Wiancko House was built in the early 1900s by their son, Harold Wiancko. The hotel featured regular baseball games, wiener and corn roasts, dances and masquerade nights, square dances, shuffleboard, and sing-songs on Sundays. Harold’s son, Maurice, continued to operate the hotel and Post Office until 1972 when it was sold. In 1982, although no longer operating as a resort, the hotel became the realistic set for the horror movie Humongous, and was later demolished.
Compiled by Steve Stanton and David Stanton from SLHS archives, with credit to “See You Next Summer,” by Bruce M. McCraw, Toronto, 1998, and “Severn River,” by James T. Angus, Orillia, 1995.