The Sawchucks, who were mentioned in connection with Brent, are represented at Daventry by Bernard and Rita Sawchuck, where Bernard was section foreman on the railway for many years. Their sons Ray (Babe) and Ron (Sonny)-both now retired from the CNR- and their wives have a cottage there. Their wives, Marlene Gleason and Dawn Carol Gleason, are the daughters of Lester Gleason, the former fireman on the Fossmill logging railroad.

Andy Grant, the park ranger, shown in the photo with Ray Sawchuck, is preparing to fight a fire at Daventry. He is remembered in the following poem that says:
 

"When you step from the train you're sure to see Andy, the Mayor of Daventry The man who handles the fishing school When he shakes your hand he doesn't fool."

His wife Jessie is recalled in:
 

"Well, here you are at the end of the trail Mrs. Grant is sorting the mail She knows you're starved by your hungry look And Boy! Does she ever know how to cook."

Andy's father came to Daventry to work in a sawmill there, and Andy followed him briefly before becoming a park ranger. For decades Andy provided licenses, watched for fires and poachers, and rescued lost campers. 

On several occasions he retrieved bodies of drowned victims. The body of Damasse Pigeau, a section man who drowned late one fall when his canoe overturned, was not found until the following spring. Two Americans were retrieved from the fast water of the Amable du Fond. In 1924, a devastating fire forced Andy to put his wife and children on a raft on the lake while he soaked the house with water to save it. Andy was not allowed to build a larger than normal ranger's cabin at Daventry to accommodate his family, so he built a home of his own nearby. It remains today as a Grant cottage. The ranger's cabin was burned by the ministry when no longer needed. Near the end of his career, Andy was relocated to the south side of the park, where he reported to friends later that one of his jobs was to burn numerous cabins and huge piles of ministry canoes.

Rita Sawchuck, now in her 80s, knows Daventry better than anyone. She went there with her husband Bernard- the section foreman-in 1948, and had the two children mentioned above, who grew up there and still camp there today. As section foreman he had a house provided, but he chose to build his own house which is now the family cottage. The section house was occupied by some of his section crew. Rita provided the photo of Andy Grant and the photo of the class at the Daventry school. The teacher on the right is Norm Grant, Andy's oldest son. The other children were from the mill worker's families at the local Doug Campbell mill, which had several houses on site.
 

The Daventry school class on photo day. Norm Grant (back right) is the teacher. Ray Sawchuck is second from the left in the front, and Ray Sawchuck is on the far front right.

The Flint Ink Company came to Daventry many years ago in specially adapted boxcars which were used for company staff for fishing vacations. When the Campbell Lumber Company stopped functioning, the Flint company took over the office building as a permanent cottage and use it each spring. Ray and Ron Sawchuck and their wives provide maintenance and cooking on those occasions. Rita Sawchuck talked about the McGaughey cottage at Daventry, which appears to be the location of the story reported here recently about the three North Bay girls who vacationed in the park in the mid-30s. The lease on the cottage was allowed to lapse and the buildings have been removed.

Don Lloyd, in his book Canoeing in Algonquin Park (2000), notes that there was a large sawmill west of Daventry on Club Lake in the 1920s. A Narrow gauge railway ran the short distance from the mill to the CNR line. There were ten buildings on the site, including two dwellings with fireplaces and large verandahs. After the war, Doug Grant, one of Andy grant's sons, received a veteran's grant to operate a tourist camp there.

The Alger family, who own the Alger Press in Oshawa, is the one other long standing family with a camp at Daventry. The people mentioned above have a deep affection for Daventry and hope they will be able to continue their quiet existence there for some time to come.