Len’s Cove Marina – Our Proud History

The Early Years

The story of Len’s Cove Marina starts on The Beaches – not on Big Rideau Lake, but in Toronto. It’s where Len & Shirley Horsfall started their family, raising two young boys, Doug and Steve, during the baby boom of the early 1950’s. About that time, the Horsfalls bought a cottage in the Kawarthas, where Mom and the kids would spend their summer holidays and Dad would commute on weekends. It was such an exciting place for Doug and Steve! While Dad was away, Shirley and the boys would row a mile to the cottage resort down their lake for groceries and ice. In 1956, a new boat provided the chance to cruise up and down the Trent visiting friends on Pidgeon and Stoney Lakes. Those were good times.