BAY – VIEW HOTEL, 1937

This photograph was taken by Robert J. Wunkerin July of 1937. Bob, his younger brother Don, uncle Wes, best friend, Russ Cason, and another pal left Ohio and motored to Ontario. Visiting Temagami, and Callander (to see the world-famous Dionne Quintuplets), they visited Miners’ Bay.

The stop was not quite accidental: Not only was their Cincinnati Pastor vacationing there, but the Wunker family was considering buying the resort from the Tracy family.

Shown are Reverend and Mrs. John Enos Windsor. J.E, as he was known, had vacationed at the Bay View Hotel since 1926, when he first came to be the summer speaker at the Miners’ Bay Church.

An avid fisherman, he lived up to his reputation and caught the boys a large bass for breakfast. Before they left Miners’ Bay, this photo was taken.

J.E. is wearing his trade mark pith helmet, and classy “plus fours”. These breeches, were the rage in the 1930’s, and got the name by being four inches longer than classic knickerbocker trousers.

Reverend Windsor had been asked by local cottagers to assist in securing a young family to purchase the Hotel from its aging owners. He succeeded in his mission!

Russ Wunker, April 2020