Category: Longlac
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NO. 2, MARTIN HUNTER SERIES – Preface to True Nature Stories
TRUE NATURE STORIES(1) by T.A. Reynolds (pen-name Martin Hunter)(2) Mr. Reynolds lived at Long Lake Post (modern Longlac) ca 1875 where he was a clerk with the Hudson’s Bay Company. In Longlac he married Elizabeth Finlayson, an Indian lady.(3) In retirement at his Brockville, Ontario home, “The Last Camp” he wrote articles for several…
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E.C. EVERETT SERIES, NO. 1 – Traveling Salesman
The Huckster(1) From 1917 to 1944 I continued making weekly trips on the Canadian National Railway from Nipigon to Hornepayne and sometimes as far as Foleyet by wayfreight(2), box car, dog team, velocipeder (3), bicycle, or by walking the track carrying anything from a packsack and two big suitcases up to six trunks filled…
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1943 CROSS-CANADA HIGHWAY
from The Fort William Daily Times-Journal, December 18, 1943 Geraldton-Hearst Highway Scenic Drive You can cross Canada by automobile today. For the first time in the country’s history, a motorist can start in Vancouver and drive to Halifax on all-Canadian soil. That’s what completion of a stretch of 150 miles of road between Hearst…
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