Port Stanton, Ontario
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Port Stanton is a small community located on Sparrow Lake in central Ontario, Canada, in the township of Severn, just north of Orillia, Ontario along the Trent-Severn Waterway. The lake was once home to many summer hotels, drawing guests from all over Ontario and the northern United States. Captain Thomas Stanton and his wife Ellen settled there in 1875. He and his family made a living initially from farming and steamboat transport, and later from a series of summer resorts. The area continues to be a popular tourist destination, and the largest resort on the lake, Bayview-Wildwood, is still run by Thomas Stanton's descendants.
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