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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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1947 MURDER IN GERALDTON : Part 3 of 3
Reviewed by Don Crosby, a journalist in Durham, Ontario. Dead and Alive, a novel by Jane Bow, published in 1993. This novel is based on the trial records of Rodger Pearse Brown, who in1971 gave himself up to Vancouver police authorities because of hispossible involvement in the unsolved murder of a cab driver outside ofGeraldton, Ontario,…
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1947 MURDER IN GERALDTON : Part 2 of 3
This story appeared in The Winnipeg Tribune, Wednesday, April 23, 1947. The Geraldton Times Star did not cover this story. (Continued in Part 3)
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1947 MURDER IN GERALDTON : Part 1 of 3
This story is posted in Canadian Taxi Driver Homicides: Albert Richer (taxi-library.org). ALBERT RICHER, GERALDTON, ONTARIO / APRIL 20, 1947 Albert Richer, 22, was shot to death seven miles from Geraldton on the evening Sunday, April 20, 1947, after picking up a man from a hotel taxi stand. He had been hired by Gerald Lemontaine,…
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1897 TRIP ON THE ATIK-OKAN RIVER : Part 3 of 3
After another hour’s progress we camped for the night at the eastern end of the lake[17], and at six o’clock next morning proceeded on our way along Bruly [sic] River. A little way up this stream our “bow” Indian[18] ejaculated “Chemung, chemung” (Chippewa for canoe), and sure enough approaching us from the east we…
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1897 TRIP ON THE ATIK-OKAN RIVER : Part 2 of 3
The next interesting point we came to was Sabawe Rapids. Sabawe [8] in Chippewa [9] means “drowned”, and here, nobody knows how long ago, an Indian princess lost her life, since when no Red man [10] has been known to run these swift waters. On Indian Grounds Portaging around this this part of the…
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1897 TRIP ON THE ATIK-OKAN RIVER [1] : Part 1 of 3
AMONG THE ALGOMA MINES [2] The World’s [3] Young Man on His Tour of Inspection MOOSE IN CLOSE QUARTERS This New Ontario [4] District Seems to be a Veritable Hunter’s Paradise **** Animal Life to be Seen Everywhere ̶ Indian Camping Grounds ̶The Eastern Con- tinuation of the Atik-okan Iron Range ̶The Lakes and Rivers…
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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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TIME TRAVEL TO ATIKOKAN – Part 2 of 2
For lunch we met Linda and Cheech, life-long friends, to whom we last spoke twenty-five years ago. We ate Chinese at the Nite Club. Nobody wore evening dress. The fog was lifting, and before we left the sun was shining ̶ as per the forecast. Hey, Environment Canada is entitled to be right once in…
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TIME TRAVEL TO ATIKOKAN – Part 1 of 2
On Thursday, September 12, Environment Canada promised sunshine and warmth. At 7:00 a.m. in Thunder Bay, it was dark and foggy. The fog persisted for 200 kilometres, all the way to Atikokan. My sister Sue and I picked up our coffee mochas at Timmys. Any trip longer than 5 klicks demands a coffee mocha.…
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