Photo from the Gravenhurst Archives.
This photo appeared in a 2019 Muskoka Today article along with a history of ice collecting in Gravenhurst.
As per the article, some 600 box cars were filled with ice each winter and ice collecting became a massive industry during the Second World War and after.
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