Ojibway Historical Preservation Society

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

$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.

Millie McIntosh Davis dies.

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

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.

Hamilton Davis granted Canadian citizenship.

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

Highway 69 opens to Pointe au Baril.

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

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

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

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

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).

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.

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

First annual meeting of the Ojibway Club.

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

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

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

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

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

Restoration of Ojibway buildings complete on eve of centennial celebrations.