This info is reproduced from a Facebook page, people from Beardmore Ont. Info supplied by Susan Lind nee Sinclair. The truck appears to be transporting raw lumber. Roy Tansley was a major Beardmore logging contractor, and “Empire” is the alternate name for the rural community of Tansleyville, now part of Beardmore. No modern map recognizes Tansleyville, but the World Wide Web still does!
Tansleyville, a local name, was located just west of the Blackwater River, on Hwy. 11. A few hundred metres east was the site of Northern Empire gold mine, on the east bank of the river. The mine townsite was named Empire when it acquired a post office. Empire was a kilometre and a half north of Beardmore. At that time Beardmore was merely a CNR flagstop with a section house.
The production stats for Camp 51 are nothing short of amazing, over an operating period of 20 years. That production must be some kind of record for a near-permanent bush camp. This dormitory bush camp was located east of Jellicoe, about 40 km from Beardmore. Camp 51 was just south of the highway, east bank of the Sturgeon (Namewaminikan) River.
More history will be found on the post Beardmore’s Struggle With Empire.
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