Gore Bay and Kagawong

It is August 24th, and we are currently in Gore Bay, Ontario visiting fellow Loopers Mary Lou and Joan. It is great to come to a part of the loop and meet friends that you first met at a Looper Rendezvous. Mary Lou and Joan are aboard Catnip T00 and are Gold Loopers and have shared a lot of information about the Georgian Bay and North Channel. They have shown us parts of Manitoulin Island we would have never seen without their knowledge of the area. We went to see the Bridal Veil Falls at Kagawong. Kagawong is translated as "the mist that rises from the water". We later went to dinner inland at a beautiful resturant to complete a great day. Thanks Mary Lou and Joan.

The pictures are of a small museum in Kagawong, ON. The building below was a paper pulp mill that produced pulp for paper used to print Sears catalogs. It is now a museum and artist studio. You can see the stator and rotor used to generate electricty used in the factor.

This is St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church "The Sailors'Church" in Kagawong, Ontario on Manitoulin Island. The church building was dedicated on October 9, 1938. A sudden and extremely violent storm from the Northwest caught the Huffman cruiser in the channel between Manitoulin and Claperton Island, completely wrecking the boat and forcing the occupants into the larger area of Mudge and West Bay. Parts of the wreckage of the of the ill-fated cruiser were used in the construction of the memorial pulpit.