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Carol Morrow of the CDHS wrote an excellent history of the Myers Cave Lodge (including the snack bar) in the Pioneer Times 2009, spring edition. Snippets of the article are below:

The family of Charles McGregor had emigrated from Mas- sachusetts in 1860 to the Tweed area. In 1881 he married Eva Perry, a daughter of Ebenezer Perry. In 1891 they were living at Myers Cave. Records show that Eva transferred her land inheritance to her husband in 1892, and that year Charles and Eva built a home for their family beside the rapids at the foot of Marble Lake where it joins Georgia Lake. This would eventually become Myers Cave Lodge.

At this point, the McGregor-Perry home became a tourist op- aeration with the first guest registered in 1921. The business grew over time, and other buildings were put up by the Perrys, including a barn, dance hall, a canteen and the cottages. Another of the original structures on the property, a log ice- house, still stands today. The Perrys had a good business at Myers Cave. They had guests from as far away as Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania and of course NY state, as well throughout Ontario and the Montreal area.

Lillie (daughter of Eva and Charles) and her boys continued on at Myers Cave until 1951 when she sold it.The next people to run the Lodge were Joseph & Barbara Ballah and Kathleen & David Smith, a father/ daughter combination from Toronto. Mr. Ballah died and the Lodge was again under new management in June 1956. Wm H Royle and Lester & Frances Webb from Toronto took over with bookings in place for that season beginning in July. Frances who had mostly worked in a factory, now had to be chief cook and bottle washer for a resort.

Being a resourceful type, she confronted the challenge. Together they won back a loyal clientele and improved the services at the Lodge. They continued the suppers to the general public; the Saturday night dances and the animals were already things of the past. They built a beach around the point from the rapids, and put in a road to it from the highway. They upgraded the canteen into a store with groceries and snacks, closed in the open verandah with screens and windows, converted from cooking with wood to gas and electric, and installed the first furnace at the lodge.