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| Cleveland's House, Lake Rosseau - copyright Gabriele Wills |
Here are some of the same islands as seen
in last week’s photo, but from a different perspective – looking east instead
of south. This is the waterfront at Cleveland’s House, the oldest surviving
Muskoka resort.
Because 19th century settlers on these lakes discovered
that their free land was mostly rock and not conducive to farming, they soon
began renting out rooms to adventurers seeking a wilderness holiday. Many of
the 100 inns and resorts that once populated the three large, interconnected
lakes – Muskoka, Rosseau, and Joseph -
began as farmsteads, as did Cleveland’s House, founded by the Minett
family in 1869.
In my novel, Under the Moon, I loosely
based the Seafords’ “Pineridge Inn” on Cleveland’s House, and located it where
the Shamrock Lodge sits.
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