Where is baptiste lake

Campers will be required to call the County Admin Office to request a cancellation. The maximum occupancy period is fourteen 14 consecutive days in each campground; campers must leave the campground for no less than seventy-two 72 hours in order to return.

Each campsite is allowed two 2 vehicles. Directions From Athabasca. Athabasca County Office recreation athabascacounty. Main Office: Toll Free: Many of the early settlers worked in logging camps during the winter, from the first snow to the spring thaw, to add to their meager income from questionable farmland.

In order to be able to drive logs down the river, the company built the first dam at the lower end of the lake in , approximately one kilometer above where High Falls dam is today. The rising water connected the upper and lower basins of the lake, creating islands where none before existed, and making the log drive easier.

This also had the effect of increasing flooding in Bancroft, and in a second dam, built of cement by Ontario Hydro and still visible near the current dam , replaced the old wooden structure. Flooding persisted, and in the current High Falls dam was built, which has solved the flooding problems, for the most part. Bailey bought out Jennings, and when Bailey moved to start a mill in Haliburton, Martin and his brother Garfield purchased the company, forming Martin Brothers Lumber Company.

In , they purchased the Hughes Mill and operated two mills on Baptiste Lake employing up to people. One mill was on the site of the current Baptiste Lake Marina. When his son Grenville bought the upper mill in , Whitney dismantled the lower mill, and created major cottage developments on new roads named Marina Road, McAllister Island, and Golden Shores.

Under the direction of Grenville Martin, the Harcourt operation expanded, and G. Martin Company grew to become the largest producer of hardwood in Canada. The company closed following the death of Grenville Martin, who perished in a private airplane accident in The earliest settlers to Hasting County were United Empire Loyalists who were allied with the British during the American Revolution, but few of them ventured as far north as Baptiste Lake.

It was not until the s and s that waves of immigrants, many of them escaping the Irish potato famine, chose to live in the newly surveyed townships in northern Hastings County. Names such as Wicklow and McClure attest to the region's Irish heritage. Prompted by government advertisements of prosperity and rural serenity, posted in Britain and Canadian cities, and offers of free land acres, offered under the terms of The Free Grant and Homestead Act, , settlers pushed their way north.

Under the terms of the legislation, settlers had to be 18 years of age, build a log house of 20' by 18' within four years, and have at least 12 acres under cultivation within four years. Roofs were made of bark and log walls were filled in with clay and whitewashed.

Colonization roads, such as the Peterson Road, were built and opened areas for settlement. On December 8, , "more than Freeholders and Resident Householders" petitioned the County of Hastings for the right to amalgamate, and five communities were consolidated into one Municipal Corporation. He received the first land grant, believed to be in the area of Lavallee Bay, and as such the lake was renamed Baptiste Lake from Long Lake. His son, John Baptiste, also received a land grant and settled midway on the channel on the north shore of the main basin.

One of John's daughters, Mary, married Frank Lavalley and then built a home in the area that was then known as Lavalley Bay. William Mulcahey, an Irishman, is believed to be the first non-Aboriginal resident on the lake.

In the late s, on the brow of a hill on the south shore of Baptiste Lake, he cleared land for farming. Further to the east, he built a large and elegant home, which now continues as the main lodge of Birch Cliff Lodge. Five of those initial tourists banded together and purchased the first cottage lots. Mulcahey built a general store shortly thereafter on the hill overlooking Baptiste Station below.

He provided a dining room for loggers, trainmen and travelers passing through, in addition to boarding rooms located above the store and boxcar cabins located nearby for overflow guests. Later, he sold the store to Hiram and Elizabeth Grant, who with their daughter Mabel ran the store and post office for many years before they sold it in turn to Bruce Montgomery in Under new ownership in by George and Susan Poulton, the old store was demolished and a new, railway- themed facility established Country Fare Inn , with a general store, a restaurant, and guest rooms.

By , with a store, a school at the top of Station Hill, a church on Bowen Road, and new settlers arriving, Mulcahey's vision of a village on Baptiste Lake was fulfilled It should be noted that the church was moved, board by board, from its place on the hill and rebuilt on its present location on land donated by Mrs. Hiram [Elizabeth] Grant. Baptiste Lake is very large and has complex bays, shoals and shoreline.

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