Timeline — Ojibway Historical Preservation Society

1902

Helen Davis visits Pointe au Baril and purchases an island, St. Helena, for $5.

1903

Hamilton Davis, at age 38, stays at his sister’s new cottage.

1904

Hamilton Davis purchases Iroquois Island (now called Nepenthe) and arranges for survey of Ojibway Island by Josiah Gershwin Sing.

1905

Katharine Davis, Hamilton Davis’s eldest sister, purchases an island that she names Minnehaha.

1906

Hamilton Davis purchases Ojibway Island for $210 ($5 per acre) in May.

Hamilton Davis transfers ownership of Ojibway Island to the Pointe au Baril Hotel Company Limited for $350 in June; shareholders invest $15,000 to build and operate the Ojibway Hotel. Hotel opens on June 23.

1907

First regatta held at Ojibway wharf. Hamilton Davis marries Amelia (Millie) McIntosh – of Meaford, Ontario, and summer resident of Pointe au Baril Village – on September 17. Mechanic’s lien for $723.21 issued against Ojibway Island by Parry Sound contractors MacNabb and McKinney.

1908

First CPR train to Pointe au Baril Station, formally known as Sucker Creek. Pointe au Baril Islanders’ Association formed at a meeting at the Ojibway Hotel.

1910

The Pointe au Baril Hotel Company Limited changes name to Pointe au Baril Summer Hotel Company Limited.

1913

$2,000 loan to the Pointe au Baril Summer Hotel Company Limited, at six percent interest, from Adele H. Clark, of Rochester, New York, to finance building of west wing of hotel and tower; secured by mortgage against Ojibway Island; discharged in 1916.

1916

Millie McIntosh Davis dies.

1917

Hamilton Davis marries Louie Irene Cloke of Hamilton, Ontario, on April 21.

1918

Twin sons born to Hamilton and Irene Davis on June 24: Jeremy Griswold Davis and Hamilton Cloke Davis. Hamilton Cloke dies at age 15 days on July 8.

1922

Hamilton Davis granted Canadian citizenship.

1924

Jeremy Griswold Davis dies at age five, on April 25.

1937

Highway 69 opens to Pointe au Baril.

1942

Hamilton Davis sells Ojibway Hotel for $80,000 to a group of islanders, organized by Peter Campbell.

1943

The Ojibway Hotel Limited officially takes over ownership of the hotel.

1947

Hamilton Davis dies of a heart attack on February 10 in Orlando, Florida.

1954

Preference shares issued to maintain the hotel; $23,300 raised from 1954 to 1959.

1956

Parcel of land on south side of Ojibway Island leased to E. B. Kernaghan, who builds Kernwood cottage for use by his family and hotel guests (parcel purchased in 1966).

1957-58

Three parcels of land sold on Ojibway Island (including Cedarwood cottage lived in by Hamilton Davis while he owned the hotel), to the MacLennan family, managers of Ojibway Hotel through the 1950s.

1959

The Ojibway Club incorporated; the hotel continues to operate for several more years. Lease of southwest point of Ojibway Island (parcel purchased in 1977).

1960

First annual meeting of the Ojibway Club.

1962

Facilities still owned by the Ojibway Hotel Limited but operated as the Ojibway Club.

1964

The Ojibway Club purchases assets of the Ojibway Hotel Limited by issuing debentures. Ojibway Hotel’s Sprucewood and Larchwood cottages sold.

1964

The Ojibway Club purchases assets of the Ojibway Hotel Limited by issuing debentures. Ojibway Hotel’s Sprucewood and Larchwood cottages sold.

1977

Property and buildings of the Ojibway Hotel Limited transferred to the Ojibway Club.

1996

Steps initiated by Don Kopas, Ojibway Club board member, to obtain charitable status for fundraising to restore buildings and infrastructure.

2006

Restoration of Ojibway buildings complete on eve of centennial celebrations.