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In the warm sun of the long Georgian Bay days of summer, little Pointeau Baril is kept busy catering to the needs of the colony of summer cottagers wh(...)
In the warm sun of the long Georgian Bay days of summer, little Pointeau Baril is kept busy catering to the needs of the colony of summer cottagers wh(...)

In the warm sun of the long Georgian Bay days of summer, little Pointeau Baril is kept busy catering to the needs of the colony of summer cottagers wh(...)

Date8/14/1937
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Original Toronto Star caption: In the warm sun of the long Georgian Bay days of summer; little Pointeau Baril is kept busy catering to the needs of the colony of summer cottagers who live on the Thirty Thousand Islands; to which it is the gateway. In the RIGHT FOREGROUND Percival V. Woodward's storage garage for islanders' cars may be seen. Three years ago the first automobile came on the scene.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0107671F
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