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3 – EARLY DAYS : New Home

from The Big Move In 1933, the Kenny family moved from tents at Hardrock to their new log home in Geraldton. Their old home became a woodshed. It had had a single room on one end for the Kennys and another on the other end for the Delbridges. “Our new house had three rooms-aContinue reading “3 – EARLY DAYS : New Home”

TOM JOHNSON had no trouble finding mines

Tom (left) and Bill Johnson, 1936. Credit Johnson Family Album. This article was published on Saturday, May 11, 2024, in Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal. In the summer of 1931, “Hardrock” Bill Smith staked claims on Kenogamisis Lake and sparked a short-lived gold rush. A year later, Tom Johnson, prospector, drawn to that lake, aka Little LongContinue reading “TOM JOHNSON had no trouble finding mines”