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Our minister in our centennial year is Jean Pauley, a woman with warmth, wit and wonderful leadership. Acknowledgements The gratitude of the Centennial Committee is extended to all those who have contributed to our history book - to those who posed for photographs, those who provided financial backing and those who presented anecdotes and historical documents. Thanks go out to Public Archives Canada, the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada, and to Ross Cumming for permission to reprint contents of the 1879 Atlas of Muskoka and Parry Sound. A very special thanks to those who trusted us with the loan of valuable personal photographs during the publication process - Doris Austen, Elizabeth Gray, Renee Harbit, Effie Healey, Ilah Hunter, Mary Hutchinson, Alice Northcote, Edna Northcote, Berna Pringle, Lillian Roehl and Gord VanDuzen. I am indebted to Edna Northcote and Renee Harbit for their editorial assistance, to Harve Fowler for identifying old cars and to Ab Culbert for data on early navigation. It has been a privilege and a labour of love to have had the opportunity to serve as your editor. God bless you all. Bill Allen, Editor. 4