Temiskaming Treasure Trails
1923-1933 Vol. 7
by Peter Fancy
With the price of silver at a record low, Silver Centre in 1934 has disappeared and Cobalt's mines will relentlessly continue closing. Until only one old-time area silver producer survives in Gowganda.
Yet a leap in the price of gold does have Porcupine and Kirkland Lake exploding with energy. And the discoveries of Matachewan become mines while Larder Lake finally reveals its golden hiding place.
Skeletal schemes and make-work relief handouts barely sustain Temiskaming's unemployed. But when another World War pays soldiers a confident wage their money begins to flow into stores, factories, new jobs and more pockets. Fewer skilled people, however, stay to do the daily work. And rationing shrinks their bread as food, clothing, lumber, metals must go to fight the war. Then it ends. And Temiskaming's pulse can heartily beat again.
The 1945 Tri-Town beat is strong. New Liskeard plans a new hospital and a community centre. Haileybury's mining school promises jobs for returning war veterans and Leo Gough's Northern Ski Club scheme for the old King Edward property beside Cross Lake will bring a tourist use to Cobalt's broken hills. But mining men are also following Leo's Mayfair Mine truck to the southeast Keewatin diabase corner of Coleman township: where rumours persist of silver-cobalt discoveries which could bring the old Cobalt camp back to Tri-Town working life.
And here ends my Temiskaming Treasure Trails attempt to revive a sense of our northern past.
Passionate Tri-Town pioneers first sang of Temiskaming, in voices so strong they often fought for solo parts. Yet over the years a neighbourhood sense of common choir emerged. And like the winds over Lake Temiskaming the old towns are still gathering closer together in harmonious strength, sharing a future they originally made possible for all of northeastern Ontario. May the Tri-Town voice grow stronger still!
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ILLUSTRATIONS
1. William Glennie Nixon
2. Shepherd-Morris Matabitchuan River landing place
3. Jonasons' Montreal River landing house
4. Isaac Bonin
5. Nancy Bonin (Joliooeur)
6. Bonin's homestead house
7. Pete Bonin's family
8. Montreal River bridge
9. Matabitchuan schoolhouse
10. Matabitchuan Settlement view 1934
11. Montreal-Matabitchuan map area
12. John Y. Smith
13. Old Fort Temiskaming, Lake Temiskaming
14. Cobalt's T.&N.O. station grounds
15. First orchestra in Cobalt, 1933
16. Elin Oslund, daughters Esther and Vera, Nat Oslund
17. Neil Oslund, daughter Edna, Gunhild Oslund, daughter Lillian, Thor Nilsen
18. Swedish Church, Swedetown, 1915
19. Shipping mining equipment up the Montreal River from Elk Lake to Matachewan
20. Mclsaac-Kennelly buses, McGuire's garage, New Liskeard
21. Elizabeth Whitney
22. St. Joseph's College, North Cobalt
23. Bush planes at Haileybury airport
24. Doug McDonald's aircraft at Haileybury airport
25. Noice's drugstore, Haileybury
26. Bill Tuer, Campbell Atkinson, Barbara Tuer, Ted Atkinson, 1935
27. Trenching a surface vein
28. Bob Hennessy and dog team, Reamsbottom Street, Haileybury
29. Bear Island Hudson's Bay Company post, Lake Temagami
30. Haileybury Public School grade 2 class, 1937
31. Swastika T&N.O. station grounds
32. Roza Brown, Kirkland Lake
33. Roza Brown's last Government Road stand, Kirkland Lake
34. Alert, steamboat, Lake Temiskaming PA-112-633
35. Haileybury tennis courts
36. New Liskeard looking north
37. Alco Hall, Montreal River, 1926
38. Haileybury Golf Club
39. Cobalt Street, Cobalt
40. Temagami boat docks, OAC-2960-515933
41. Thornham and Tripp families, Cobalt
42. Cobalt Street churches, Cobalt
43. New Liskeard beach
44. Cobalt Square
45. Silver bullion, Nipissing Mine lease
46. Fishing at Mattawapika Falls
47. Park Royal, Lake Temiskaming
48. Ella, Alert Beaver, steamboats
49. Log booms, Lake Temiskaming
50. Fort Temiskaming, 1939
51. Main Street, Haileybury, 1905
52. New Liskeard Beach Park
53. New Liskeard Beach Park raceway
54. Government Road West, Kirkland Lake
55. O'Brien Mine tramway to Mileage 104 mill
56. Mileage 104 map, 1939
57. Lakeview Avenue, North Cobalt
58. Haileybury Rotary Club members' picnic, Mud Lake, 1939
59. Strand Theatre staff, Haileybury, 1940
60. Northern Nash Motors, Cobalt, 1939
61. Giroux Lake Public School
62. Haileybury dock area
63. Wabis River at New Liskeard
64. New Liskeard Beach
65. Forestry Company at Haileybury Armouries
66. Sunnyside Tourist Camp
67. Magistrate Atkinson, Haileybury Courthouse
68. New Liskeard cadets marching to Haileybury T.&N.O. station
69. New Liskeard cadets marching to Haileybury T.&N.O. station
70. New Liskeard cadets marching to Haileybury T.&N.O. station
71. Haileybury Public School class, grade two, 1940
72. George Kennedy, New Liskeard
73. Whitby's Pharmacy, Haileybury
74. Robertson's Garage fire, Cobalt, 1933
75. Algonquin regiment tent camp, New Liskeard Beach Park
76. Algonquin regiment tent camp, New Liskeard Beach Park
77. T.&N.O. train 47
78. Cobalt town view
79. Installing electrical plant at Miller Lake-O'Brien Mine, Gowganda, 1914 v
80. Haileybury High School and Mining School staff and students, 1942-1943
81. New Liskeard, Wabis River mouth
82. Airplanes at Haileybury airport
83. Haileybury High School
84. St. Paul's Haileybury boys' choir
85. Haileybury, Ferguson Avenue looking south
86. Haileybury, Ferguson Avenue looking north
87. Prospectors' and Developers' Association meeting, Hotel Haileybury
88. Snowmobiles, Farr Avenue, Haileybury
89. North Cobalt boys on ski trek
90. New Liskeard Victory Chorus
91. Joseph and Mary Isherwood
92. Haileybury High School bums, February 14, 1945
93. Haileybury High School bums, February 14, 1945
94. Haileybury High School ruins
95. Whitewood Avenue, New Liskeard
96. Provincial Institute of Mining advisory council, Haileybury
97. Ausic Mine, and Silver Cliff mill, Cross Lake
98. New Temagami boat docks
99. Fort Temiskaming, 1945
100. Mining School, Haileybury
101. Northern Ski Club, Cross Lake