About eight years ago I found these two turn-of-the-last-century references to Gidley Boats, just one of the many small wooden boat-building companies located around the Great Lakes that mostly disappeared by the 1950s with the advent of fiberglass as a material for boat manufacture.
The company was located in the town of Penetanguishene on Georgian Bay, beyond that there was no information appearing over the years I've been looking- in old books, magazines or online. But other people must have sensed the need to tell the story because a recent Google search showed that in the last couple of years all sorts of Gidley boat info has appeared. It's interesting the famous names that crop up in the story. Read about it here and here.
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