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The world flocks to Bala

It comes as a great surprise to tourists that one of the best Anne of Green Gables museums in all Canada is in Bala, Muskoka. Bala’s Museum with Memories of Lucy Maud Montgomery has attracted more than 100,000 visitors from 39 countries since it opened in July, 1992.

RIM boss Jim Basillie and Kurt & Goldie Muskoka. Trail blazers?
Ha! Clark Gable was all over it.

You know you have arrived when you’re hot in Hollywood, and Muskoka is smokin’. Lakes Rosseau, Joseph and Muskoka are a regular Beverly Hills, dotted with mammoth multi-million-dollar “cottages” built and bought by the likes of Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, Marty Short, Steven Spielberg, Kenny G and Cindy Crawford.

Like every community worth its salt, Muskoka-Parry Sound is quick to trumpet its success stories—home-grown or not.

Let’s be fair. With a year-round population of 58,000 and settlement that goes back just 150 years, the gene pool in Muskoka-Parry Sound is--somewhat limited. So when it comes to claiming made-goods as our own, you can’t blame us for stretching things a bit.