The playgrounds of Canada; a short treatise on tourist, fishing and hunting resorts reached by the Grand Trunk Railway System (1913) (14572692898)

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Title: The playgrounds of Canada; a short treatise on tourist, fishing and hunting resorts reached by the Grand Trunk Railway System

Year: 1913 (1910s)

Authors: Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada

Subjects: Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada Fishing Fishing Hunting Hunting Railroads Camps

Publisher: (Montreal): Grand Trunk Railway System, General Passenger Dept.

Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Queen's University - University of Toronto Libraries

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ience and in beauty of location. Directly in front of the hotel is a magnificent bathing beach,absolutely safe for the smallest child. Contiguous to the hotelis a large dancing pavilion. Near by is a well-kept golf course. To the rear of the hotel is a beautifully wooded country, richin foliage and verdure, with ample room for tennis courts andcroquet lawns. The hotel is so arranged that every sleeping room is an outsideroom. The front and end rooms all command an unobstructedview of the lake, and the rear rooms overlook a gorgeous pictureof woodland scenery. Lake Huron Park is a charming pleasure ground, an idealcamping place, and affords pleasure facilities answering to everydesire. The beautiful pavilion overlooks the lake in view of allbathing, boating and fishing, also in view of the ships that passin the night, as well as by day; a spacious dancing floor and amplepiazza all the way around the building add to the attractions.An orchestra is provided from June to late September. 9

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Grand Trunk Railway System Adjoining Lake Huron Park is Wees Beach, where the GrandView Hotel offers accommodations for one hundred guests. Anumber of cottages are also available for rent. The cars of theSarnia Street Railway Company take the visitors to its doors. Woodrowe Beach, one and one-half miles north of the town ofSarnia, and accessible by trolley cars, is more of a family resort.There are thirty cottages located at this beach and a commodiousdining hall, where excellent meals and rooms are furnished at reason-able rates. The cottages are rented furnished from $75 to $125for the season, or unfurnished from $60 to $80. This is a beautifuland a convenient place for a summer home, with pure air, goodsafe bathing, fine fishing, and the best of boating. The cottagesare lighted by electric lights and have every convenience. Golfgrounds, croquet lawns, tennis courts and bowling greens are freeto the cottagers. On account of its privacy Woodrowe Beach isan ideal place for families wi

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