Settler of township lots: Lot 13, Conc. 4, Stanhope

Location: Map point is the approximate location on the west shore of Boshkung Lake, north of North Shore Road just north of Hamilton Beach. 

Land Acquisition: 1942 from His Majesty part seasonal resort location. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Image 147).

Dates of residency: Summer resident

Interesting facts: Excerpted from Boshkung Lake Memoirs, The Boshkung Lake Millennium Book Committee, 2001. Varty pg 140. Mrs. Ruth Varty sold her beloved cottage in the fall of 2000.

Ruth and George Varty were introduced to Boshkung lake in 1933, as weekend guests of their friends, the Hillock family. Later, they rented, for $25.00 for the summer, a little cabin on the east side of highway 35, a building owned by Victor MacBrien, which had been used by road crews when the road was moved and improved in 1936. The bought a pie-shaped property located just north of Hamilton Beach, north of the corner which is north of North Shore road, a corner that used to be called Ox Corner, said Leigh Sisson, because an ox used in the road building, had died there. It was the property where logs used to be slide down onto the ice. When they bought it, the bark from rolling logs was three feet deep.

Preceding landowner: The Crown

Succeeding landowner:

Link to Settlers of Algonquin Highlands family tree - not listed