The Kinmount Shoe Tree Legend

The Kinmount, Ontario Shoe Tree was reportedly started in the 1940′s by a gentleman named Bill Boland who retired to Kinmount and built a home there because of his love for the beautiful, unspoiled woods and terrain. Bill was familiar with an ancient native Indian tradition that said that if you hung a pair of moccasins on a sacred tree it would bring you good luck. Bill started his own shoe tree on a white pine near the front of his property with one pair of shoes. Soon thereafter other pair...