Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1901 — An Unexcelled Tourist Resort. [ARTICLE]

An Unexcelled Tourist Resort.

The Highlands of Ontario are now so favorably known by the summer traveler and those looking for a place to spend the hot summer months that some of the districts are becoming so popular that the hotel accommodation . has to be added to each year. Thour sands of people annually go up into the Muskoka Lakes District, and no one is ever disappointed at the beauties that are there and the healthgiving propensities of the pure air. The altitude of Muskoka—l,ooo feet above sea level—endows it with all the advantages obtainable among the mountains, while as a matter of course it lacks nothing in so far as lakes and islands are concerned. In fact it possesses a variety of attractions, any one of which would be more than sufficient to make it dear to the hearts of its summer habitues. Standing high above the plane of humidity, the immense expanse of country is, favored by cooling breezes from the broad bosom of the Georgian Bay, whose waters wash its western limits. The district is located about 100 miles north of the city of Toronto, and can be reached from Buffalo in less than seven hours and from Toronto in three hours, and the farthest points on the lakes are reached at a reasonable hour the same day. Perfect immunity from Hay Fever is assured. Handsomely illustrated descriptive publications of the several districts comprising the “Highlands of Ontario,** are issued by the Grand Trunk Railway System and can be had free on application to J. H. Burgis, C. P. A T. A., Chicago.