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Garbutt barge c1955

from Cloyne and District Historical Society

• jamica1 said:

  Nice piece of vernacular technology.

• Cloyne and District Historical Society said:

  jamica1 What is Vernacular Technology?

• jamica1 said:

  Cloyne and District Historical Society Something that people build simply from their own knowledge and experience of building. As distinct from technology designed by a technical expert. So a vessel designed by a marine architect is not vernacular technology but this is.

• paulowarner said:

  I remember Mr. Garbutt. We had a cottage on the east side of the lake and stored our boat at his camp on the west side. As a kid in the late fifties, I was very impressed by what was probably also "vernacular technology". The boats were stored under a roof and out of the water, parallel to the shoreline. When we arrived from Toronto (usually late Friday night), he would hand-cranked a moveable launching slip to the bay where ours was stored, lock it into place, and then crank the boat down into the water. He also had a warehouse full of ice blocks stored under sawdust. The blocks had been cut from the lake during the winter and we always loaded one up for our icebox.

• Cloyne and District Historical Society said:

  Thank you Paul for the input. You & I must have crossed paths many times since I grew up with Popi Camp as our jumping-off point to the east side of the late. We are always looking for information about our images and their locations. Maybe you could share some more memories &/or pictures of the camp or the lake in general.