Cottage care in Pointe au Baril

The most seasonal place I serve

Pointe au Baril sits in The Archipelago, on the east coast of Georgian Bay, where the lighthouse has marked the channel since 1889 and a monument near the Ojibway Club remembers Champlain passing through in 1615. Nowhere on my patch is more seasonal: The Archipelago counts about 12,800 seasonal residents against 979 permanent ones, across more than 2,300 surveyed islands. For the mainland side, the shore roads and everything with a driveway off Highway 69, the work is cottage watch at $99 a visit on the bi-weekly plan, openings and closings in spring and fall, and a storm call after a big blow. Pointe au Baril is a Zone 2 drive for me, so flat-rate jobs add $50, and that's printed here, not discovered on the invoice.

Now the honest part: most cottages at Pointe au Baril are on the water, and I don't run a boat today. Island freight and barging is its own trade with decades-old operators here, and I won't pretend otherwise. If your place is water-access, I'm not your caretaker yet. If that changes, this page will say so.