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Incredible abandoned resort

Unread postby Freelance Bowhunter » Wed Jun 19, 2019 7:48 am

I found this place when I was bear baiting in Ontario a couple years ago. Went back and filmed it with my wife a couple weeks ago. Really amazing place, thought you all would be interested.

https://youtu.be/MCJIBbmMCYQ


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Re: Incredible abandoned resort

Unread postby The Stumbler » Wed Jun 19, 2019 8:29 am

Fascinating .... like a ghost town. Do people still fish the lake catch and release ?
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Unread postby Dewey » Wed Jun 19, 2019 8:52 am

I found a few of those over the years. Always very interesting and always think about the stories that could be told and the fun times that were had there and most of all why were they abandoned?

Thanks for sharing. 8-)
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Re: Incredible abandoned resort

Unread postby Freelance Bowhunter » Thu Jun 20, 2019 12:01 am

The Stumbler wrote:Fascinating .... like a ghost town. Do people still fish the lake catch and release ?


Been a lot of years now and people do fish the area and eat the fish.
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Unread postby Jackson Marsh » Thu Jun 20, 2019 6:44 am

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Unread postby Edcyclopedia » Thu Jun 20, 2019 6:50 am

Love it - thanks for sharing!!! 8-)
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Unread postby Uncle Lou » Thu Jun 20, 2019 11:58 pm

That was pretty cool. I must say I am interested now in searching about the mercury, and the source. Thanks for sharing
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Unread postby greenhorndave » Fri Jun 21, 2019 1:18 am

Great video and an amazing place. The cabins with intact roofs almost look like someone could move back into one today.
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Unread postby wibowhntr » Tue Jul 09, 2019 11:42 pm

Really cool! Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Incredible abandoned resort

Unread postby KRONIIK » Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:33 am

Amazing how well those cabins have held up.
My cousin owns a similar resort in Alaska; from what I understand of it without significant annual maintenance the muskeg/tundra would pretty much swallow it all within a couple decades.
He's constantly jacking and shoring them up as they slowly sink.

The condition of those Ontario cabins, (and especially the massive stone fireplaces) indicates to me that it was all built on very solid ground; and probably solid ROCK!

So sad that it couldn't have been used and enjoyed by thousands more people since the mercury warning...


Thanks for sharing it with us!
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Unread postby Bearman13 » Thu Jul 11, 2019 12:49 am

The story on the fly in resort is quite amazing. Lots of info online about it and the coverup of the mercury in the water.
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Re: Incredible abandoned resort

Unread postby Ognennyy » Wed Aug 28, 2019 2:26 am

Super cool place to stumble upon like that. Exciting and fun, at the same time a bit lonely and sad. Amazing though, the place abandoned for so long and it still looks to be in decent shape. There was even one shot toward the end of a screened in porch with water leaking on a floor that somehow hasn't rotted out.

I feel like someone - relatives of the original owner perhaps? - must be coming there periodically and maintaining the place.
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Re: Incredible abandoned resort

Unread postby may21581 » Wed Aug 28, 2019 3:08 am

greenhorndave wrote:Great video and an amazing place. The cabins with intact roofs almost look like someone could move back into one today.


What I wouldn't give to hang my toolbelt up and move there! What a place and absolutely a dream to an outdoorsman.
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Re: Incredible abandoned resort

Unread postby justin84 » Wed Aug 28, 2019 3:18 am

Thanks for sharing!
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Re: Incredible abandoned resort

Unread postby Huntress13 » Wed Aug 28, 2019 4:07 am

After reading just two articles.....

Lamm was blowing the whistle in the 70's about the high levels of mercury from 1970-1975. And in 2018 they are still doing studies finding health problems, and they haven't cleaned up the river?! Though this article says Canada has pledged $85 to clean it up and a treatment center.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder- ... -1.4931731

I don't get it.

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