The opening cottage scene is AI-generated artwork with a separately animated motorboat, water, mist and sunrise. It is an imagined setting, not footage of a real cottage or named Ontario lake.
The daylight motorboat footage is by K on Pexels, used under the Pexels licence. Its location is unconfirmed. It has been cropped, retimed and combined with the opening scene using two-second dissolves.
Earlier film options, preserved locally: NORLING Fishing and Jelly Marketing, under the Pexels licence. Neither canoe clip appears in the current homepage sequence.
Quiet shoreline option: Leon Labuschagne, Pexels licence. Illustrative location, not identified as an Ontario lake.
Algonquin Park canoe: Dave DiAngelo. Kawartha Lakes beach: Laura Stanley. Restoule sunset: apertur 2.8. All under the Pexels licence, resized and converted to WebP.
Lake Muskoka by WookieInHeat, under CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized, converted to WebP and displayed with responsive cropping. The adapted image remains available under that licence.
Common loon yodels by Darwin Long and Peter Otto, under CC BY-SA 2.5. Archived original Ogg and MP3 conversion. The current website does not play this recording. This recording and its conversion retain that licence. No endorsement is implied.
Regional photographs added in the morning review: Paudash Lake area autumn scene by Lake Central, public domain; Beausoleil Island east shore by Explorers’ Edge, CC0; and Lakeshore Beach at Sandbanks by Maxime Laterreur, CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and converted to WebP, with responsive cropping. The Sandbanks adaptation retains that licence. The Lake of Bays tile uses a labelled illustrative Restoule scene.
Type: Cormorant Garamond by Christian Thalmann and DM Sans by Colophon Foundry, Jonny Pinhorn and Indian Type Foundry. The inherited Playfair Display family is by Claus Eggers Sørensen. Google Fonts distributions use the SIL Open Font License; copies are kept in the local asset manifest. Jeff and Emily photographs are the existing team assets supplied in the Mudrick site.