Photo of Burton Arlington Warnica, known as Bert or Burton Warnica (1910-1969). Bert was born on his parents' farm on the 25th Sideroad of Innisfil to Samuel Warnica and Pearl Soules. Bert married Minnie Thomas in 1932 and had three children: Walter, Douglas, and William. Bert had not wanted to carry on farming and had a small fleet of trucks for haulage, including for everything from gravel to furniture to ice. He also had trucks and drivers working on logging near Barry's Bay. He owned an ice business where he and his men would harvest ice from Lake Simcoe at Big Bay Point and store it in his ice house, which was originally the barn for the Robinson House in the 1800s. They would later deliver it to the houses and cottages along the Lake Simcoe shore. With the advent of the electric refrigerator Bert gave up the ice business and turned to carpentry, building and renovating many house in the Big Bay Point area until his death by car accident at Painswick in 1969. This photo was taken on the family farm, lot 26, concession 13 in Innisfil and shows Bert standing in snow wearing a long coat.
