With steady improvements and with more of the tourist looking for a backwoods area with excellent fishing and hunting the Summer Resort started to flourish. On of the earliest guests of John 's Summer Resort was two families of Bampfield 's, James and his brother along with their wives on an 1895 fishing excursion. The Bampfields were one of the wealthiest families in Niagara Falls Ontario whose success emanated form various commercial development such as the Great Western Restaurant and a stockholder in the Niagara Falls Electric Light and Power Company. One of their sons, James Jr. brought electricity to the Niagara Falls area. Their family home, Bampfield Hall, is now a historic site.
In mid-July 1898, one of the guests that John and Lucinda …show more content…
and Mrs. Jennings of Blackstone. They took away a fine lot of fish and vow they will return again. It is always the way; to once visit Blackstone insures a return.
Another influential guest was the Chicagoan merchant Mr. Vernon. By 1905 Clevelanders were rediscovering the abundance of small-mouth black bass, wall-eyed pike and muskellunge. A group that had been staying at Stanley House on Lake Joseph on opposite shores from Gordon Bay stayed over a the Summer Resort: Dr. Frank Bunts, a surgeon and his brother-in-laws Hugh Wicks, a banker, Alexander Taylor, a real estate broker and John Baxter Cochran son of an Eire Railroad vice-president.
Not every season was good however. A serious threat to the Jenning 's Summer Resort or what was really a hunting and fishing camp occurred in 1902 when Blackstone Lake had 2 reports of smallpox. Clearly not a good advertisement. Also, the tourist season was reported as ‘dull’ for John in 1908 as a result of the ‘Panic of 1907’ when numerous runs on banks spread throughout the United States and the stock market crashing by 50%. The wealthy Americans stayed home to attend their personal problems. …show more content…
10 and 11, in Conger, on November 23, 1908 from the Crown, Henry moved back to Blackstone Lake. With building his cabin facing west, the location would receive breezes to near gale force winds, as the west wind is the predominant wind direction coming off of Georgian Bay.
When John and Lucinda’s youngest, Eliza or Cassie became 20 she married Edwin Hurd (b 1887) on June 9, 1909 and they had a son the next year Kenneth and in 1916 another son Clarence. Unfortunately, the marriage lasted less than 9 years with Edwin’s death at the young age of 31 in 1918. Cassie would remarry Arnold Pender (b 1896) on October 5, 1920, Clarence moved to the Armstrong farm with his aunt Rosa and uncle-in-law Bob.
Arthur Jennings was 26 in 1913 and was a little late getting married by the standards of the time. However, he did like associating with the girls when he could. In the first week of September of that year he was guiding two young ladies both 21 year olds, Hannah Pender and Fanny Wilcox. Both girls lived north up the Blackstone Road from the Jennings. No doubt with Arthur’s expert knowledge of the lake the girls caught a 40 pound
In mid-July 1898, one of the guests that John and Lucinda …show more content…
and Mrs. Jennings of Blackstone. They took away a fine lot of fish and vow they will return again. It is always the way; to once visit Blackstone insures a return.
Another influential guest was the Chicagoan merchant Mr. Vernon. By 1905 Clevelanders were rediscovering the abundance of small-mouth black bass, wall-eyed pike and muskellunge. A group that had been staying at Stanley House on Lake Joseph on opposite shores from Gordon Bay stayed over a the Summer Resort: Dr. Frank Bunts, a surgeon and his brother-in-laws Hugh Wicks, a banker, Alexander Taylor, a real estate broker and John Baxter Cochran son of an Eire Railroad vice-president.
Not every season was good however. A serious threat to the Jenning 's Summer Resort or what was really a hunting and fishing camp occurred in 1902 when Blackstone Lake had 2 reports of smallpox. Clearly not a good advertisement. Also, the tourist season was reported as ‘dull’ for John in 1908 as a result of the ‘Panic of 1907’ when numerous runs on banks spread throughout the United States and the stock market crashing by 50%. The wealthy Americans stayed home to attend their personal problems. …show more content…
10 and 11, in Conger, on November 23, 1908 from the Crown, Henry moved back to Blackstone Lake. With building his cabin facing west, the location would receive breezes to near gale force winds, as the west wind is the predominant wind direction coming off of Georgian Bay.
When John and Lucinda’s youngest, Eliza or Cassie became 20 she married Edwin Hurd (b 1887) on June 9, 1909 and they had a son the next year Kenneth and in 1916 another son Clarence. Unfortunately, the marriage lasted less than 9 years with Edwin’s death at the young age of 31 in 1918. Cassie would remarry Arnold Pender (b 1896) on October 5, 1920, Clarence moved to the Armstrong farm with his aunt Rosa and uncle-in-law Bob.
Arthur Jennings was 26 in 1913 and was a little late getting married by the standards of the time. However, he did like associating with the girls when he could. In the first week of September of that year he was guiding two young ladies both 21 year olds, Hannah Pender and Fanny Wilcox. Both girls lived north up the Blackstone Road from the Jennings. No doubt with Arthur’s expert knowledge of the lake the girls caught a 40 pound