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1884 school

Root/ Losee / Marshall cottage - 4068 Bath Road from bay also former offices of the rafting company

C. 1940 the driveway of the Rowley house with the hotel in the background.[Mr Reid identifies Charley Leonard in the picture]

Opening Highway 33. (1926?)

The Hotel, (taken from the previous picture), burned in 1941. the site later occupied by Wise's Store, McEwen's Store and the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 631, 4034 Bath Road.

The fonds consists of photographs taken between 1900 and 1950. Almost all of the buildings have either gone or have been so altered as to be almost unrecognisable now; the same might be said of the people. The mills and the rafting and dredging company were principal sources of employment at one time. In the early part of the century these went out of business. After that there seems to have been some tourist trade but not nearly enough to make much local employment. By the time the photograph of the section hands was taken they were very nearly the only regularly employed working men in the village. There was, of course, some farm work available on the surrounding farms, but most men had to depend on commuting to Kingston for work, if there was work to be found. For many years the railway provided the best access to Kingston and the station was an important part of the community. High school students, for example, travelled daily to Kingston by train to attend school. The opening of the highway made motor traffic a much more viable option for commuters and brought the little self contained village closer to the bed room suburb that it has now become. Various views of Collins Bay including cutting ice on Collins Bay, the grist mill, Langly's store, Elm Lodge, 1884 school, Collins Bay Station, Jubilee Women's Institute, Opening Hwy.33 etc. Also include a playbill from "Dust of the Earth".

The grist mill, mill race, machine shed/sawmill? but in this case the picture was before 1912 as the bleach house is missing from the top of the mill.

1914 - a steam tractor crashed through the wooden bridge by the mill. In the background are the grist mill and coal storage buildings. Note the horizontal track across the road between the coal storage buildings. This track carried trucks of coal from one building to the other.

Same accident but a much better view of the coal storage building on the "coal dock" - note the device on the water side of the building that was used to lift coal from the schooners that delivered it to Collins Bay up to the coal trucks.

1884 school interior in 1942.