Photo from the Gravenhurst Archives.
The Gravenhurst Citizens Parade heads down Muskoka Road in 1896.
Did you know? Gravenhurst was first known as McCabes Landing and later as Sawdust City. Gravenhurst was named by a postal official who was reading Gravenhurst or Thoughts on Good and Evil, a treatise by William Smith.
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