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This photo appears to be Beatty's Curve, west of Kaladar. The highway has been considerably straightened since the photo was taken. A Volkswagen Beetle appears to be heading east towards Kaladar.

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L-R: Reg and Ethel Wood, bride Hilda Wood, groom Clifford Gaylord, Eileen and George Gaylord
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Unknown publisher of this.newspaper article - likely from the Tweed News. This article is on display in the Cloyne Pioneer Museum, hunting and fishing section.

The members of the Kaladar Road and Gun Club held a sighting-in match on Saturday afternoon, October 31st, as a warm-up for the opening of deer season. If the quality of the marksmanship is maintained for the next couple of weeks, there should be plenty of venison in the area.

Bill Thomleson was in charge of the match competitions, with nine rounds fired from the prone position and one off-hand shot. The winners were Tod James, Nelson Vanness, Glen York, Harold Lemke, Pat Lett and Phil Renand. Arnold York was the winner of the off-hand shoot.

Bill Thomleson sighting-in his .303 rifle at the recent shooting match held by members of the Kaladar Rod and Gun Club. The match was arranged to give the members an opportunity to try out their skill prior to the hunting season. Hunting has been reported good in the Kaladar area.

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Unknown date. This photo was likely taken at the Kaladar Train Station as Bill Harbison can remember traveling by train with his mother (Beatrice) from Philidelphia to Niagara to Kaladar to visit relatives.

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Fire Chief Casey Cuddy (beige shirt) and Captain Richard Tryon (red coveralls) confer with firefighters in Kaladar. The firefighters are practicing with breathing apparatus before going into a smokehouse demonstration.

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In 2011, the Land O' Lakes Tourist Association (LOLTA) created a new promotional video with the financial support of the Frontenac Community Futures Development Corporation. The LOLTA catchment area included Lennox and Addington, Frontenac and Hastings Counties.

Jeff Green, Editor of the Frontenac News published the following article on December 12, 2017:

"It started up 74 years ago, during the Second World War in 1943, when the idea of forming a marketing organization for a region that was just developing road access was pretty forward-thinking.

Over the years the Land O’Lakes Tourist Association (LOLTA) has seen many ups and downs, and this week in Sharbot Lake the current Board of Directors took the difficult decision to disband.

Harvey Webster, the Manager of the Loughborough Inn, was the chair of LOLTA until Monday. He has been an active member and a member of the Board of Directors over the years.

He said that while LOLTA is shutting down, the marketing work that it had been doing will carry on.

“It was a sad situation but it's not that the Land o’Lakes are disappearing. The counties and local townships have stepped in over the last few years, and the provincial Regional Tourist Organisations (RTO’s) have come on stream as well. For our members, there are still opportunities for promotion as part of a region even with us closing down,” he said.

“As far as I am concerned LOLTA is not buried yet, it is more like it is more like it is on hold. If the municipalities and RTO’s step back, we will need LOLTA again.”

The storied history of LOLTA was the subject of a video that was made by Ken Hook in 2013. Hook served as LOLTA manager for one year, after the departure of Terry Shea, manager between 2003 and 2008.

The video outlines how the association got its start as a group of fishing lodges from Tweed, the region called “North Addington” at the time, which is now Stone Mills and Addington Highlands townships, and “North Frontenac”, which at the time referred to the region of Frontenac County north of Verona.

The focus of the association was for lodges and other groups to take advantage of the opportunities that were to come as the war ended and US tourists began to look northward for fishing opportunities. Membership dues went up in 1947 to $5 per season.

Over the years the association changed as new leaders came forward, two of whom, Jeanette Whitfield (1963 -1966) and Faye Henry (1979 -1996) were interviewed. They both talked about issues that were specific to their day, but also to issues that remain relevant today. For example, Henry talked about how much effort it took for the region to be noticed by various levels of government, and they both talked about the need for businesses to work together.

LOLTA was able to access grant money for its members through the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs between the late 1990s and 2010, but those programs dried up or were diverted to municipalities.

The LOLTA region, which had expanded over the decades to include all Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Counties and the Municipality of Tweed, was essentially cut in half when the province of Ontario set up the RTO’s a few years ago. The Ontario Highlands Region includes North and Central Frontenac, Addington Highlands and Tweed, but Stone Mills, South Frontenac, Napanee, and Frontenac Islands are all part of the Great Waterway region.

Having members split into two regional organizations did not help LOLTA, which has struggled in recent years as managers have come and gone. A couple of years ago, the LOLTA office in Kaladar was shut down and long-serving office administrator Joanne Cuddy was let go.

LOLTA was run out of the home office of its latest manager, Jen Fitzpatrick, until she left.

The board began to consider shutting LOLTA down when they realised that, as volunteers who were all busy working on their own businesses, they did not have the energy, or finances, to carry on.

I guess that the Land O’Lakes Tourist Association basically ran its course,” said Harvey Webster. “With the Internet and these other government options that there are for these businesses to be promoted, and the fact that we are a volunteer board, there was nothing for us to do but shut down.”

So, just months from its 75th anniversary, LOLTA is no more."

Note: The LOLTA General Manager from 2011 to 2014 was Rachelle Hardesty.

Here's another vintage 8mm home movie from Ford Vaness. This one is of Kaladar in the late 1940s or early 1950s. It shows the train station and the Sawyer Stoll planing mill which moved to Kaladar in 1945. In 1958 the operation was closed due to market pressures. Railcars can be seen in front of the Sawyer Stoll mill.

The video pans from west to east on Highway 7. We can see the Kaladar Hotel, the almost tree barren Kaladar Hill (looking north).
Next is the gas station (now the Kaladar Shell) with several vintage vehicles, the signpost with all the local lodges identified.

Looking east, we see two small buildings before we get to Bence Motors then possibly, the Fina gast station further east before the Community Centre. York's store can also be seen at the south corner of Highway 41 and 7. Lastly, a vintage snowplow is filmed.

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Kaladar, Ontario.

Kaladar, Ontario.

Near Kaladar, Ontario.

Kaladar, Ontario, Canada

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'In 1884, the Canadian Pacific Railway was extended through Kaladar. Until a station and rail siding were built, there was little mark the hamlet's existence other than a hotel and post office. Up to that time the settlement had been known as Scouten, named after Silas Scouten, an early settler in the area. With the arrival of the rail line the community was renamed Kaladar Station. Five years later the village had a general store, flour mill and sawmill.

The coming of the railway created a number of local jobs for both the station's requirements and the maintenanceo of the line. As well, agricultural goods could now be taken to the railway for shipment and manufactured goods could be ordered by catalogue and picked up locally. One of the prime cargoes on this line was western grain, shipped by freighter from Thunder Bay on Lake Superior, through the locks at Sault Ste. Marie and on to Port McNichol on Georgian Bay. There it was loaded on trains and shipped by rail to Montreal, the nearest ocean port before the building of the St. Lawrence Seaway.

According to Wilfred Lessard, it was not unusual during the navigational season on the Great Lakes, to see as many as 20 wheat trains pass through Kaladar, travelling seven minutes apart as established by a signal dispatcher's order.'
Source: The Mazinaw Experience - Bon Echo and Beyond by John Campbell

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Front Row L-R: ?, George McDonald, Hilda (York) Jerome, Marjorie Freeburn, Ernie Andrew
2nd Row, L-R: ?, Dan Freeburn?, Harvey Andrew, ?, Janet Freeburn?
3rd Row, L-R: Bert McDonald, ?, Oscar McDonald, Evelyn Campbell, ?
Back Row, L-R: ?, Lois Campbell, ?, Agnes (Wood) Roland, Olive Spicer.

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On Sunday, May 30, 1971, an historical plaque commemorating the Addington Road, an early colonization road, was unveiled in the village of Kaladar. This plaque is one of a series being erected throughout the province by the Ontario Department of Public Records and Archives, acting on the advice of the Archaeological and Historic Sites Board.

Participants in the ceremony shown left included: Mr. Arnold York, a long time resident of Kaladar; Mr. Clair Benn, Reeve of the Townships, Mr. John O’ Donnell, grandson of one of the councillors of the Townships’s first council; Mr. J. R. Simonett, MPP (Frontenac Addington); Mr. Merrill Denison, noted author; Mr. Damon Bryden, a former Reeve of the Townships; Mr. Douglas Alkenbrack, MP (Frontenac - Lennox), Mr. Cecil Kidd, Warden of the County of Lennox and Addington; Mr. Roy Holtzhauer, President of the Land O’ Lakes Tourist Association; and Prof. W. S. Goulding, representing the Province’s Historic Sites Board.

The Fina Gas Station is in the background.

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Displayed in the Pioneer Museum, this calendar shows the pride of Sawyer Stoll - The Six Horse Hitch (mentioned on the left of the photo). To the right, the inscription reads: "This Hitch as been much admired at Fall Fairs including the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto".

Also mentioned on the calendar: "Percherons for beauty, Belgians for pride, for good feet and legs, give me the Clydes". "Wallace Johnston, Manager."
"We carry a complete line of lumber and builders' supplies".

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The Kaladar Santa Claus Parade took place on Highway #7 in Kaladar for years. When Northbrook started having their own parade the two were merged. Motorists were not pleased to have Highway #7 closed during the parade!

The parade started at the Kaladar Community Centre and proceeded west, towards the OPP station then returned to the community centre for refershments and meet Santa. This photo was taken in front of Bence Motors looking southeast.

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Compliments of Jackie Bleecker.

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