When Jack MacDonald was working as a ranger in the early 1930's, he would often drive up and down the Mississagi River road (highway 129). Every time he drove by, Jack would stop and gaze at the location which is now Limberlost Lodge, and he would admire the charming sand beach and the beautiful scenery. In 1933 Jack obtained a lease from the Sault Ste. Marie Crown Lands office for that property, but in 1934 the lease was annulled and instead Jack MacDonald owned a deed for the very area which he had cherished for so long.

Jack constructed the buildings out of local lumber, with only his wife Bess to help. His tools included an axe, a hammer, a level, and a crosscut saw. From 1939 to 1945, Jack was working away from home in the summer, so the camp progressed rather slowly, but it was finally operating by 1946 with 5 cabins and the lodge.

In 1951, MacDonald and Clarence Hodge (owner of the Outpost at the time) attempted to convince the other cottage owners on the surrounding lakes to get electricity, but as they could not get enough financial support from the others, MacDonald and Hodge split the cost. Within a year, most of the other cottage owners had decided to get electricity, so MacDonald and Hodge no longer had to pay such high costs.

While the MacDonalds owned Limberlost, the entertainment included Friday night movie-and-popcorn and the occasional sing-alongs performed by guests. Bess and Jack had American-plan at Limberlost, which meant that Bess had to cook for the guests as well as managing the staff, taking care of her kids and entertaining the guests all at the same time. She was truly a hard-working woman.

Ed Kissau had been the manager of a company which manufactured the wings for the AVRO Arrow airplane, the fastest airplane in the world at the time. When the Diefenbaker government cancelled the construction of the plane, Ed began looking towards the tourist business. Ed and Doreen Kissau bought Limberlost, in partnership with their friends Ray and Barb Zoller, in 1957. The Zollers moved to the camp in 1958, and the Kissaus in 1959. The Zollers moved away soon after. Ed turned the cabins into housekeeping units, as he and Doreen no longer wanted to continue with American-plan. He also built a new cottage, and added on to the Kissaus' mobile home, where they lived during the winter.

Ed and Doreen owned Limberlost Lodge until 1970, when they sold the camp to some people who owned it for about a year. As the camp life didn't work out for those people, the Kissaus' son Larry bought the camp in 1971.

In 1983, a German tourist group came to the camp, and this group included one pretty young German girl, Ute. She loved Chub Lake so much that she wrote to her mother, for a joke, that she was going to marry the camp owner and live at the camp. This scared her mother, although Ute had been kidding. But after falling in love with the loons and Larry, and many air miles between Canada and Germany, Ute and Larry decided to be married and live their life at the camp. When Ute had written that letter to her mother, little did she know that what she said would one day come true!

Because Ute became so enthralled with the loons when she came here, she volunteered for the Canadian Lakes Loon Survey. While working with this, she read an article which stated that 50% of loons found dead had died from effects of lead. The lead is found in the sinkers from fishing tackle which loons sometimes mistake for gravel when feeding. Larry and Ute looked into leadless sinkers, and not being able to find any to buy, they decided to learn how to make their own. With the help of a friend/inventor they bought bismuth, learned the proper chemical mixtures, and in 1992 started the Bi-Logic Tackle Company. This company sells a variety of leadless sinkers, and helps to save the lives of local waterfowl including, of course, the loons.

Ute and Larry are still the owners of Limberlost Lodge. The camp now consists of 6 cabins, the lodge, 2 outpost cabins and 1 outpost site. They also own another cottage on Chub Lake which they occasionally rent to good friends.