The Ring and Mohawk Lodge

In an effort to find out more about the broken ring I started looking up what information we had on our cottage. I know that the people who owned it before us rented out the cabins for fishing and vacations. I am not sure when the business was started but it seems it was going quite well in the 40's and 50's. Odd thing is I "Googled" Mohawk Lodge, the name of our cottage and came up with another Mohawk Lodge in Ontario that started around 1940. Our family bought our Mohawk Lodge in the 60’s and has never rented it out. It consists of the main cottage and 5 small cabins. Back in the day when it was being rented out, the previous owners kept index cards on all their guests. I suspect that there are more records but we do not have them. Families, church groups, fisherman and couples came up for a weekend or a week. One group was named the Happy Hour Club. It was $25.00 per person per week and that included meals. Children under 12 were half price and under 5 were $5.00 per week. You could rent out the boat for a buck a day. Certain months had special rates, probably due to black flies and mosquitoes. What a bargain, an entire week and you didn’t even have to cook. They had named the cabins Algoma, Cherokee, Cayuga, Shawnee, The 4th cabin and Hiawatha. For some reason I remembered it as Cree, Blackfoot, Iroquois. Now the cabins are just called by a number and the Red Cabin (because it has red tar paper on the outside). Many a couple vacationed in the Algoma and maybe one of the young ladies lost a ring on a very memorable night.

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