The Brampton Invasion by Gordon Beatty The year 1912 marked, I believe, the real beginning of the tourist influx to Lake Bernard, then called Stoney Lake. Prior to that time the Magnetawan and Eagle Lake had attracted many tourists but not Sundridge. In 1912 some baseball enthusiasts in Sundridge and South River, anxious to defeat the teams in some neighbouring communities, persuaded some baseball players from Brampton to spend their holidays in Sundridge. They were particularly interested in pitchers and Brampton had two good ones in Jim Algie and Bill Beatty, the latter of whom had been invited to try out with the Toronto professional team. The group was comprised largely of the Dales and relatives, of the Dale Estate Greenhouses in Brampton, at that time one of the largest in the world with over forty acres under glass. The following photo shows nine of the original group, namely This group continued to spend their summer holidays in Sundridge almost every year until their deaths which in the case of my brother, Bill Beatty, meant sixty-three years. Their names, Algie, Beatty, Campbell and Dale, with the later addition of two more related families, Brydon and Hall, are still familiar names hereabouts. After one year in a large tent on the J. P. Johnstone property at the foot of Union Street, they moved into the three Johnstone cottages, first renting them and then buying them. Shortly after the first world war, as their families expanded, Bill Algie, Bill Beatty and Dr. Brydon moved over to the extreme north end of the lake. They had to be optimists to do so as at that time, the beach there was not very attractive. There was about a foot of old sawdust on top of it, blown over from an old sawmill at the foot of the lake, with more buried in the sand as well as in the bottom of the lake. It took years to