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Burk’s
Falls
Burk’s
Falls is a nice village of about 1000 on Highway 11 between Huntsville
and North Bay.
It was first settled by loggers in the 1860s. Eventually the village
was built on the banks of the Magnetawan river in 1890.
Burk’s Falls is pretty small and pretty quiet. They host an annual fall fair on Labour Day weekend, which pretty much coincides with all the other local fall fairs as well. (You’d think someone would stagger these on the schedule.) The village hosts Towne Theatre during the summer and there is also Winterfest held during the second week of January.
Burk’s
Falls has heritage river walk, a little art gallery, and a pioneer museum
which is housed in an 1893 one-room schoolhouse. There is also Stan
Darling Park on the Magnetawan River. And according to one website,
you should visit the post office to start your visit, because “the girls there
are quite wonderful.”
Local industry includes a window factory and a muffler plant. The bridge over the river at the dam is nice and provides for some nice views of the river and the town. Burk's Falls also has a boat launch, and a little tourist info centre that serves cappuccino.
In town there’s a Royal Bank, a credit union, a bowling alley, a Tim-BR Mart, a curling rink, and an LCBO. Be warned though, that this LCBO stocks beer almost exclusively in two-fours, and almost exclusively in run-of-the-mill brands like Wildcat, Carling, and Molson's Ex. I went in looking for six-pack of middle-of-the-road quality, and there was nothing. Not even Lakeport. The only sixes they had were Heineken. Everything else was a huge case, and not-so-great.
Burk's Falls was very small, so I felt a bit conspicuous taking photos of the town's main street. I managed to take a photo from across the river. (Scroll down to the bottom of the page for more photos.)
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