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Ice hut shantytown: More than 4,000 ice fishing huts cover Lake Simcoe each winter
Ice hut shantytown: More than 4,000 ice fishing huts cover Lake Simcoe each winter

Ice hut shantytown: More than 4,000 ice fishing huts cover Lake Simcoe each winter

Date1/27/1988
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Original Toronto Star caption: Ice hut shantytown: More than 4;000 ice fishing huts cover Lake Simcoe each winter.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0006971F
Ice hut shantytown: More than 4,000 ice fishing huts cover Lake Simcoe each winter
Ice hut shantytown: More than 4,000 ice fishing huts cover Lake Simcoe each winter
1/27/1988
Winding up the season. Ice fishing huts, by law, must be off lakes by the end of March, so the last of them were being removed from Lake Simcoe near J(...)
Winding up the season. Ice fishing huts, by law, must be off lakes by the end of March, so the last of them were being removed from Lake Simcoe near J(...)
3/31/1975
Luck and lunch are both cold. Fishing huts still dot the thick ice of Lake Simcoe near Pefferlaw, but Stanley Black of Manilla, near Sunderland, prefe(...)
Luck and lunch are both cold. Fishing huts still dot the thick ice of Lake Simcoe near Pefferlaw, but Stanley Black of Manilla, near Sunderland, prefe(...)
1/28/1976
On ice: Danny Brunato of Thornhill, left, and Bill Linders of Bill's Fishing Huts at Virginia Beach Marina, peek out of their fishing hut door with a sample of the day's catch
On ice: Danny Brunato of Thornhill, left, and Bill Linders of Bill's Fishing Huts at Virginia Beach Marina, peek out of their fishing hut door with a sample of the day's catch
1/11/1989
So who needs a hut? Really making tracks, Edward Tiltins of Toronto goes ice fishing by driving his car right out onto the middle of Lake Simcoe and s(...)
So who needs a hut? Really making tracks, Edward Tiltins of Toronto goes ice fishing by driving his car right out onto the middle of Lake Simcoe and s(...)
2/13/1974
The Great Lake Simcoe Ice Fishing Derby started its 11th season Saturday and fish hut operators Terry reddings (left), Murray Tuck (riding the all-ter(...)
The Great Lake Simcoe Ice Fishing Derby started its 11th season Saturday and fish hut operators Terry reddings (left), Murray Tuck (riding the all-ter(...)
1/16/1992
Star photographer Jeff Goode used a Nikon F3 with 85mm lens exposure 500th at F8 to shoot this strange sportsman on Lake Simcoe who decided to fish outside of his ice hut and brave the winter winds
Star photographer Jeff Goode used a Nikon F3 with 85mm lens exposure 500th at F8 to shoot this strange sportsman on Lake Simcoe who decided to fish outside of his ice hut and brave the winter winds
4/19/1983
Hard-water habit: Jamie Eillis dips a line in a Lake Simcoe ice hut while Karyn James looks on
Hard-water habit: Jamie Eillis dips a line in a Lake Simcoe ice hut while Karyn James looks on
1/21/1993
Ken Heyink (Henk's huts) Jackson's point
Ken Heyink (Henk's huts) Jackson's point
2/3/1995
Armed with rods and saws, a group of hopeful fishermen, just specks in distance, head to an ice hut to begin the day's sport
Armed with rods and saws, a group of hopeful fishermen, just specks in distance, head to an ice hut to begin the day's sport
1/31/1982
Angling through the ice. Ice fishing has finally started near Keswick, where the ice on Lake Simcoe is eight inches thick. K. Matys of Toronto takes h(...)
Angling through the ice. Ice fishing has finally started near Keswick, where the ice on Lake Simcoe is eight inches thick. K. Matys of Toronto takes h(...)
1/21/1975
Gone fishing: Danny Brunato (left) and Bill Linders show off some of the early catch ice fishing at Virginia Beach on Lake Simcoe
Gone fishing: Danny Brunato (left) and Bill Linders show off some of the early catch ice fishing at Virginia Beach on Lake Simcoe
1/10/1989