Temiskaming Treasure Trails
1910-1915 Vol. 5
by Peter Fancy
Out of the 1910 struggles for minerals, lumber, hydro power and roads, New Ontario continues to grow. Beginning to charge the mines and mills of Cobalt, electricity from river dams on the Matabitchuan and Montreal overflows into Temiskaming towns. Noah Timmins outbids Cobalt rival, M.J. O'Brien, for the golden quartz of Porcupine and shapes his future role in Canadian mining. Riled by insolent Nipissing Central Railway's tracks, the older T.&N.O. first scorns the trolley car antics then wins them over in a convenient marriage; branch and spur line children follow into Porcupine, Iroquois Falls, Elk Lake, Haileybury and New Liskeard. While more mine, sawmill, farm sidings bristle up and down the main north-south line. And surveyors measure mileages beyond to James Bay.
Miners hoist more silver up Cobalt shafts than ever before, but its metal price goes down. Townsites rise around the discoveries of Porcupine, but forest fires level them flat. And two Englishmen find gold beside Kirkland Lake. Then an American talks of more beneath.
Cobalt's mines, Haileybury's judicial seat, New Liskeard's farms lead the northern Ontario way. From Quebec's remote Lake Temiskaming shore smoke-stack steamers trade passengers and cargoes with Ontario docks. Tugboats tow provincial logs between. Whirring along the lake's western ridge from Kerr Lake Junction, Cobalt, Mileage 104, Argentite, North Cobalt, Haileybury, Moore's Cove to New Liskeard, trolley cars ring a community bond.
Yet Tri-Town jobs will grow scarce. The lower price of silver drives smaller mines to close. A stale demand for lumber slows sawmill dust. Then a war in Europe starts. And soldiers march away, leaving Temiskaming to tougher times.
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ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Bellellen Mine, Silver Centre
2. Old Fire Hall, Sharpe Street, New Liskeard
3. The Cobalt Song
4. Cobalt Mess
5. Dome Mine, Porcupine
6. First official N.C.R. trolley arrives at Haileybury
7. Ferguson Avenue, Haileybury
8. Silver Centre government dock, steamer Jubilee arriving
9. A winter sleigh ride
10. Cobalt Square
11. Grill's store, May Street, New Liskeard
12. New Liskeard view from south, looking towards spur line and LakeShore Road intersection, Bishop's Palace and George Taylor house
13. Haileybury N.C.R. trolley tracks, Ferguson Avenue and Browning Street comer
14. Baseball game at Farr's Park, Haileybury
15. Baseball game spectators, Haileybury
16. Atkinson's Main Street house, Haileybury, 1910
17. View of Lake Temiskaming, LakeShore Road, Haileybury
18. Map, Cobalt mining properties
19. A Coleman township road
20. McKinley-Darragh hockey team
21. Haileybury baseball championship team, 1910
22. McKinley-Darragh staff
23. Crown Reserve Mine
24. Nova Scotia mine and mill
25. Flow sheet, Cobalt stamp mills
26. Coniagas stamp mill
27. Campbell and Deyell sampling plant, Cobalt
28. Unloading horses for Elk Lake, at Flat Rapids
29. Changing Montreal River boats, Flat Rapids portage
30. Wettlaufer-Lorrain Mine
31. Miner's home and family, Silver Centre
32. Map, mineral discoveries, 1903-1909
33. Hollinger mining camp, Porcupine, 1911
34. Northern Customs Concentrators, Cobalt
35. Compressed air blow at Ragged Chutes, Montreal River
36. Haileybury waterfront, foot of Main Street, 1911
37. Coniagas Mine, Nipissing's Meyer shafthouse in foreground, Cobalt
38. Street car, Main Street-Ferguson Avenue intersection, Haileybury
39. Cobalt T.&N.O. station
40. First Porcupine T.&N.O. branch line train
41. Golden City, Porcupine
42. Dome Mine fire survivors, July 11, 1911
43. Golden City, Porcupine
44. Golden City, Porcupine
45. N.C.R. trolley terminal, Vendome Hotel, Haileybury
46. Haileybury Presbyterian church and manse, 1911
47. Cobalt football team, August 14, 1911
47. Tom Longboat race, Farr Park, August 19, 1911
48. Foster's Main Street house, Haileybury
49. Brown farm, Chamberlain township
50. North Cobalt T.&N.O. station
51. Assumption Convent being built. Nellie Codd and daughter Dorothy in foreground, Haileybury.
52. Cobalt mines' record silver production, 1911
53. Cobalt silver vein, Temiskaming Mine
54. Cobalt mining dividends, 1911
55. Old Mission picnic, Lake Temiskaming
56. Cobalt view from south end of Cobalt Lake
57. New Liskeard T.&N.O. station
58. Piched Point wharf, Lake Temiskaming
59. J.A. Dunseath's Livery, Meridian Avenue, Haileybury
60. Haileybury's new Methodist church, 1912
61. Haileyburians at N.C.R. stop, Vendome Hotel
62. N.C.R. trolley turns at Blackwall Street-Ferguson Avenue comer, Haileybury
63. Lang Street, east side up from Square, Cobalt
64. Lang Street looking towards T.&N.O. station, Cobalt
65. Matabanick Hotel front porch, original Haileybury Public School in background
66. Haileybury fire engine and hose wagon practice beside Preston's store
67. Herbert Day, Russel Street home front yard, Haileybury
68. Haileybury business section summary, 1912
69. Holy Cross Cathedral, Convent and Dr. Codd's house, Haileybury
70. Cobalt fire, June 5, 1912
71. Cobalt fire ruins, June 6, 1912
72. Cobalt fire ruins June 6, 1912
73. Boats docked at Haileybury
74. Maple Leaf Hotel, Haileybury
75. Cobalt Foundry, Campbell and Deyell's plant at viewer's right
76. Temagami T.&N.O. station
77. Stitt House, Broadway Street, Haileybury
78. New Presbyterian church, Haileybury
79. Haileybury view from lake
80. Cobalt T.&N.O. station, burned Cobalt Hotel at viewer's left, Opera House at viewer's right
81. Energite Explosives Company staff, Haileybury
82. Map, West Road, Bucke township, 1912
83. Map, West Road, Firstbrook township, 1912
84. McKinley-Darragh-Savage orehouse
85. Lake Shore Road, Haileybury
86. Cobalt T.&N.O. station interior
87. Cobalt mining stock prices, 1907-1912
88. McKinley-Darragh stope work
89. Walter Little's Royal Mail team leaves for Kirkland Lake
90. Harry Holland, Bob Young, Alec Gillies, Weldon Young at T.&N.O. station, Haileybury
91. Map, Cobalt-Porcupinc-Sudbury mining region
92. Cobalt Comet (Drummond) Mine, Kerr Lake, Dr. Drummond's house at top
93. Englehart, T.&N.O. station in background, King Edward Hotel at viewer's right
94. Swastika village
95. Haileybury children
96. McKinley-Darragh Mil
97. New Liskeard championship bowling team, 1913
98. W.H. Elliott store interior, Armstrong Street, New Liskeard
99. Canada House Hotel across Wabis River, Upper Ontario Steamboat Company building at viewer's foreground left, New Liskeard
100. Train crosses Blanche River bridge, Englehart
101. Lumsden Mining Company, Brady Lake, Coleman township; Mines Power substation on background hill
102. New Liskeard swimmers at Sharp's Landing
103. New Liskeard Public School
104. Meteor steams up to Haileybury dock
105. Laird and Routly tent office, Porcupine, 1910
106. N.C.R. employee wage statement, 1914
107. Map, N.C.R. trolley route
108. Nipissing Mine's silver bullion shipment, February, 1914
109. Tough-Oakes bunkhouse
110. Springtime mud, New Liskeard
111. City of Cobalt Mine
112. Cobalt Townsite Mine
113. Elk Lake townsite
114. Elk Lake townsite
115. Haileybury race track, Farr's Park
116. Haileybury Reunion, July 13-18, 1914
117. George T. and Rosemary Smith
118. Haileybury Re-Union, July 13-18, 1914
119. City of Haileybury, steamship
120. Meteor picnickers, Montreal River Landing
121. Haileybury Public School entrance class, 1914
122. Charlton hydro electric power plant
123. Firemen's Reception, New Liskeard, August 18, 1914
124. New Liskeard harbour and dock
125. Northern Customs Concentrators, Mileage 104 mill
126. Cobalt Square
127. Draining Cobalt Lake, November 28, 1914
128. Cobalt district mines summary, 1914
129. New Liskeard T.&N.O. station
130. Valcartier military camp
131. Soldiers embarking, at ease behind Ferguson Avenue Public School, Haileybury
132. Soldiers embarking, top of Main Street at T.&N.O. station grounds, Haileybury
133. Dr. Henry Robinson Codd, wife Nellie and daughter Dorothy, Haileybury, 1914
134. Camp Borden army camp
135. New Liskeard wharf, January 22, 1915
136. Savage Mine mill dumps
137. Aerial tramway to Nipissing Mill, Cobalt
138. Eplett's ice cream factory, New Liskeard
139. Presbyterian church picnic, New Liskeard
140. Ville Marie dock, Lake Temiskaming
141. Dunbar Planing Mill fire, July 13, 1915
142. Haileybury fire hose wagon
143. Ed Faragher, Haileybury
144. Buffalo Mine's tailings pile
145. Draining Cobalt Lake, September 2, 1915
146. Jeanette and George Hamilton, LakeShore Road, Haileybury
147. Jory family, LakeShore Road, Haileybury
148. Olga and Stella Sirr
149. Sirr Boarding house, Murray Street, New Liskeard
150. Haileybury Armory
151. McKinley- Darragh Mill sand tables
152 O'Brien Mine and Mill, Cobalt
153. Lake Temiskaming geology