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WrecksdaleWreck • 11 years ago
Mining locations established 1848 by Montreal interests. Native concerns over European Settlement lead to surrender of Indian lands under jurisdiction of Hudson Bay Co. (north of Severn River) by Robinson Treaties of 1850 at Sault Ste. Marie.
Oldest settlement in Northern Ontario. In 1902 concerned residents formed a committee to arrange relocation of cemetery from center of the unorganized village. Correspondence with Provincial Secretary led to the creation of the Town of Bruce Mines.
No finacial hard times, Pratt & Shanacy (of Midland) closed the mill in 1927 when they ran out of timber to cut. They kept the store open, but acquired another mill to run near Bala. The Biscotasing mill was sold, dismantled and moved in 1838 to Standard Chemical Co. at Harcourt, now the location of Pine Grove Camp.
The original 1910 Canadian Northern Railway crossed Vermillion River south of the town and again west of town to a third (present) crossing of the river west of the rail yard. The rails were relocated after the CNoR line from North Bay was built in 1915. This place was originally named Orefields because of the presence of Iron Pyrite in the soil surface.
My grandfather worked there as a security guard from 1928. He lived in a house on west side of the park and moved to the east side after the park closed. I've been there in the 50s and 60s and did all that.
There was another old box car about 60 feet west of that one, the lunch room/office for CN employees working at the quarry. Both were former freight cars modified for work train service and finally here. The other car has been removed to a property near Uptergrove.
I worked at Uhthoff as a CN car mechanic in the late 70s and late 80s inspecting and servicing railway stone cars. We only used that car for storeage of wood excelsior for packing hopper doors and slope sheets of cars to prevent fine crushed stone particles from leaking out of the loaded cars.
Sorry... I don't know how to find coordinates, but if you scroll the map down to the main body of the lake, Hayhurst Point is the large peninsula where the Cairn is and the Mowat townsite is directly west of there. The road that ends by the lake is where the mill was. algonquinmap.com (western section)
Lauder, Spears & Howland contracted with Schroeder Mills & Timber Co. to build and run the sawmill at Lost Channel. The mill was built by 1917 and Howland insisted building a railway to it.
Lauder, Spears and Howland began their partnership with a leased sawmill at Mowat. Lauder and Spears had operated a mill at Wilberforce from 1904. At the same place L.B. Howland was manager of IB&O railway.
Schroeder Mills & Timber Co. contracted the sawmilling to Lauder, Spears and Howland. Lauder and Spears previously owned a sawmill at Wilberforce and L.B. Howland former manager of the IB&O insisted on building a railway from Pakesley to the new mill at Lost Channel.
The CPR railway between Sudbury and Bala was opened to traffic in June 1908 and 11 months earlier between there and Bolton.
Messrs. Spears & Lauder operated a sawmill at Wilberforce from 1904. After IB&O was taken over by CNoR, Lauder, Spears and Howland built the Key Valley Railway in the Parry Sound District. The end of one story is the start of the next.
IB&O railway was built by Charles Pusey and Howland Jct. was named for his son-in-law Lucien B. Howland, Manager of the railway until it was taken over by Canadian Northern.
I don't think there was ever an enginehouse there, but there was a turntable. IB&O was taken over by Canadian Northern Railway in 1913, while the Victoria Railway was owned by Grand Trunk. It all came under Canadian National after 1921, but until then they were two independent railways.