Lake of the Woods History & HeritageFront and rear hinges lightly reading-creased, wrap edges lightly worn. Gift inscription first page, also date and author's signature in a different ink and hand. Pages are clean. Binding as new.
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Author: King, Stuart
Publisher: The Author
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Many readers probably have listened with fascination to parents and grandparents tell tales of pre-railway days, (1882), when passengers and freight came here from Fort Frances by Boat.
There was the "KEENORA"; "Edna Brydges"; " The Monarch"; "The Swallow" and "The Shamrock" making the round trip three times each week. Then there were stories of the arrival in Town, periodically. of bricks of solid gold from area mines. Twenty thousand dollars was not an uncommon value given to the shipments. Concentrates were additional, prompting eastern papers to call this 'Ontario's Klondyke'. The days of shipping sturgeon out by the carload have vanished but can be verified by photos.
Northwestern Ontario has been uniquely slow at being settled. Water routes via Hudson's Bay and the Great Lakes opened Manitoba and Minnesota much earlier. That fact makes the history of Lake of the Woods and area "almost modern".
This book attempts to recall some detail of our transitional periods which witnessed the development of today's modern Kenora.
Proud moments should be recorded - and remembered. - from Why "History and Heritage"?Book Price: $35.00
