At last, some progress worth looking at...!
This is intended for a future module, but I could not resist working on it. I received the Inn somewhat complete - at least the main walls and roof, although in the picture it is only temporarily assembled with tape.
The Highland Inn was built at Cache Lake in Algonquin Park in 1908 by the Grand Trunk, shortly after it acquired the Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound Railway which ran through the park. (Lumber baron JR Booth had built the railway.)
The Inn was originally just a dining room, kitchen, and staff quarters, with guests residing in canvas tents. Over the years, a number of additions were made. It reached the form I am modelling sometime in the 1920s, about the time that Canadian National Railways was formed (absorbing Grand Trunk, among others).
The Inn was closed during the early 1930s depression, but reopened in 1938 and remained in business until the Government elected to demolish it (and other camps) in the 1950s. Only one original camp remains - Bartlett Lodge - which is across the bay from the site of the Highland Inn.
Andrew
This is intended for a future module, but I could not resist working on it. I received the Inn somewhat complete - at least the main walls and roof, although in the picture it is only temporarily assembled with tape.
The Highland Inn was built at Cache Lake in Algonquin Park in 1908 by the Grand Trunk, shortly after it acquired the Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound Railway which ran through the park. (Lumber baron JR Booth had built the railway.)
The Inn was originally just a dining room, kitchen, and staff quarters, with guests residing in canvas tents. Over the years, a number of additions were made. It reached the form I am modelling sometime in the 1920s, about the time that Canadian National Railways was formed (absorbing Grand Trunk, among others).
The Inn was closed during the early 1930s depression, but reopened in 1938 and remained in business until the Government elected to demolish it (and other camps) in the 1950s. Only one original camp remains - Bartlett Lodge - which is across the bay from the site of the Highland Inn.
Andrew