Top Stories of 2021: Wayback Wednesday

Top Stories of 2021: Wayback Wednesday

Since our launch just six short months ago, South Muskoka Doppler has been overwhelmed by the response from the community. We can’t thank our readers, advertisers, contributors and newsletter subscribers enough.

As 2021 draws to a close we’re taking a look back at some of our most popular articles thus far.

Today we look at our most-read Wayback Wednesday clips:

A skate down main street

Dec. 8: We have little information for this photograph from the Gravenhurst Archives, except that it’s two young ladies skating down Muskoka Road, possibly in the 1940s or 1950s.


Bracebridge High School class 1927

Oct. 6: This is a photo of the 1927 class Form II from Bracebridge High School, Bracebridge, Ont.

First row: Ruby McCulley, Agnes Hampson, Helena Morgan, Minnie A. Crowe, Dorothy Nicholson, Eleanor Tobin, Marion Tillson, Beth Kirkpatrick, Elsie McRoberts, Margaret Law.

Second Row: Lillian Loughey(?), Mabel Kirbyson, Elsie Pepper, Kathryn Pelletier, Pearl Walker, Eva Ecclestone, Grace White, Lesla Stephens, Winnie Moore.

Third Row: Bruce Haddox, Austin Mc…, Alvin Peacock, Lawford Heppingstall, Tom Lowe, Jack Johnstone, Gerard E. Simmons, Donald Reynolds.

Fourth Row: Jack Elliott, William Parker, Jack Parker (?), Fred Hammel, Douglas P. Cowan, Robert Crozier.


Manitoba Street fire 1980s (?)


Dec. 15: The corner of Chancery Lane and Manitoba Street in Bracebridge following a fire in 1980s(?).

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