Category: Nipigon
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NO. 5, MARTIN HUNTER SERIES – The North Shore: Part 3 of 3
Leaving Heron Bay (named, by the way, after Frank Heron, a half-breed trapper who had his hunting shack here in the olden days), we wind about the lake shore to Peninsula, abbreviated from “Peninsula Harbor”. North, east and south the harbor is well protected, but with a wind from southwest I should think it would…
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NO. 4, MARTIN HUNTER SERIES – East of Nipigon: Part 3 of 3
BEFORE THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY ̶ AND NOW Leaving Montreal by the Canadian Pacific train no. 1 going west, the luxurious mode of travel of the present day unfolds itself.(1) We leave at 10 a.m. on Saturday and at 6 p.m. Sunday I am at Nipigon, distance 926 miles. Compare this with the early…
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NO. 4, MARTIN HUNTER SERIES – East of Nipigon: Part 2 of 3
BEFORE THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY ̶ AND NOW During the summer months we had three mails a month, delivered by the Sarnia boat and we wrote our reply to our mail ready for the next trip ten days hense. In winter we had one mail a month delivered by dog team from Port Arthur.…
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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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MARTIN HUNTER SERIES, NO. 1 – Dealing With a Desperado
T.A. Reynolds Served Forty Years(1) Retired H.B.C. Fur Trader Interviewed at “Last Camp” By W.M. Conn MR. T. A. REYNOLDS(2), after serving for nearly forty years inland for the Hudson’s Bay Company, retired in 1903 and returned to civilization, settling at Brockville, on the St. Lawrence. There he built a most delightful rustic home and…
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1940 TRUCKING FROM ST. BONIFACE TO GERALDTON
Truck Takes Load From St. Boniface to Mining Center (Special to the Times-Journal)(1) GERALDTON, Mar. 1. ̶ A new record for the highway to Geraldton was set with the arrival of John Reuter here last night. (2) Mr. Reuter, who is president of a manufacturing company of that name, brought in over 2800 pounds of…
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