Temiskaming Treasure Trails
1916-1922 Vol. 6
by Peter Fancy
Besides crushing the fields of France and cities of Belgium the European, war tramples the daily lives of Temiskaming. Too few men are left to work the silver and gold mines. Too little food and clothing are left over from the war effort. Then another bush fire smothers hundreds of people fleeing along the ribbon of T.&N.O. line from Cochrane to Sesekinika. And blacker grew Temiskaming newspaper pages already filled with weekly lists of war casualties in Europe.
Since 1911, Cobalt's mines found less and less silver. And then the metal's price declines. Priced so low many of the starving mines had to close. Yet at war's end the price bounces so high even the hungriest mines can boast of rich earnings. Then the price slips back. And those mines crippled by shrunken veins no longer have the money to find new silver strength. After fifteen years of lusty life, they now collapse.
Out of the wealth and skills of Cobalt days, though, the mines of Porcupine and Kirkland Lake were born. And prospectors who once picked apart the township rocks of Cobalt, Elk Lake, Gowganda, Larder Lake and Abitibi are burrowing ever deeper into the Temiskaming bush. Out of the lost wilderness of New Ontario has emerged the clear-eyed character of Temiskaming mines, farms and tourist takes. While every year pioneer settlers bare their muscles to colour more of this ancient Laurentian land a lasting pink.
It was still a dangerous land for on October 4, 1922, another monstrous fire burns holes across the map of Temiskaming. Careless wind-crazed flames swell from the Montreal River through Charlton east to North Temiskaming, through Haileybury south to the edge of Cobalt. Always a dangerous land, one in which the peoples of Temiskaming learn to live together..
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ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Beaver Consolidated Mine
2. New Liskeard market place
3. Sirr's New Liskeard store
4. Coniagas and Nipissing mines
5. Nipissing Stamp Mill
6. Iroquois Hotel fire, South Porcupine, May 24, 1916
7. Rahn Bees Company
8. Captain Magladery and fellow army officers in France, No. 3 Company, 15th Battalion
9. Nipissing Central Railway employee wages, 1916
10. Haileybury market building, PA130105
11. New Liskeard fire brigade wagon
12. Casey-Cobalt Nfine, Casey township
13. Buffalo Mine
14. Recruitment parade, Ferguson Avenue, Haileybury
15. Prospect Avenue, Cobalt
16. Cobalt, North Cobalt, Haileybury, New Liskeard T.&N.O. employees
17. Cobalt view, 1916
18. Canadian army camp, Salisbury Plain, England, 1917
19. Rev. John Popey
20. James Nathaniel White
21. New Liskeard wharf
22. Ferry crossing Quinze River, North Temiskaming, Quebec
23. N.C.R. trolley, Ferguson Avenue, Haileybury
24. Map: Teck township mining ground
25. Crown Reserve Mine
26. New Liskeard Presbyterian church pageant
27. Haileybury view from Lake Temiskaming
28. New Liskeard funeral
29. Elk Lake hotels, advertisement
30. Diagram: diabase sill, Cobalt
31. Chambers-Ferland Mine
32. Hollinger stope, Porcupine
33. Dome Lake Mine, Porcupine
34. New Liskeard army recruit
35. Eplett's new factory, New Liskeard
36. Lake Shore Road between Florence and Probyn streets, Haileybury
37. Haileybury lakeside view
38. Haileybury market
39. N.C.R. snowplow
40. Cobalt Lake drained dry
41. Pittsburgh Lorrain (Currie) Mine
42. Temiskaming temperatures, 1895-1918, Haileybury Meteorological Station
43. Brewster Street houses, Haileybury
44. Springtime walk, New Liskeard
45. New Liskeard Opera House
46. Providence Hospital, Haileybury
47. Rear of Montgomerys' house, moustached Bill Wright sitting with friends
48. Montgomery's First Street houses, Haileybury
49. Meteor trip
50. Teck-Hughes Mine
51. New Liskeard Fall Fair, 1919
52. New Liskeard Fall Fair, 1919
53. New Liskeard Fall Fair, 1919
54. Haileybury huntsmen
55. N.C.R. trolley, Armstrong Street, New Liskeard
56. Tough-Oakes-Burnside Mine, Kirkland Lake
57. Prince of Wales reception, Cobalt T.&N.O. station, October 17, 1919
58. Prince of Wales reception Cobalt T.&N.O. station, October 17, 1919
59. Cobalt, North Cobalt, Haileybury, New Liskeard T.&N.O. employees, 1919
60. Haileybury business advertisements
61. Trethewey Cobalt Silver Mine
62. Hawkesworth's beach garden farm, New Liskeard
63. Horse and buggy
64. Cobalt business advertisements
65. North Cobalt Public School
66. N.C.R. trolley, Whitewood Avenue, New Liskeard
67. Map: Haileybury businesses, 1920
68. Cobalt reduction mill
69. Cobalt, Elk Lake, Gowganda, Englehart T.&N.O. telegraph and telephone employees, 1920
70. Royal Exchange building, Cobalt
71. North Cobalt T.&N.O. station
72. Wallace and Carr blocks, Cobalt, 1913
73. Cobalt mines' silver production, 1904-1920
74. Norman Strong's Rorke Avenue house, Haileybury
75. Arthur Slaght's Georgina Avenue house, Haileybury
76. Swastika business advertisements
77. New Liskeard business advertisements
78. Frontier and Keeley mines, Silver Centre
79. Foster's hunt camp, Temiskaming Height's subdivision, Haileybury
80. Grading the golf links, Haileybury
81. Nathaniel and Mary Jane White, Haileybury
82. North Cobalt Public School, grade IV class, 1921v
83. Lakeshore Road north, Haileybury
84. Map: North Cobalt business section, 1921
85. Ville Marie dock
86. Haileybury wharf
87. Cobalt Public School
88. Lynn haulage tractor, Silver Centre
89. Cobalt business advertisements
90. Frontier Mine staff, Silver Centre, 1922
91. Florence Whitney, LakeView Avenue, North Cobalt
92. England's Bakery, New Liskeard
93. New Liskeard business advertisements
94. Temiskaming farm field
95. Englehart T.&N.O. station
96. Cobalt business advertisements
97. Map: west end of Browning Street, Haileybury, 1922
98. View from Haileybury hospital across Georgina Avenue
99. Lakeshore Road fire scene, New Liskeard October 4, 1922
100. Haileybury Public School
101. Haileybury High School
102. Haileybury T.&N.O. statio
103. Ferguson Avenue-Main Street intersection ruins, Haileybury, October 5, 1922
104. Ferguson Avenue ruins, Haileybury October 5, 1922
105. Ferguson Avenue ruins looking west from former site of Alex MacLean's studio, Haileybury
106. Ferguson Avenue ruins looking south from former site of Alex MacLean's studio, Haileybury
107. Liggett store and Main Street ruins, Haileybury
108. Piche boat in better days
109. Haileybury dock ruins
110. Haileybury Main Street ruins
111. Hudson Bay Mine, Cobalt
112. Holy Cross Cathedral ruins
113. Map: path of October 4, 1922 fire
114. Tough-Oakes assay office
115. St. Joseph's College, North Cobalt
116. Assumption Convent ruins, Haileybury
117. Emergency Union Bank office, Haileybury
118. Fire relief truck load
119. Emergency post office, Haileybury
120. Haileybury relief station, foot of Probyn Street
121. Haileybury Court House and Registry Office
122. Relief Station bulletin board and policeman, Haileybury
123. Armouries, Haileybury
124. Court House, Haileybury
125. Fireman Gervaise Sutherland funeral, Haileybury, October 8, 1922
126. Jimmy Elkins' butcher tent, Presbyterian church ruins in background, Haileybury
127. Doing business in streetcars, Haileybury, PA 54983
128. Judge Henry Hartman
129. Judge Gordon Haywood
130. Streetcar home, building a side porch, Haileybury, PA 5497
131. Streetcar home, Methodist church ruins in background, Haileybury, PA 54974
132. Insulated streetcar home, Public School ruins in background, Haileybury, PA 54985
133. Food and fuel supplies arrive by boat at Haileybury dock, late October 1922
134. Looking cast from Amwell Street-Ferguson Avenue comer, Haileybury, October 27, 1922
135. Looking west up Main Street, Haileybury, October 27, 1922
136. Cobalt silver mines' production, 1904-1922
137. Cobalt mines' dividends and bonuses paid to December 31, 1922
138 Haileybury ruins viewed from T.&N.O. tracks, Georges' lone house