The Victoria Inn (originally The Willows)
In 1902, the Canadian artist (but living in New York), Gerald Hayward, a summer resident in the Gore’s Landing area, hired the local boat builder and craftsman Fred Pratt to construct a waterfront summer house on the edge of the village. Gerald provided some sketches and requirements for a ‘Shingle’ style home popular along the [...]
Poet Archibald Lampman
Poet Archibald Lampman spent part of his life in Gore’s Landing and wrote this Ode to Gore’s Landing Meet Me in Gore’s Landing Meet me in Gore’s Landing on a Sunday afternoon. At Rice Lake House or Harris Store, We’ll rent a small canoe, We’ll drift along the shore line, On shady Spook, we’ll dine. [...]
Catharine Parr Traill and Susanna Moodie continued..
Charlotte Gray, wrote of Catharine and Susannah, in Sisters in the Wilderness, having researched the volumes of correspondence and their personal papers held in the National Archives of Canada. “I learned of Susanna’s quiet competence, even as she put on paper her sense of helplessness in the woods. I read about the disasters and family [...]
Catharine Parr Traill and Susanna Moodie– chroniclers of Northumberland-Kawartha heritage
Catharine and Susanna came to the frontier landscape of rural Ontario in the early 1800’s, to meet challenges far greater than anything they would have known living in genteel poverty in England. They faced childbirth alone in the woods and dealt with the threat of forest fires, wild animals, frostbite and starvation. Both were established [...]
