arbara McMartin called Canada Lake “one of the prettiest in the Adirondacks.” The prolific author—who wrote about everything Adirondack, from hiking to history to clashes over environmental policy—chose to live on Canada Lake’s shore, and she wasn’t the only one besotted by the blue expanse. Grand 19th-century hotels, like the sprawling Fulton House and the four-story Auskerada, hosted flocks of pilgrims to its fish-rich waters;
