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At the beginning of World War II, Horseshoe Bay was still a summer resort. Then, during the 1940's, shipyard workers started looking for homes on the North Shore. They bought up the summer houses in Horseshoe Bay and the resort became a year-round village practically overnight.
The demand for service became so great that Dan and sons Art and Tom decided to build a two-story boathouse on the south side of the bay. The tide would come in and out of the bottom floor and a boat lift, one of the first in Canada, would raise boats from the water to the first level for work to be done. Then Art decided to go into business for himself and took over Bay Boats in the center of the bay, leaving Tom to run Sewell's. |
