Temiskaming Treasure Trails
1923-1933 Vol. 7
by Peter Fancy
From all parts of Canada railways have carried food and clothing to comfort south Temiskaming's 1922 townships. But most of all Temiskaming District further matures to help its fire sufferers rediscover their lost hopes. At the same northern time, though, Cobalt's legendary silver veins are shrivelling empty and the old camp's miners are following other Precambrian roads to golden Porcupine and Kirkland Lake. And while the promise of Rouyn gold turns into wealthier deposits of copper, Temiskaming prospectors rush on to distant finds at Red Lake, Patricia and Long Lac.
Left with two thirds of their 1922 town levelled, Haileybury's haggard people must mortgage their building futures. Nevertheless, within four years this District Seat can fully perform again its master of legal ceremonies role.
But not so high as before do Haileybury's steeples poke above Lake Temiskaming. And bone-thin among their piles of broken rock, Cobalt's shafthouses are falling flat. Yet, slowly stretching, New Liskeard's farming roots swell ever stronger within their deep belt of furrowed clay.
Writing of the 1908 Lake Temiskaming shoreline, Anson Gard spoke of "when New Ontario shall have been made a separate province, those who have a way of looking into the future ... make of New Liskeard and Haileybury one great city, with the capitol buildings on that magnificent site that lies between the two." But twenty years after this prophecy, Canada's financial world drags Temiskaming down into a bottomless depression where unemployed people stagger across pot-holed Tri-Town streets, and weed wild trees sprout over the 1930s land where cities might have been.
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Illustrations
1.Haileybury relief houses, Amwell Street west, 1923
2.North Cobalt church, LakeView Avenue, 1923
3.Frontier Mine's staff house, Silver Centre
4.New Liskeard Juniors, championship hockey team, 1923
5.Haileybury waterfront, May, 1923
6.Model T car wintering at Frontier Mine, Silver Centre
7.Nipissing Central Railway timetable, 1923
8.Dr. James Mackintosh Bell
9.Cows wandering among mine buildings
10. Russell Liscumb, at south stable-end of View Street house, Haileybury
11. Silver Shipments, Cobalt area, 1923
12. Miners
13. Map of Northern Ontario hydro-electric plants
14. Temporary school building, Latchford-Foster street comer, Haileybury
15. Anita Cahill with parents, Cobalt, 1905
16. Governor General Lord Byng & Mayor Armstrong, Cobalt, 1924
17. Curtiss HS2L flying boat, Haileybury
18. Angliers, Quebec
19. Cobalt Street
20. Siegfried Atkinson, Toronto street
21. HS2L flying boat, Haileybury dock
22. Louis Cohen and Dan Willan's houses, LakeShore Road, Haileybury
23. Meteor steamship on Lake Temiskaming
24. Fort Temiskaming, 1925
25. Oblate Mission, Narrows, Lake Temiskaming, 1920s
26. Haileybury business section, 1925
27. Lorrain Consolidated Mine, Silver Centre
28. United Church family christenings, North Cobalt
29. HS2L six passenger Flying Boat, operated by Northern Air Service Ltd. Haileybury
30. Silver Producers, 1925
31. Silver Shipments, 1925
32. Prospectors on the trail to Red Lake
33. Prospectors on the trail to Red Lake
34. Mining Recorder's office, Red Lake, 1926
35. Rouyn City, 1926
36. Rouyn City, 1926
37. Rouyn City, 1926
38. Rouyn City, 1926
39. Lady Minto Hospital, New Liskeard
40. Haileybury aerial view, May, 1926
41. Fred Amott's Kipewa River-Lake Temiskaming lodge
42. New Liskeard view
43. Haileybury Hotel, stock certificate
44. Bellellen Mine, Silver Centre
45. Bellellen Mine bunkhouse, Silver Centre
46. Silver Producers, 1926
47. Nipissing Central streetcar, LakeView Avenue, North Cobalt
48. Broadway Theastre, Nottie's taxi stand, Wood's barbershop, Haileybury
49. Georgina Avenue north, Haileybury
50. On the wharf, Haileybury
51. Ferguson Highway, Temagami Reserve
52. Armstrong Street bridge, New Liskeard
53. Route number 13, Ferguson Highway
54. Englehart bridge, Flighway #11
55. Ronocco Hotel, Temagami
56. Bear Island, Temagami
57. Tittensor store, Cobalt
58. Map of Ferguson Highway
59. Cobalt Public School classroom, 1928-1929
60. Patricia Airways plane
61. LakeShore Road-Florence Street north, Haileybury
62. Cobalt Square, PA-C37577
63. New Liskeard view
64. Browning Street view west, Haileybury
65. Map of Red Lake Mining Division
66. NCR operators, Quinn and Anderson
67. NCR operators, Lloyd MacMillan and Bert Normandy
68. NCR operators, Tommy Curie and Bill Parks
69. Nipissing Central Railway streetcar ticket
70. Cobalt Square
71. Major Cunningham -Dunlop's husky dog
72. Northern Ontario Power Company organization chart
73. Cobalt business section, 1928-1929
74. Grandview Ave. and Cobalt St., Cobalt, NA-86946
75. New Liskeard Fire Department
76. New Liskeard Kiwanis presentation of car
77. New Liskeard Beach, May 12, 1929
78. Lang Street, Cobalt
79. George T. Smith, T.&N.O. railway pass
80. Swimmers at Haileybury
81. Armistice Day - New Liskeard
82. Prospector Harry Holland, Grassy River
83. Matabitchuan transmission line, South Lorrain
84. New Liskeard Alerts
85. Dickson's Creek washout, June 26, 1930
86. Dickson's Creek washout, June 26, 1930
87. Fishing party on Montreal River
88. New Liskeard view west
89. Rosemary Smith and Haileybury friends
90. Haileybury, 1930
91. Haileybury view, 1930
92. Cliff top houses, Cobalt
93. Haileybury lime-kiln, 1930
94. Map - Quebec mines
95. Cobalt Lang Street bridge being built, 1931
96. Cobalt High School football team
97. Cobalt Mines Hospital
98. New Liskeard view - Wellington Street
99. New Liskeard business section, 1930
100 Mining School and High School, Haileybury
101. Robert Gamble's Brewster Street House, Haileybury
102.Haileybury Lumber Company yard, Kirkland Lake
103.Haileybury, 1932
104.Mowat's Landing, Montreal River
105.New Liskeard Alerts
106.Marten River tourist camp, Ferguson Highway
107.Temagami village, 1932
108.Canadian Chess Championship, September, Haileybury, 1932
109.Haileybury Chess Club, March 2, 1931
110.North Cobalt public school class, 1932
111.Haileybury Garage
112.Old mining plant, Young-Davidson Mine, Matachewan
113.Hollinger crew at Young-Davidson Mine
114.Weldon Young, Jack Davidson, Matachewan
115.Mine rescue truck
116.Casey Summit Gold Mines, Summit Lake, Patricia district
117.Empty ore car, Cobalt siding, Public Archives PA 86948