The Orange Hall, Magnetawan

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Gayle Robertson

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A two page document dealing with the Orange Hall in Magnetawan. It includes two colour photographs and a history of the Orange Hall in Magnetawan. The first photograph shows a dilapidated Orange Hall. There is only a wooden shell and the building is half covered in snow. The second photograph is an earlier photograph when the building still being used and regularly repaired. It was painted white or had white siding.

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4289 Sparks Street North
IRWIN HAD A SMALL
SHOP FOR BIKES
BETWEEN ORANGE
HALL & TROYERS ABOUT
1908

South half, Lot 5, West side

Before this Orange Lodge was built in 1913 -14, the LOL 502 met somewhere at the corner of Sparks and Burrows, then at Lot 11 Bay Street. The building now has a full basement, but still has the original paneling, windows and roofing. The Orange Lodge disbanded in 1973 and the hall was sold to the Legion. When they joined with Dunchurch Legion, the building was sold to Ray King who used it as a depot for his school buses. He has since sold the bus lines, but still uses the building for storage.

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