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TURNING THE FIRST SOD AGAIN
Recreating the Start of the CPR in 1875 “Tuesday the first of June, 1875, will be a day long remembered in the annals of the District of Thunder Bay, as well as throughout the whole Dominion of Canada, as the day upon which the first sod was cut upon the Canadian Pacific Railway.” Thus began
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MINING DAY @MARINA PARK, THUNDER BAY
June 14, 2025, 10th Anniversary of Mining Day, was a beautiful day in the mid 20s. Hundreds of people flocked to take in the exhibits, grab some eats, and watch their kids having a great time. Geese grazed on the manicured lawns, far beyond the din, and the Federal Dee (or it might have been
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NEXT DOOR TO A GOLD MINE
Geraldton, Ontario In the 1930s, Geraldton was Queen of the Little Long Lac Gold Field. Today, the town is a ragamuffin crouched in the doorway of a multibillion-dollar extraction enterprise. On Monday, May 12, I paid a visit to Geraldton, my old home town, and man! did I pay ̶ in the coin of depression
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NO. 7 MARTIN HUNTER SERIES – Long Lake Indians : Part 2 of 2
If an Indian took a four point H. B. blanket, even with the rough usage it was subjected to, it would keep him and his wife warm for a year. The next season, a new one being bought, the old one did service for another winter as lining for mittens, strips for socks, and leggings
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NO. 7 MARTIN HUNTER SERIES – Long Lake Indians : Part 1 of 2
[PREAMBLE It is recommended that the reader study this chapter before proceeding to “NO. 6 MARTIN HUNTER SERIES – Nipigon”. In the No. 6 chapter, the writer, T.A. Reynolds, makes these remarks: “…[A drunken] Indian came staggering over the threshold . . . When liquor was first brought into the country the Indians nearly ruined
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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. 5, MARTIN HUNTER SERIES – The North Shore: Part 2 of 3
I would suggest for the preservation of our fast disappearing game(1) that a Government game protector be appointed without delay to patrol this part of the country from Missanabie to Nipigon, during the winter months, especially during the height of the snow or when it is crusted. I venture to think the Canadian
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NO. 5, MARTIN HUNTER SERIES – The North Shore: Part 1 of 3
In the course of my recent journey from Montreal to Nipigon, via the Canadian Pacific Railway, I desired to see the whole of Lake Superior’s wilds by daylight, and accordingly instructed the porter, when I retired at North Bay, to awaken me at Chapleau. The attendant was prompt, and after a good night’s rest
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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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