Huntsville and Lake of Bays Transportation Company
The Huntsville and Lake of Bays Transportation Company was a company chartered in 1895 to operate steamboats on the Lake of Bays, and a series of lakes connecting to Huntsville in the northern section of the Muskoka Lakes District of Ontario, Canada. The wholly owned Huntsville and Lake of Bays Railway ran a short line narrow gauge railway to connect steamboats operating on Lake of Bays and Peninsula Lake outside Huntsville, Ontario. Covering a vertical distance of along the hilly route, it was known as the "smallest commercially operated railway in the world".

The network, which eventually contained eight steamboats, a single locomotive and several hotels and lodges in the area, operated as a unit until 1959. At that time, increasing automobile use led to a rapid decline in laker traffic. The hotels were sold off one by one, but the company remained a legal entity until 1967. The railway was purchased by the town of St. Thomas in southern Ontario, where it was reassembled to become the Pinnifore Park Railway. During the 1980s it was purchased by a group of enthusiasts in Huntsville and returned north, operating today as the Portage Flyer.
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steamboats
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Huntsville
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Muskoka Lakes
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Ontario, Canada
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short line
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narrow gauge
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Lake of Bays
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Peninsula Lake
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Huntsville, Ontario
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St. Thomas
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Huntsville and Lake of Bays Transportation Company
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1895
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1959-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1959
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1967-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1967
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1980-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1980
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located in the administrative territorial entity
located in the administrative territorial entity