When did your family first come to the Halls Hawk Lakes area?
- Everyone has a story about how your family first came to the area. What’s your story?
- How did your family come to own property in the Halls Hawk Lakes area?
- What are the changes that have happened over the years?
- What are the stories you want the next generation to remember?
Submit your story to jm4hamilton@gmail.com along with any photos you might have. If you are not a writer, no worries, contact Joan Hamilton at the email address to make arrangements to tell your story.
When did your family first come to the Halls Hawk Lakes area?
- Everyone has a story about how your family first came to the area, what’s your story?
- How did your family come to own property in the Halls Hawk Lakes area?
- What are the changes that have happened over the years?
- What are the stories you want the next generation to remember?
Submit your story to jm4hamilton@gmail.com along with any photos you might have. If you are not a writer, no worries, contact Joan Hamilton at the email address to make arrangements to tell your story.
Cottage Tales
National Volunteer Week April 16-22
HHLPOA is proud to say that Mateya, (at right in the photo), who is known along with her sister, Siena, as the “Firewood Girls”, has already signed up
All men respond- The early days of the Stanhope Fire Department
It’s said that a volunteer fire department is the backbone of a community and in Stanhope, no truer words could be spoken. After years of Council cons
Memories of Little Hawk from the Barbers
By Janie Barber Janie Barber on McLaughlin’s Beach, 1954 It’s funny how, when we are young, we take our family, possessions and lifestyles for granted
The true history of the McLaughlins on Halls Lake, Haliburton County
My grandfather, William Charles McLaughlin, liked to tell a good story. Generally known as Charlie, and more formally as W.C., Grandpa was proud of ma
Topple Art: The ups and downs of a landmark on the Hawks
The second version of Topple Art was erected in 1997. Photo
courtesy of the Topple Family Is it possible that every piece of art, every family story
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The Road Trip Board Game
Having spent parts of each summer at a cottage on Big Hawk Lake
since 1950, I have endured many a car trip from the big smoke to the lake. Most
were u
From England to the US to Canada to the US – Big Hawk Lake remains our constant
Diane and Richard at Big Hawk Lake, 1952 Our father, George Dennis, was truly an adventurer. At the age of 19, he had left London England where he was
Times Have Changed
Hauling Building Materials to Little Hawk, 1950. Photo courtesy of Neil Catherwood Left to right – Isaac Catherwood, his grandfather, Delbert Catherwo
Memories of Moore’s Island
Photo: Ross Lugsdin, Audrey Moore, William Campbell Moore and the old dog Pat, just before the land was cleared in 1938 My parents purchased our one a
So what happened to the parking at Little Hawk? The Early Years of Oakview Lodge and Little Hawk Resort
As early as 1912 Pinch family members Alpha Warren Jr., age 35, Norman, age 20 and Alpha Warren Sr., age 63, along with friend, Mr. Hudlett drove to t
Elvin Johnson Park
How often have you enjoyed this little jewel at the eastern side of Halls Lake, beside the Kennisis River? Perhaps you have taken your children there
Big Hawk Bridge Collapse – Sunday May 23, 1976
The construction of this bridge and causeway had only just been completed six weeks prior to the collapse. It was built by Curry Bishop of Haliburton
Camp Kawabi: The early years,1955-1965
“Oh the memories, oh the memories”, recalls Nancy (Perry) Caron as she thinks back to the mid 1950’s and early 1960’s. Nancy and her sister Jean Ann (
What would it be like to be one of the first non-Indigenous women who lived and loved in the Algonquin Highlands?
First of all imagine that your parents have come from Wales and settled on what had ‘perhaps the best agricultural potential’ in the area. In fact y
Driftwood: More than a piece of our past
Some Little Hawk Lakers may be old enough to remember the creatures that were fashioned out of driftwood that used to stand in front of Warren Pinch’s
Roots go back 100 years for this Pinch Family member
So what is it that brings the Pinch family to Little Hawk Lake as early as 1919? And what is it that keeps some of the Pinch family members coming bac
Memories of Little Hawk Lake
by Elsie Adelaide Pinch Gilson, July 2007 As I write this I must start back a few years from my birth to give my story some background. My parents,
“Most of the cottagers were once tourists”… except for Garth Mole’s family
Garth Mole is so much a “local” of the Hawk and Hall’s Lake area that he goes back three generations. The family were some of the first property owner
Ol’ Buttermilk Falls
Sometimes when you are researching a place, a small clue like a blank envelope starts the search. This envelope was donated by Joyce Mino to the Stanh
There is even more to the Jasim Lodge story and the early years at Halls Lake!
Thanks to the original post of Ol’ Buttermilk Falls story in January 2020, more information has been given to me by Graham Mino, the son of Joyce Mino
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Have you ever wondered about Norm Wallace Lane, and how it came to be named this? I am proud to tell you that Norm Wallace was my father, and togethe
Hawk Lake: The very, very, early times
The early history of Hawk Lake is shrouded in the mystery of time. Legend has it the indigenous peoples had a silver mine near the lake. An early trap
Government House, Big Hawk Lake
If you have ever paddled from Sherbourne Lake or even Little Hawk Lake towards the landing at Big Hawk, you may have had the same thought as John Loga
The Hollows at Big Hawk Lake
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What, My Parents Bought a Cottage?
My parents never intended to own a cottage! Too much work they said. Too much like living in the city they said. (We had rented one at Wasaga Beach.)
Big Hawk Lake Road
It was in the late 1940’s that land was made available for sale to the general public on Big Hawk Lake following the earlier 40’s and 30’s release of
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The best place on the planet
I first came to the Hawk Lakes in the early 1950’s. Prior to that time my parents and extended family had rented a cottage on Shadow Lake. In the ear
Name that lane!
In the 1990’s, Stanhope County along with several other adjacent counties, decided that each property should have a unique designation that would make
Roxburgh – The Halls Lake Shoreline Cottage with Three Lives
Built originally on the wrong lot in 1950. Almost destroyed by badly-planned and executed blasting by the Township in 1971. Burned to the ground on th
The Brereton (originally Higgins) Property
In the early 1940’s, a young school principal from Oshawa, named Edwin Higgins, frequently travelled north to the Haliburton area with a buddy and a c
Recollections From Summers at Halls Lake
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‘The Cottage’ by Chad Ingram
Originally published in the Minden Times on May 24, 2018. Republished here with permission from the author. My great-grandfather bought a lot on the e