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 nerican visitors who visit Toronto and 
 beauty of the Musi<oi<a lakes, they would 
 delightful region. The same is true of 
 t disparaging other summer resorts, the 
 ig the most beautiful scenes in a country 
 ^•er, the Thousand Islands, the Georgian 
 ce. We have no personal interest in this 
 specially interested in it ; but we speak 
 [lis region of health and beauty when we 
 )tch lakes excel these, 
 one to Muskoka we have had with us 
 • first visit ; and, without exception, they 
 Queen of Sheba, ' the half was not told 
 3 who are overworked and suffering from 
 t the Muskoka lakes offer the greatest 
 sanitarium. They present a remarkable 
 It is a spacious region that it would re- 
 :rowd. We saw on the train leaving 
 ivhen there was no special excursion, four 
 at the space there is so ample that those 
 sitors. The shores of Lakes Muskoka, 
 
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(levant hutel and a bailiiiiK beach iinexcelli'<'l on inland lakes. Uitt'rson, Ti 
 miles from HracehridKe, is next reached, and within easy access is Mary 
 I.akf, one of the kgims ot Muskoka Hiintsville and Katrine, fmtiier on, to 
 pleasure, sport or nature hold a key. Katrine is also the junction point (roni 
 which the Ma^netawan river chain is easily accessible, and four miles beyond is 
 Hurk's Falls, where steamers of the Muskoka A Georgian Hay Navigation Co. 
 cm be taken. SundridKe, South River and Callander, all splendid fishing 
 poinis, are next passed, and North Hay is reached on Lake Nipissing. From 
 lure the points of interest adjacent are easily accessible by boat or wagon, and 
 to enumerate them would be an endless task. Suffice it to say that the sun does 
 not shine on a more jierfect combination of fun, hard work, fish, game and 
 scenic pleasures than this diversified region has to offer, and all reached by the 
 OraiKl Trunk KailwHy. 
 
 AT HUKK'S FAIX8 the Steamer' 
 Lake Aliinic. 
 
 Wciioiiah " for MaKnetawan anil 
 
 LAKE OF HAYS Stage from IlracebriilK*' to llayHvlUf, connecting 
 with Steamer "Mary l.ouisf." Also train to Hunlsville, thence by steamers on 
 Lakes Fairy, I'eninsula and Lake of Hays. Here are to be foimd Deer, Heaver 
 Bear, Otter and Wild Geese and Ducks in abundance. Hunting Parties will 
 not be disappointed. 
 
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Commencins Saturday, JUNE 20th, '95 
 
 The '• Muskoka" (or other Bteanicr) connecting with the Atlantic and i'acitic 
 I'xprcss will leave Gravenhiirst (Town WharOdaily (except Sunday) at 6.45 a.m., 
 and Muskoka Wharf at 7 a.m. as follows: On Mondays, Wednesdays and I'rulays 
 to Kosseau (breakfast on boardl and intermediate places. On Tuesdays, 1 liurs- 
 divs an<l Saturdays to Port Cockburn and intermediate places, coniiectiiiK at Heau- 
 maris with the " keno/ha" for Hala, Hracebridge, etc., and with the •' NipissinK " 
 lud " Medora" to all other points on the Lakes. Calls will be made at Walker s 
 Point and Point Kaye on the morninKS of Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. 
 
 81'KCIAt..— The "Oiiole" will be available to supplement above arratiKe- 
 mcnts with extra trips to and from Hala and other points for the accomniodalioiij 
 ot visitors from all points. ' 
 
 AT MUSKOKA WHARF the line Steamers of the Muskoka 
 Georgian Hay Navigation Co., viz.. the " M«Mlor»," " NlplssIiiK," "K« 
 ozha," " MuHkokii " and " Oriole," can be taken for 
 
 Bracobrldge, KcaiimariM, Mala, Pt. Carling. Pt. SaiKlflt^Id, 
 WImleriner*', Rosseau and Pt. Cockburn. 
 
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THE BEAUTIFUL LAKES OF MUSKOKA. 
 
 ONE of the writers of Saturday Night, who was lucky 
 enough to choose, for his two weeks' holiday last 
 summer, a visit to the beautiful lakes of Muskoka, 
 thus speaks of his brief sojourn there : 
 
 ' • Kind circumstances enabled me to get away for a fortnight 
 and sensible friends advised me to spend my holidays among 
 the islands and on the lakes of Muskoka. The Grand Trunk 
 Railway cannot, to my notion, receive anything but praise 
 for the way in which it has sought to develop the summer 
 resort business of Muskoka. The train and boat service 
 from the Union Station at Toronto right up to Port Cock- 
 burn at the head of Lake Joseph, or to Rosseau at the head 
 of Lake Rosseau, is uniformly excellent. I have spent vaca- 
 tions at some of the American fashionable resorts, where the 
 prices are higher than the mountains and more thrillingly 
 unique than anything in the landscape ; at Mackinac, and 
 Petosky Harbor Springs on Lake Michigan, where hay-fever 
 
 Good Railway and 
 
 Steamboat Service 
 
 HEALTH 
 ECONOMY 
 COMFORT and 
 ACCESSIBILITY 
 
 ARE THE 
 STRONG POINTS 
 IN FAVOR OF 
 
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 Lakes Resorts 
 
 HE term Muskoka Lakes refers chiefly to the three fair 
 sister lakes, Muskoka, Rosseau and Joseph. The 
 
 • sinuous shores of these three lakes form a coast line of 
 hundreds of miles, with some four hundred beautiful islands 
 studded with considerable regularity, thus affording adequate 
 protection and shelter for the frailest canoe or row-boat. The 
 lakes are traversed in all directions by the comfortable steamers 
 of our Muskoka and Georgian Bay Navigation Company. 
 Upwards of thirty-five hotels and boarding houses are regularly 
 distributed along the lakes, and are quite accessible for the 
 twice-daily steamers. 
 
 THE LATE SIR JOHN THOMPSON AND PARTY 
 
 Rosseau and Joseph are made beautiful with cottages, but there is 
 room for thousands more without the slightest crowding. The special 
 features of the Muskoka lakes are the pure air of an elevated, rocky 
 country— the remarkable clearness of the waters, which reflect the 
 form and color of every island and tree with singular vividness — the 
 unlimited facilities for boating and bathing— the absence of lime in the 
 water— the picturesque, varying beauty of the scenery, arresting 
 attention and diverting one's thoughts from the things that occupy 
 them in the daily toil of hand and brain — the short ilistance from the 
 cities, and the moderate prices for board — all make it a most desirable 
 place in which to spend a summer vacation. But those who cannot 
 stay any length of time will find the sight of these beautiful lakes well 
 worth a visit." 
 
 The number of tourists who went to .Muskoka last summer is 
 larger than that of any preceding year. A large number of the 
 visitors are Americans, and these are increasing in number from year 
 to year. The Grand Trunk, which controls the railway approach to 
 Muskoka, attributed the great expansion of business last year to its 
 special advertising of the district. Thousands of Muskoka folders 
 were distributed throughout the States, principally New York, Penn- 
 sylvania and Ohio, and the result has been highly satisfactory. The 
 traffic on the Richelieu & Ontario steamers last year was largely in 
 excess of what it has been in recent years. It is said a couple of new 
 
 patients come to sneeze away the glad and joyous summer 
 season ; at other places where mosquitoes are so numerous 
 and enormous that many of them weigh a pound— and it takes 
 a good many — but on so much of the green earth as I have 
 visited, nowhere have I found the delights held so cheap as 
 in the Muskoka Lake region. 
 
 "The Grand Trunk train runs right to the wharf at 
 Gravenhurst, and there the steamer Mcdora awaits to take 
 tourists up to the head of Lake Joseph, and the st eamer 
 Wifissiug stands prettily impatient for a run to the heaa oi 
 Lake Rosseau. These boats are officered by obliging mtn, 
 and as I made both trips I tested the comfort of each vessel. 
 Dodging about among innumerable islands on one of the 
 boats is truly delightful. Until a little canal was sunk at 
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