GARGANTUA
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| NAME: GARGANTUA COUNTY: ONTARIO ROADS: 2WD GRID: CLIMATE: Snow in winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: Spring summer or fall |
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| The indented and remote shores
of northeastern Lake Superior were home to numerous fishing villages. Gargantua
was typical of most remote fishing settlements. Hidden behind a headland
and safe from Superior’s fury, an icehouse, net shed, warehouse, and
a few homes lined the shore. In later years a few tourist cabins were added
along with the shanties of some squatters. By the end of World War II, the
lakes fishery collapsed, a victim of over-fishing. The era of the summer
fishing villages was over and Gargantua was a ghost town. |
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