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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.In the latter half of the 19th century the land north of Barrie was being opened up for colonization. As roads were in poor condition or non-existent the only reliable form of transportation was by steamboat.