Notes:
"Prior to the Huntsville fire of April 18, 1894, a mercantile business, owned by George Hutcheson, operated on this site under the name Hutcheson & Son. This mercantile business had been purchased by George Hutcheson from Smith and Culp in 1883. After the fire, George Hutcheson rebuilt the store on the same site but withdrew from the business. William E. Hutcheson, R.J. Hutcheson and William Hanna of Port Carling then formed the firm Hanna & Hutcheson Bros. to carry on the business."
On December 28, 1911 a fire destroyed the dry goods business of Matthew Wardell at 77 Main Street East, across the street from Hanna & Hutcheson Bros. Wardell started over by moving into the Hanna & Hutcheson building which he rented for $600 a year. Later he installed electricity and the Wardell family purchased the building for $6000 in 1920.
In 1939 the storefront was altered and new brick facing applied. Between 1913 and 1917 the store was known as Wardell, Boyd and Son. Charles Boyd's father established a grocery business next door at 90 Main Street East in 1917, known as J.R. Boyd and Son.
The store was famous for Scottish woollens, Spode china and Hudson's Bay blankets. One summer they operated a store at Bigwin Inn. In the 1950's there was a branch store on Highway 11 and in the late 70's early 80's a store in Bracebridge catering to young people. The store was closed in 1986.
Source Muskoka Digital Archives, Huntsville Public Library
Algonquin Outfitters is a two storey, rectangular, red brick commercial building with a flat roof, decorative and projecting brick work just below the roof, parapet walls on the south elevation, two segmental one-over-one windows with lug sills and brick voussoirs in the centre of the second storey on the south elevation, two picture windows with lug sills and metal awnings flanking the centre windows on the second storey of the south elevation, a sign spanning the length of the south elevation between the two storeys that reads "Algonquin Outfitters Outdoor Adventure Store", double door entrance with transom slightly offset to the west side of the south elevation, and display windows spanning the remainder of the first storey of the south elevation. The west elevation features a brick chimney, flat-headed one-over-one windows on the second storey with lug sills, and painted bricks in an alternating pattern between the two storeys and at the northern end of this elevation. There appears to be a board and batten addition with a shed roof on the north elevation.
