Postcard Memories is a weekly series of historic postcard views and photos submitted by Marcel Rousseau.
Some were previously published by the Orillia Museum of Art and History and in the book Postcard Memories Orillia.
The Miss Orillia was built for the 1933 cruise season on Lake Couchiching by Hunter Boat Works of Orillia for Harold J. Rolland, owner of Rolland Boat Line located on the Orillia waterfront
At 36 feet in length and carrying 30 passengers, it cruised daily to Sparrow Lake and back for the next 30 years. In the late 1950s the return fare was $3 for a four-hour cruise through Lake Couchiching, the Trent Canal, Severn River and Sparrow Lake.
Half-hour trips on Lake Couchiching every evening and Sundays were 50 cents.
In 1964 many of the boathouses on Orillia’s waterfront were destroyed by fire. The Miss Orillia burned beyond restoration and was later sunk in an unknown location in Lake Couchiching.
