George A Young, Mining Broker
by Peter Fancy
The preservation efforts of Paul Young, his brother Peter and their sister Sally, the papers of their great-uncle George A. Young have found their proper place in the history of Northern Ontario. These papers detail the essential and all too-forgotten mine-making role that people like George Young played behind the scenes. The claims broker made the emergence of mines possible by negotiating option-to-purchase agreements between prospector's mineral discoveries and developers' risk-management skills.
From his first pioneering arrival in 1905 Cobalt, George Young followed the successive rushes of mining camp to newly-discovered mining camp.Through South Lorrain, Elk Lake, Gowganda, Porcupine, Kirkland Lake, Red Lake, and Abitibi he travelled in search of mining claims to sell.
Besides recording a personal and business journey, his correspondence reveals a man of generous character whose sense of fairness won him both friends and business praise. With a brokerage office in Toronto George worked the last twenty-six years of his devoted northern life, to leave Temiskaming a stronger place for his having been there. His good-humoured perseverance survives in the letters we read today.
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ISBN: 0-88954-436-0 | WMPub#1177 | 8½ x 11"
260 pages; 118 illustrations; Hard cover | $44.95
Table of Contents
Illustrations viii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
1. A Mining Broker Born 1
2. The Argyle Mine, A Hard Lesson 20
3. A Lesson Learned 44
4. On To Other Camps 55
5. Back To South Lorrain 67
6. Grenfell-Kirkland Gold Mines. 1923-1924 85
7. Ross-Powell Claims. Gull Lake 98
8. Ross-Powell Gull Lake Syndicate 110
9. Red Lake 125
10. Renewing Bellellen Silver Mines 134
11. Bellellen Lorrain Mines Limited 156
12. Grenfell-Kirkland Gold Mines. 1926-I928 l68
I3. Gull Lake Claims. Kirkland Eastern Gold Mines 183
14. Grenfell-Kirkland, Abitibi Coal Fields 191
15. Other Syndicate Searches 202
16. Final Brokerage Footsteps 2l4
Bibliography 225
Index 227