It was located in the waters controlled by the Walpole Island Indian Reservation.
From what I was told, they closed it because the clubhouse and grounds needed a lot of work but the members weren't willing to pay all the money unless the Indians gave them a longer lease.
The Indians refused and so ended the oldest club in Canada. Again, just what I was told by a local, maybe not the whole story or the right story.
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV
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