Muskoka Steamships & Discovery Centre

02/02/2025

Sagamo passing through the Port Carling Lock.🚢
(📷thanks to Brian Westhouse)

02/02/2025

🎓TAMWOOD LODGE - Did you know?🎓
In 1967, Muskoka Lake College, an all-boys private school founded by James Allen, operated out of Tamwood in the winter, providing an unusual but ingenious revenue source for the resort during its off-season. However, the unusual concept was considered ahead of its time and the school closed in 1971.
(Thanks to Andrew Hind)

02/02/2025

🌟🌊✨WANDA III SAILS AGAIN! ✨🌊🌟
After meticulous restoration and refurbishment, the WANDA III is awaiting her official launch in the Spring, offering the ultimate setting for special birthday, anniversary and wedding celebrations! Her woodwork is gleaming, her brass is polished and she is magnificent! Currently, Wanda sits proudly on display in her newly constructed boathouse at the Muskoka Discovery Centre.
Built in 1915 for Mrs. Timothy Eaton of the Eaton department stores, the Wanda III remains the finest example of the private yacht era in Muskoka. To find out more about booking Wanda, please call (705) 687-6667 or visit her at Muskoka Discovery Centre, OPEN YEAR ROUND, Thursday to Sunday from 10am to 5pm!

02/02/2025

It's Groundhog Day folks and we're announcing the winner of the Noah's Ark Cruise contest!
🥁🥁🥁🥁....and the winner is, Ciara Ryan!! Congratulations!
The Noah's Ark Cruises will be featured on Saturday mornings throughout the summer and hosted by Speaking of Wildlife and their adorable friends. 🦫🦝🐾 Thanks to everyone who entered and stay tuned for the next contest coming up soon!

02/01/2025

Arriving home!🚢
📷thanks to .brazier

02/01/2025

🎺🎷🎶DUNN'S PAVILION 🎶🎷🎺
Step back to the days of dressing up in one’s finest attire and heading to Dunn’s Pavilion in Bala, the place to be to dance! Dunn's Pavilion attracted the era’s highest quality performers was more than achieved, with legends like Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong appearing. The night Armstrong took the stage was one of the most memorable in the venue’s history. In the summer of 1962, more than 2,100 people were crammed inside the Pavilion, with another 1,000 people listening outside on the grass or in the sea of boats drifting on Bala Bay.

02/01/2025

The hustle & bustle at Muskoka Wharf in the 1960's!🚢
(Thanks to Gravenhurst Archives)

02/01/2025

The lone survivor, RMS Segwun! 🚢
(📷thanks to )

01/31/2025

DID YOU KNOW that Segwun is still designated as a "Royal Mail Ship" by Canada Post! 📬
📷thanks to

01/31/2025

01/31/2025

Earlier days at Muskoka Wharf! 🎥
(Thanks to Gravenhurst Archives)

01/31/2025

The majestic RMS Segwun is the sole survivor of a fleet of 21 steamships which plied the Muskoka Lakes, carrying passengers, mail and freight to resort and cottage destinations long before the days of modern roads and the automobile! 🚢🌊
(📷thanks to .campers)

01/31/2025

A quick introduction to the crew of the Sagamo in 1925!🧑‍✈️
The RMS Sagamo built in 1906 ran until 1958, being the largest ship of the Muskoka Lakes Navigation Company. The crew pictured in 1925 were wearing sweaters with the initials of the Company (M.N.Co.).

01/30/2025

💯🏆100 YEARS AGO🏆💯
After refurbishment from the side paddlewheeler "Nipissing", Segwun was launched in June, 1925 for the summer passenger season. While originally she was intended to retain the Nipissing name, the extent of the alterations were so extensive that the Navigation Company chose to rename her Segwun, an Ojibwa word meaning "springtime".
(Photo thanks to Rod Brazier)

01/30/2025

🌊🌲DO YOU KNOW the legend of the Muskoka lakes?🌲🌊
According to Ojibway legend, a battle ensued between the formidable Gods Matchi-Manitou and Gitchi-Manitou over unrequited love. In a fit of rage, Gitchi-Manitou dug his fingers into the land and hurled mounds of rock at his rival. The holes left in the ground became the Muskoka lakes and the rocks that were thrown became the 30,000 islands of Georgian Bay.

01/30/2025

📰🛟SAVE THE DATE - VINTAGE BOAT SHOW🛟📰
The 2025 Antique & Classic Vintage Boat Show will be back this year on Saturday July 12th! The 43rd annual show is free of charge to attend and is always an anticipated Muskoka tradition.
https://www.acbs.ca/cpages/vintage-boat-show
(Photo thanks to .jenna.lauren)

01/30/2025

⏳🎩Downtown Bracebridge in the 1940's🎩⏳
The village was incorporated in 1875 and became a town under an Act of Parliament in 1889. By 1869, Bracebridge was a village with a population of 160 established on the Muskoka River. By 1870 the village had a population of about 400, growing to reach a total of about 2,000 by the turn of the 20th century.
On October 5, 1894 the Bracebridge Village Council purchased a water power generating plant to supply electricity to the community and in so doing made Bracebridge the pioneer in municipal hydro-electric generation in Canada. The generator was 84 kilowatts and housed in the building which still stands at Bird's Mill.

Town of Bracebridge
Town of Bracebridge
Bracebridge Chamber of Commerce
Bracebridge Chamber of Commerce

01/29/2025

Impatiently waiting for Spring!
📷thanks to .wang.566