Old summer residents, such as Nelson Bushnell were a little “exercised” as the camp to its form for they didn't want to have to look at it from Phoenix Is.
1959
Mr. House, as he was getting …show more content…
2009
The the remaining rump of the old camp is sold to become private cottages.
Ken and Mabel Vankoughnett sell Crane Lake House in May to the Crane Lake Group Inc. (Robert Canning, Christopher Holmes and Garnett Graham). They attempt to improve the parking lot but a big rock thwarts the plan. In the end they loose $20 thousand in the first year of operation.
1977
Crane Lake House is sold again, this time to Anthony Nicotenteo.
1986
Crane Lake House is bought by Norman and Marlynn Payne.
Closing of Crane Lake Resort. The Resort or Crane Lake House precursor had operated from 1913 and hence for just over a century. A plan is put forth for it to become a “Condominium Village”
Perhaps noting an easy source of revenue, the Crown sets up a minimum fee of $5 for each 25 ft of lake frontage for cottagers or farmers wanting to build or place a dock on the property
With a change of law for Crown sale there was a jump of cost of Summer Resort Land selling lake shore for 60¢ per foot and $135 for the survey fee. Building requirements doubled being $1000 vs $500. No land or island over 3 acres will be sold as a unit. …show more content…
He operates his newly formed Real Estate Company. He advertises until 1979. The first advertisement, June 12 Globe and Mail, is for a 3 bedroom cottage with an asking price of $9,500 a significant jump in property prices on the lake.
During the summer, the Department of Lands and Forests auctions 500 cottage lots some of which were on Crane Lake. The conditions of sale are that the land must have just one cottage on it of at least 320 sq ft and be of at least $1800 value. As with previous land sales, the tree and mineral rights are reserved by the Crown.
1975
The value of the property in Conger Township is listed as $15 Million in cottages and recreational land, $200,000 in Businesses and $100,000 in Residential. The license for the old long gone Vankoughnett tourist houses is still valid!
1980's
From the selling of all of Brear's land and it's partitioning and additional sells by the Tölpts just prior to selling the whole farm, there is a rapid increase in the number of `tourists' to the lake. The number of cottagers using the lake for winter activities increases and the demand for winterized cottages increase. With this increasing demand and with the new Township of the Archipelago, septic tanks are required on all new