Camp Mazinaw at Mazinaw Rock c1933

The Mazinaw Rock during the time of the first Mazinaw Boys Camp, between 1929 and approximately 1934...Mazinaw Rock (sometimes erroniously, called Bon Echo Rock) is a high rock cliff rising just shy of 300 feet out of Mazinaw Lake. The cliff also extends approximately the same depth below the waterline, with a huge tallus pile where rock shards have broken away from the cliff face over the millenia. It is located 16 km north of Cloyne, Ontario, Canada and is now incorporated within Bon Echo Provincial Park...Bon Echo Provincial Park was officially opened in 1965 when Merrill Denison donated the property to the Province of Ontario for the creation of a provincial park. Merrill Denison inherited the property and the Bon Echo Inn from his mother Flora MacDonald Denison. ..In the time period of this photo (1930-34) the property was being leased to Trinity College in Port Hope Ontario, which operated a boy's camp. After the boys camp closed, the Leavens Brothers operated the Inn as a summer hotel...In 1936 the Inn and some of the outbuildings were destroyed in a fire started by lightning striking the bakehouse. The loss was not fully insured and the Inn was never rebuilt.