Claybelt Tapestry
Weaving the Past
Volume 2
This book is a collection of little-known or forgotten happenings, endeavours and businesses in the early South Temiskaming District. Many businesses or institutions are no longer with us, and so documenting their existence provides a unique view into the area's history.
Knowledge of many of these little-known or forgotten happenings, endeavours and businesses in the early South Temiskaming District is now only remembered by a ever-decreasing number of seniors. The files of the Temiskaming Speaker were invaluable in chronicling some of these activities.
No attempt was made to re-write some stories. The Fire of 1922 is covered extensively in the book The Great Fire of 1922 [ISBN: 0-88954-413-1]. Northern Telephone's history is covered in Northern Calling [ISBN: 0-09699418-0-3]. The T&NO Railway has been documented in various, more-extensive histories such as: The Northern Connection: Ontario Northland Since 1902 [ISBN 0-921801-83-1]; and A Century of Travel On The Ontario Northland Railway [ISBN 0-9730521-1-2].
The Museum has shared what we know so that many of these stories are not totally forgotten. Any corrections or additional information can be sent to the Museum, where we can keep the documentation together, preserving our past as accurately as we can.
Go here for a look at the Index. | Go here for the Table of Contents
ISBN: 978-0-9921605-1-7 | WMPub#7968 | 8½" x 11" | 120 pages; perfect bound | $30.00
Table of Contents
Included in this volume are:
6 ZPG-2 U.S. Naval Blimp
9 Calamity Gulch
13 Carter's Speedway
16 CFS Ramore
19 TB Christmas Seals
21 Cobalt's Royal Exchange / Fraser Hotel
27 Curfew Bell
30 Fillingham's General Store
33 Haileybury IODE (Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire)
36 Haileybury Jail
47 Splint Factory, New Liskeard
48 Hill's Lake Fish Hatchery
52 H.M.C.S. New Liskeard
53 Liskeard Woollen Mills
55 Mink Farming
59 Mugwump - Tessie - Lake Temiskaming Monster
61 New Liskeard College of Agricultural Technology
65 Temiskaming Music Festival
67 New Liskeard Beach Grandstand and Racetrack
70 New Liskeard Ski Hill
75 New Liskeard Water System
79 New Liskeard Yacht Club
81 New London
83 Newspapers in Temiskaming
88 Shepherdson Casket Works
90 Sunnyside
93 Temiskaming Agricultural Office
95 Temiskaming and Hudson Bay Mining Company
97 Temiskaming Producers Co-operative
102 Three Boys - One Pair of Skis
102 Kenneth Kearney, James McAuley and William Stoughton
103 Timiskaming Professional Hockey League
105 Uno Park Lamb Fair
107 Volunteer Womens Auxiliary Drivers Corps
108 White River Mail Line
111 Windsor Hotel, New Liskeard
113 A War Story