David Macfarlane is the author of The Danger Tree, a family memoir, and the novel Summer Gone. Both were bestsellers. His play, Fishwrap, was produced at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto. He is the recipient of numerous National Magazine Awards and a National Newspaper Award. Summer Gone was nominated for the Giller Prize and The Danger Tree won the Canadian Authors Association’s award for non-fiction. Most importantly, however, he attended Camp Hurontario as a boy, and for 10 summers, he holidayed with his wife and two children in Nares Inlet, north of Pointe au Baril. David and his family live in Toronto, and although they now spend their summer holidays in Temagami, they still keep their canoe on Georgian Bay.

Nancy Lang, on whose lap this project luckily landed, ignited the passion in those around her to produce this local history for the Ojibway Hotel’s 100th anniversary (pictured below is the research team: left to right, Rebecca Middleton, Nancy Lang, Patti Gunn and Joanna Ruby). Her love for Georgian Bay was inspired by her father, Senator Daniel Lang, and his close friend, Dan Gibson, a wildlife photographer. The two bought an old tugboat in the 1960s which they used for family excursions, exploring quiet inside channels and the wild water of the open. Nancy spent her childhood summers in Cognashene, south on the Bay, and now cottages at Pointe au Baril with her family. She lives in Toronto.