Business View Magazine | June 2022

193 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 6 single one! That lake is home base for lots of activities. In the warmer months, there are boat rentals and boat cruises, canoes, kayaks, paddle boats, and an inflatable water park. And of course, fishing. In the winter, guests enjoy ice fishing and ice skating. In addition, the resort provides complimentary equipment for snowshoeing, cross country skiing, and tobogganing. And the fun just keeps on going with biking, hiking, tennis, yard games, shuffleboard. There are also indoor activities for rainy days: a pool, playground, pool tables, ping pong tables, and an exercise room. Stanton reports, “There is just a tremendous amount of things to do for families. We have a really great following of people that caught on to this resort in the 1940s and 1950s. These families come to our resort year after year. They make it a summer tradition. You actually see a generation kind of pass through. Kids grow up and then bring their families back. I’ve grown up here and I’m sure many guests could attest to seeing me grow up here at the resort.” The Stanton family has deep roots in the area. The town is even called Port Stanton. Captain Tom and his wife Ellen Franklin, along with their sons, Frank and Albert, are the founders of the resort. The first lodge was built in 1898. When the railway came in, there was a train station on the property. Albert and Frank Stanton even had a little shop called Stanton Brothers General Supply Store. There were steam ships that sat at the docks… People would get off at the train station and then the steamships would be there to pick them up and take them to all the different little lodges and campsites on Sparrow Lake. That earned it the name, Port Stanton. “I think my ancestors would be very proud,” Jason Stanton says. “I think they would be surprised that there are still members of the Stanton family that work here today. And I think they would be very proud of everything that we’ve BAYV I EW WI LDWOOD RESORT