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      This video captures the Pool 6 Elevator demolition in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The video is in mpg format and is 15 seconds long. To view the video please click the Video (mpg) link on the right side of the page.

      Photograph of the hotel built by Oliver Daunais ("The Silver King") at Beaver Mountain Mine, a small mining community near Stanley. The boom in silver mining attracted American investors to Northwestern Ontario. Port Arthur Illustrated 1887

      Photograph of a fishing party aboard the tug the "Hattie Vinton". On board with the others are two of the owners, Harry Servais, shown standing on the right, and Joe Servais, at the back. Joseph Servais and his brother Harry were both residents of Port Arthur. The two worked for …

      Photo taken at Savant Lake, November 1927. From left to right: A. Doonan, Murdock Mosher, Alex Mosher. Doonan did not make the trip. Collin Ferguson came with us.

      Three hundred feet of the Paquette Dam were affected when a one hundred fifty foot opening in the dam let water through. Five men were killed with the wreckage of a train when it ran headlong into the riverbank.

      The spring of 1908 was a season of extremes with May temperatures in the mid 80's. In the middle of May, the rains came, causing streams to swell. Shortly before midnight on May 27 a 200 million cubic foot, 20 foot high wall of water began surging down the Current …

      Photo showing the swollen Current River. The flood of 1908 caused the loss of lives, power outages, and destruction of property, making it one of the Lakehead's greatest tragedies.

      Photo showing the CPR train wreck at Current River, May 28, 1908.

      Photo showing the damage done to the flumes, as a result of the flooding of the Current River, May 27, 1908.

      Photo showing the Current River Disaster. Heavy rains and flooding caused the tracks to be washed out, resulting in the derailment of a CPR freight train at Current River Park.

      Photo showing the destruction to the Paquette Dam caused by heavy rains and flooding of the Current River., The rains poured from mid May, swelling streams already engorged by sudden spring runoff. At the foot of a steep valley, a few miles downstream from the Onion Lake Dam, the smaller …

      A leisurely afternoon in the park. Three canoes float in a placid section of the Current River, Port Arthur, near its mouth . A man stands beneath the trees on the shore., Just two years earlier, flood waters roared through this area, changing the shoreline completely. The Paquette dam had …

      On May 27, 1908 heavy rains increased water levels of rivers and creeks that flowed into Onion Lake. Just before midnight, the dam broke, uprooting trees and carving new channels into the landscape. North of the CPR bridge was washed away, causing a CPR freight train to crash into the …

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      Bush plane bringing in supplies to Pakwash Bay, 1946.

      Gravel Trucks being transported from Sioux Lookout to the Ear Falls construction area by scow. Once they reached the shore, trucks were driven to English River, where they were loaded onto other scows.

      Tomlinson Bros. Contractors were awarded the contract to build the highway to Red Lake, Ontario in 1946. Truckers, Bert and Harold Mcgonicle pose by their trucks in a gravel pit near Ear Falls, Ontario. The road building required the clearing of 1325 acres of land and the excavation of 400,000 …

      Black and white photograph depicts the head frame of the No. 1 mine shaft located in Geraldton, Ontario.

      Black and white photograph of a headframe to a mine shaft near Geraldton, Ontario.

      Black and white photo of one of the gold mine operations near Geraldton, Ontario.