BOYER’S PODCAST TELLS HOW HOW MUSKOKA GOT ITS NAME
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com
BRACEBRIDGE — Ever wonder where Muskoka got its name?
Patrick Boyer talks about it in his latest Modern History of Muskoka podcast Saturday, May 9.
He says “my purpose is to put familiar Muskoka events in their larger context.”
Boyer says Muskoka is named after Chief Musquakie, a member of Canada’s First Nations who roamed the area to the south — between Lake Couchiching and Georgian Bay — in the mid 1800s.
In summer their nomadic ways took them north onto the lakes and grounds around what is now the Muskoka Lakes.
Boyer, a journalist, former MP, author, historian and now podcaster talks about Muskoka’s 22 original townships and how they got their names in the 1880s.
Each month on Hunters Bay Radio in Huntsville he tells stories about his own beloved homelands.
Go to www.patrickboyer.ca and click on podcasts for this and past episodes.
You’ll find prior programs also archived there:
- April – “Off the Grid” in Muskoka
- March – Muskoka’s Historic Sites Face Alternative Narratives
- February – Muskoka Shifts with “Roaring Twenties” Prohibition
- January – Muskokans Confront the “Spanish Flu” Pandemic
- November – Remembrance Day’s Evolving Origins
Boyer says: “If you have any comments, or topics you’d like covered in the future, I hope to hear from you.
“Please stay healthy.”
Visit him at his website at https://www.patrickboyer.ca/
You can contact Boyer at: patrick@muskokabooks.ca
Or call him at 705-645-2225.
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