DH Museum The recipe book is a ‘collection of recipes from a lifetime of cooking’. Includes recipes from the kitchens of the first homes in the Muskoka/Haliburton Region of Central Ontario.
The following poem was written by M. Elizabeth Wettlaufer (Allan) McEachern and her sister Margaret Wettlaufer (Alexander) McKay ages 17 & 18. Margaret was married to Alexander McKay and living on Harvey Ave. Her sister Elizabeth came to stay with her and later married Allan McEachern and they lived at the corner of County Rd … Read more
My teenage summers were spent working at Camp Inawendawin on Paint Lake. The camp was owed by the Andersons who treated the staff like family. We worked hard in the kitchen and dining room 6 1/2 days each week with Wednesday afternoons off. Each Wednesday we rushed through our work in order to hitch -hike … Read more
This unique piece of engineering took place at Dorset, in Big Trading Bay, Lake of Bays in 1894. The task of the Tramway was to lift 400,000 pine logs over a 30 metres (90 feet) height of land, while moving them a distance of 2 km. At the Dorset end, a stone building was constructed to house the steam engine needed to power 2 … Read more
The following is the introduction from Jennie’s cookbook that she created. We are so very glad that she did!… I have worked as a cook for most of my life. My mama, Letitia Kernohan from Minden was a cook before she married my daddy. After she married and began her life on the farm, she … Read more
Did you know that area where the Dorset Scenic Tower is was once a farm? The first owner of the land was Charles Barker, who cleared the land from Hwy 35 in the area of the tower entrance up to the top of the hill, and grew a crop of hay. It’s hard to picture … Read more
Mail was delivered and posted in an interesting mode of travel back in the early days of Dorset. Mail was carried by any of the settlers, who might be going to Baysville and the Baysville Post Office, which was a good 16 or 17 miles away. They paddled a canoe or rowed a boat in the summer and in … Read more
ON NOVEMBER 1, 1957, IN LONG REACH, PICTON, ONTARIO, HISTORY WAS MADE. AT 8:38 A.M THE WORLD RECORD FOR FASTEST MAN ON WATER WAS ABOUT TO BE BROKEN. THE DRIVER WAS A MAN NAMED ART ASBURY DORSET RESIDENT, AND THE BOAT THAT WOULD ACCOMPLISH THIS FEAT WAS CALLED MISS SUPERTEST II. MISS SUPERTEST II WAS … Read more
The first time Lenly Barry had a tooth pulled out was by the Doctors and Dentists that used to come each year to hunt in the Dorset area. The doctors traveled to Dorset by boat. The Algonquin or the Ramona, then across the Portage on the little steam engine, The Portage Flyer, to the Iroquois, … Read more
The blog below is part of our Early Settlers 2015 Exhibit. Each year we ‘feature’ one of our early settlers in this exhibit space. Francis Harvey 1821 – 1903 In putting together this exhibit about Dorset’s first settler we wanted to try and find out more than the basic facts. We went on a hunt for … Read more
