-from Parry Sound Public Library
We return with a fisherman to search out the location of the c.1875 fishing village that flourished on the remote Bustard Islands. During this era, wives and children were brought to these isolated locations.
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Lumber camps, fishing villages, and boom towns are abandoned on islands, and tucked away on remote shores. They are vestiges of an era when water ruled lives and hearts. Ghosts of the Bay takes you to discover these sites, and invites you to slip back in time.
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-from Parry Sound Public Library
We return with a fisherman to search out the location of the c.1875 fishing village that flourished on the remote Bustard Islands. During this era, wives and children were brought to these isolated locations. |
-from the film Ghosts of the Bay
Nothing remains of the place fisherman and their families called home. |
-courtesy of the Borron family/William A. Campbell
In 1900, French River Village had one of the largest mills on Georgian Bay. The isolated village was accessible only by water. Ship captains delivering supplies and hauling wood often argued with mill owners because trains on the elevated tramway continually blocked their view of the lighthouse. |
-from the film Ghosts of the Bay
A traveller today would not guess that a town once stood here. |
-from Archives of Ontario
We know from old photographs that the houses in French River were built along cliffs with wooden staircases leading down to sawdust covered roads. |
-from the film Ghosts of the Bay
No sign remains that buildings once stood here. |
-from Archives of Ontario
Knowing the terrifying story of the woman who had a premonition that the Waubuno’s passengers would perish made swimming around the wreck all the more chilling. |
-from the film Ghosts of the Bay
This is the upper deck of the Waubuno; the rest of the ship and the bodies have never been found. |
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