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Bon Echo Provincial Park in southeastern Ontario is known for its lakes, forests, and especially Mazinaw Rock, a towering cliff marked with Indigenous pictographs that became a National Historic Site of Canada in 1982. After a lumbering and farming era, Weston A. Price established Bon Echo as a strict Methodist resort in 1889. Howard and Flora MacDonald Denison later remade it into a celebrated artistic retreat, and Flora had lines from Walt Whitman carved into the rock in 1919. After fire destroyed the inn in 1936, Merrill Denison donated the land to the province in 1959, leading to the park’s opening in 1965.
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