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Welcome aboard for our 2026 season

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Private Charters

1.5 hour tours on the five lake chain

in the Haliburton Highlands for

your group of up to 10 persons.

“The past is never dead,
it’s not even past.”

                       
Wm. Faulkner

Cruise leisurely with us aboard

our classic fantail launch, 

the Lady of the Lake.

OUR TOURS

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Travel historical routes along spectacular shoreline.

Witness the development of our lakes as each era

whispers through engaging stories of our past.

Select from one of our 1.5 hour tours,

or create a custom experience.

 

Private charters customized for your comfort and interests.

  • birthdaysanniversaries  reunions

  • club socials  corporate groups

  • morning, afternoon, and evening cruises

  • sunset memories

  • fall colour tours

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Upper Kashagawigamog Tour

Your private charter experience:

1 hr 30 min
$225 for the charter (includes up to 10 guests)

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Lower Kashagawigamog Tour

Your private charter experience:

1 hr 30 min
$225 for the charter (includes up to 10 guests)

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Canning Lake Tour

Your private charter experience:

1 hr 30 min
$225 for the charter (includes up to 10 guests)

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Lost Haliburton Boat Tours



We are making revisions to this Tour for 2026.    This once-weekly guided tour departs from the Haliburton town dock during July and August and explores the colourful history of lost lodges.  

Please stay tuned!

More details will be published here in June.


 

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Suggested readings
   may be found at the Haliburton County Public Library
   and Masters Book Store

 

Fragments of a Dream:
Pioneering in Dysart Township and Haliburton Village
  by Leopoldina Dobrzenski,1985





                           
                            A Little Piece of Paradise:
                            The History of Canning Lake
                              by Jim Mitchell, 2016






       Surviving Four Migrations: 
       The Loucks of Haliburton
         by Orie & Elinor Loucks, Barbara Godberson, 2012






       

       Alexander Niven: 
       The Biography of an Early Haliburton County Surveyor
          by Kim Emmerson, 2015






       In Quest of Yesterday: 
       Haliburton Highlands Provisional County
          by Nila Reynolds, 1968







L      Life of a Lumberman
         by George Thompson, 1895

 

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