Sunday afternoon, June 23rd, at Waverley Park. About 200 people turned out to celebrate its 150th Anniversary. People sprawled in fold-up chairs or on the green sward (that’s a word that’s at least 150 years old). About a hundred metres from where we (sister Sue and I) sat, Roy Coran’s Big Band was belting outContinue reading “150 YEARS? MAYBE.”
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Sapawe : Village of Memories
In my casual reading today, what should pop up but the names of Tom Johnson and Tony Oklend. Johnson and Oklend, discoverers of the Little Long Lac gold mine in what is now called Greenstone. A week ago, I picked up a volume at a book fair: The Sage of Sapawe: Woodland Writings. It wasContinue reading “Sapawe : Village of Memories”
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”
Beardmore’s Struggle With Empire
In 1925 Beardmore was just another lonely flag stop on the CNR line at Mileage 20.5 (measured from Jellicoe). Beardmore consisted of a section house (CNR property) and a section gang (a railway maintenance crew). Then someone struck gold at Mileage 19.5. Beardmore Gold Mines Ltd. worked the prospect for years with little success. InContinue reading “Beardmore’s Struggle With Empire”
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