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Bala is a community located in Muskoka Lakes Township where Lake Muskoka drains into the Moon River. The Township of Muskoka Lakes is an area municipality of the District Municipality of Muskoka, Ontario, Canada. ...
Lake Muskoka is located between Port Carling and Gravenhurst, Ontario. ...
The Moon River is a river in west central Ontario which flows from Bala Bay on Lake Muskoka and empties into Georgian Bay south of Parry Sound. ...
It is considered one of the hubs of cottage country located north of Toronto, Ontario. Thus, its year-round population of several hundred is swamped by thousands of seasonal residents and day-trippers. It is known as the Cranberry Capital of Ontario. 19th century Cottages in the small hamlet of Crafton, Buckinghamshire In modern usage, a cottage is a dwelling, typically in a rural, or semi-rural location (although there are cottage-style dwellings in cities). ...
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History
It was settled by Thomas Burgess starting in 1868. It is named after and now officially twinned with the Welsh town of Bala in the United Kingdom. Located on the Canadian Shield, it proved unsuitable for farming and its fortunes declined as logging became less economically viable. Thomas Burgess was the founder of Bala, Ontario, Canada, who first settled the region in the mid-1800s. ...
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Bala is a market town in Gwynedd, Wales, formerly an urban district of Merionethshire. ...
Canadian Shield The Canadian Shield— also called the Precambrian Shield, Laurentian Shield, Bouclier Canadien (French), or Laurentian Plateau— is a large shield covered by a thin layer of soil that forms the nucleus of the North American craton. ...
In 1914, the town incorporated with Burgess’ son as the first mayor. Three years later, a small hydroelectric dam was set up on the river. Muskoka Road (formerly Highway) 169 still traverses the top of the dam. The town was large enough to be served by the Ontario Provincial Police (home to the OPP's first police station) and the Liquor Control Board of Ontario. In 1971, the town was amalgamated with other townships and municipalities to form the Township of Muskoka Lakes. Hydroelectric dam diagram The waters of Llyn Stwlan, the upper reservoir of the Ffestiniog Pumped-Storage Scheme in north Wales, can just be glimpsed on the right. ...
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The Ontario Provincial Police (O.P.P.) is the provincial police force for the province of Ontario, Canada. ...
The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) is a provincial Crown corporation established in 1927 by Premier Howard Ferguson to sell liquor, wine, and beer in Ontario through a chain of retail stores. ...
The Township of Muskoka Lakes is an area municipality of the District Municipality of Muskoka, Ontario, Canada. ...
Culture and entertainment Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of the Anne of Green Gables books, visited Bala in 1922. Based on a tenuous connection to a beloved Canadian author, Bala's Museum, a community museum featuring L.M. Montgomery, was opened in the 1990s. The more established, larger and more wide-ranging community museum remains at the Muskoka Lakes Museum in nearby Port Carling, Ontario. Lucy Maud Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery, (always called Maud by family and friends) and publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, (November 30, 1874–April 24, 1942) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables. ...
Anne of Green Gables is a book written by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery; it was first published in 1908. ...
Balas Museum, officially with the sub-name With Memories Of Lucy Maud Montgomery, is a museum located in Bala, Ontario, Canada which is owned and operated by Jack and Linda Hutton. ...
Steamboat Bay, south side of Port Carling Port Carling locks Steamboat Bay Port Carling is an unincorporated community in the Township of Muskoka Lakes in the Canadian province of Ontario. ...
Bala maintains a link with its agrarian past by hosting the Bala Cranberry Festival each fall on the weekend after Canadian Thanksgiving. Other notable sources of food are Don’s Bakery, which has sold delicious bread, pastries and cookies for decades. Don's is famous for scones and people drive through Bala specifically to purchase them. They also put in larger orders to take home to their freezer for a reminder of summer in the winter months when the bakery is closed.
Since 1942, under various management and names, the community and the surrounding area was offered live musical entertainment. In the 1940s and ‘50s, Big Bands like Mart Kenney, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman and Louis Armstrong played at Gerry Dunn’s Dancing Pavilion. Since the 1960s, rock musicians like Kim Mitchell, The Ramones, April Wine, Burton Cummings and Jeff Healey played at The Kee to Bala, as it had become then. In the 1980s, Bala and Port Carling were also featured in a hilarious skit by The Frantics on Boot to the Head. In the skit, a man on his way to Bala bores his companion to distraction in part by endlessly enumerating the communities' features. A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with playing jazz music and which became popular during the Swing Era from 1935 until the late 1940s. ...
Herbert Martin Mart Kenney (March 7, 1910 - February 8, 2006) was a Canadian jazz musician and bandleader whose big band Mart Kenney and His Western Gentlemen was Canadas premier dance band during the 1930s and 1940s. ...
Edward Kennedy “Duke†Ellington (April 29, 1899–May 24, 1974) was an American jazz composer, pianist, and band leader who has been one of the most influential figures in jazz, if not in all American music. ...
Woodrow Charles Herman (May 16, 1913 – October 29, 1987), better known as Woody Herman, was an American jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. ...
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Joseph Kim Mitchell (born July 10, 1952 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a Canadian guitarist. ...
The Ramones (L-R, Johnny, Tommy, Joey, Dee Dee) on the cover of their debut self-titled album (1976), cementing their place at the dawn of the punk movement. ...
April Wine is a Canadian rock band formed in 1969. ...
Burton Cummings, OM, D.Mus (born December 31, 1947) is a Canadian musician and songwriter. ...
Jeff Healey (born Norman Jeffrey Healey, 25 March 1966, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian blues-rock guitarist. ...
Frantics is the name of: Frantics (band), a punk rock band. ...
In the summer months, students at a nearby ski school perform aquatic stunts on a weekly basis for local residents. The students form pyramids, jump obstacles, ski barefoot, and, on occasion, ski while wearing alpine skis. The ski show is free. People bring lawn chairs and blankets to sit on. It is suitable for all ages and is a tradition in bala and surrounding areas. Alpine skier carving a turn on piste Alpine skiing (or downhill skiing) is a recreational activity and sport involving sliding down snow-covered hills with long, thin skis attached to each foot. ...
External links Coordinates: 45°01′N, 79°37′W Lucy Maud Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery, (always called Maud by family and friends) and publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, (November 30, 1874–April 24, 1942) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables. ...
Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
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