Rotary Club of Lindsay

The Rotary Club of Lindsay has had a great influence on our community and other communities around the world.

A history celebrating 85 years of service (1922 - 2007) provides the following information:

A team headed by W.R. (Billy) Widdes and encouraged by District Governor Hart I. Seely was formed to promote a Club in Lindsay. Their efforts were successful, and the Rotary Club of Lindsay was Chartered on May 1st, 1922. Though not a Charter Member, future Premier of Ontario joined the Club in the late summer of 1922. The Right Honourable Leslie M. Frost wrote in 1972.- "The days of 1922 were quite different from the present, Lindsay was about half its present size, there were virtually no highway systems into Haliburton County, motoring to Toronto was a very considerable operation, our country was far from merging into a welfare state, and accordingly public service projects were quite different from those of today." Mr. Frost served a President of the Club in 1926-1927 and once remarked "I worked about as hard as when I became Premier nearly a quarter of a century later."