year old Margaret (Spreadborough)...
How Killarney Provincial Park Began!!
How Killarney Provincial Park began!! Sheer devilment by Newland Spreadborough!! From Cottage Life's 1993 story about the Spreadborough Cottage Yacht Registry and an interview with 84 year old Margaret (Spreadborough)...

A. Y. Jackson at Grace Lake in the 1930s
Grace Lake was a favourite of Group of 7 artist A. Y. Jackson and here is a portion of a letter he wrote to his relative Naomi Jackson Groves on...
A. Y. Jackson at Grace Lake in the 1930s
Grace Lake was a favourite of Group of 7 artist A. Y. Jackson and here is a portion of a letter he wrote to his relative Naomi Jackson Groves on...

Finding Carmichael's Rock
In 2005 Jim & Sue Waddington discovered that Carmichael's Rock, on a Grace Lake ridge, had been vandalized. It was gone!In July, 2006 Jim & Sue Waddington along with Kerry...
Finding Carmichael's Rock
In 2005 Jim & Sue Waddington discovered that Carmichael's Rock, on a Grace Lake ridge, had been vandalized. It was gone!In July, 2006 Jim & Sue Waddington along with Kerry...

Arthur Lismer in McGregor Bay
Five members of Canada's Group of 7 painted in the La Cloche area of Willisville, Grace Lake, Nellie Lake, Iroquois Bay and McGregor Bay. Hundreds of sketches and many, many...
Arthur Lismer in McGregor Bay
Five members of Canada's Group of 7 painted in the La Cloche area of Willisville, Grace Lake, Nellie Lake, Iroquois Bay and McGregor Bay. Hundreds of sketches and many, many...