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uth McGuirl has fond memories of visiting her grandmother’s cottage on Three Mile Lake, Ont., in Muskoka as a child. “It was a tiny cabin with two bedrooms,” McGuirl recalls. “We were sleeping three kids to a bed.” Ruth and her four siblings would go fishing off the dock, climb the pine trees

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