Jumping Cariboo Lake played an important role in the logging industry from the early 1900s until the late 1920s.

An extensive network of dams and log chutes were constructed in the area – Allowing the old growth timber harvested to be sent downstream to the saw mills in Sturgeon Falls.

In the summer of 1941, Osborn was instrumental in getting Warner Brothers to film Captains of the Clouds (starring James Cagney, Brenda Marshall, Dennis Morgan and Alan Hale Sr.) on Jumping Cariboo Lake.

There are six generations of Herman Osborn's family still enjoying summers on Jumping Cariboo lake.

There was the promotion of a sort of New Quebec and this concerned the Government of Ontario that had done very little to establish itself in what was mostly unknown bush.

He had visited Jumping Cariboo Lake during his original survey for the route of the railway and again as a contractor building the nearby section of the Ferguson Highway and in the 1930s decided to build his retirement cabin on the property today owned by his grandchildren Jane Stollery Pearce and the Honourable Peter Stollery.

Winter sports in the area include ice fishing, cross country skiing, dog sledding, snowshoeing and snowmobiling.