This photo appeared in Vintage Muskoka.
The caption reads:
“The Parker children on the road after fishing at Bala, 10 July 1920.
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John Boyd photo.”
Bala was settled by Thomas Burgess in 1868. Thomas Burgess opened a sawmill and store to serve the area’s scattered settlers. Thomas Burgess named it after the town of Bala in Wales with which it is officially twinned. Located on the Canadian Shield, it proved unsuitable for farming, and its fortunes declined as logging became less economically viable. Railway connections helped to re-establish the village as a popular location for summer resorts.
In 1914, the town incorporated with Burgess’s son as the first mayor, making it the smallest incorporated town in Canada.
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