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      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 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 …

      Also P3529

      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.

      Canoes on water with rapids(?) beyond surrounded by trees. Signed at lower-right.

      This photo shows people clearing away the wreck from the 1908 Current River flood disaster.

      Reverse: "PUBLIC ARCHIVES MSS. DATE DEC 30 1958"; also, [handwritten] "MacPhail Papers, Vol.10, File 3" and notation "rec'd from Mrs R J [French?]". Signature on the back is probably Agnes Macphail's.

      Map housed at the Brodie Resource Library

      typed transcript (1969) of the original 1897 manuscript, from a copy made in 1901.

 Orillia Packet & Times, 2 Jul 2015, Section B, p. 1     ...

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