So you’ve arrived at your Muskoka cottage for the summer
with trunks of supplies for the two or three months you‘ll spend there. Clothes
for all activities and weathers, the latest gramophone records, tennis and
golfing gear, a collection of books to enlighten and entertain, sacks of flour and other staples were deposited - along with your
family and servants - at your dock by a steamship. But how do you obtain fresh
foods or sundries when you’re on an island or far from a community?
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| Newminko |
Supply boats like the Newminko
were floating general stores that came by two or three times a week to the
cottagers’ docks. The kids delighted in
choosing their candy bars or other treats when Mother or Cook had finished
their purchases. Local farmers might also deliver milk and eggs daily, while
Indians encamped for the summer at Port Carling brought freshly caught fish.
Blocks of ice cut by the locals from the lake in winter were
stored in your icehouse – one of the essential outbuildings - and used as needed
to keep food from spoiling, and to make ice-cream or cool your drinks on a
sweltering summer day.
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