Still Smiling at the Front Desk: The History of Port Stanton
Publisher: Sun Fire Publishing
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Canada
Description: When Captain Thomas Stanton launched the steamboat PIONEER on Sparrow Lake, Ontario, in 1875, he saw the potential of a lake whose sunsets inspired the Ojibwa name: Lake of the Big Sun Fire. From his initial struggles to build a home and bring roads and schools to the pioneer settlement, he and his family establised an enterprise that included a hotel, general store, steamboat line and sawmill. Today the sixth generation of Stantons continues the tradition of hospitality that endears Port Stanton to those who call it their second home.
Table of contents: title: PREFACE: Still Smiling at the Front Desk; title: 1. Moccasins With Puckered Seams; title: 2.  Footsteps in the forest; title: 3.  The Jolly Campers; title: 4. The Port that Stantons bilt; title: 5. Origins of Hamlet; title: 6. Churches and Schools; title: 7. The Middle years: 1910-1930; title: 8. Prospecting at Sparrow Lake; title: 9. The Third Generation and Beyond; title: 10.  Skating on Black Ice