Feeding 'Teddy' Bear at Price's Log Cabin - 1940s : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Feeding 'Teddy' Bear at Price's Log Cabin - 1940s / Cloyne & District Historical Society
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| 説明 | Youngster Steward Robertson feeds the bear at Actinolite on Highway 7. The bear was a roadside attraction for Price's Restaurant - Motel. Stewart's parents, Catherine (Young) and S. Gordon Robertson, keep a watchful eye on Stewart.Many people remember 'Buster and Bandy' at this location in the 1960s. However, 'Teddy' was the first bear in 1933. Teddy lived for 31 years at Price's Log Cabin.On July 28, 2021, Marie Danielle-Smith wrote for Maclean's Magazine (excerpt): In 1932, when a new stretch of Highway 7 was paved between Kaladar and Actinolite, Merritt Price, a retired United Church minister, saw an opportunity. Price bought up an old Lutheran church and used its logs to start building what would become a landmark along the route. His sons, Bruce and Bud, opened a restaurant in the new log cabin—and welcomed its first bear—in 1933.“The original log cabin was very attractive,” says Evan Morton, curator of the nearby Tweed Heritage Centre. “Their dining room was highly acclaimed.” It wasn’t just a restaurant, but a kind of motel, too. The Prices would welcome weary travellers to stay overnight in several smaller, rudimentary cabins on the property.The bears, Morton is at pains to emphasize, were rescued cubs that would have otherwise been killed in the wild. In the Price brothers’ care, in cages adjacent to the restaurant, they lived longer-than-average lives. The first, Teddy, lived to be 31. Two others, Buster and Bandy, were captured in 1950; they died in 1974 and 1978, respectively. “They enjoyed Coke and Pepsi and chocolate bars and ice cream,” Morton says. “But Bud Price always made sure they had a balanced diet.”View the entire Maclean's article and additional photos: macleans.ca/society/greyhound-bus-stop-log-cabin-restaurant/Part of the Mary (Hope) Forbes AlbumNote: Commercial use of this image is prohibited without CDHS permission. All CDHS Flickr content is available for personal use providing our Rights Statement is followed:pioneer.mazinaw.on.ca/flickr_statement.php |
| 撮影日 | 2025-11-30 10:50:41 |
| 撮影者 | Cloyne & District Historical Society , Cloyne, Canada |
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