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unusual facts about Bigwin Inn



Lake of Bays, Ontario

The 1949 FitzPatrick Traveltalk Ontario: Land of Lakes includes a segment on Bigwin Inn.

SS Bigwin

Built by Polson Iron Works of Toronto as a private boat for an American owner James Kuhn in 1910 as a yahct and named for his wife as Ella Mary and later sold to several owners (1924, 1945 and 1960) to serve as a ferry boat and renamed Bigwin after Bigwin Inn and Chief John Bigwin.


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