Bethune Memorial House is the Victorian manse where Norman Bethune was born in 1890. The Parks Canada site follows him from small-town Ontario to experimental surgery, public-health politics, the Spanish Civil War, and his celebrated medical work in China.
It is a more interesting stop than a normal birthplace museum because Bethune's life kept widening. In Gravenhurst, it gives the town a story that reaches far beyond Muskoka.