This scarce pioneer real-photo postcard shows the log cookery building at the Temagami Company’s logging camp, c. 1902-1907, which was 24 miles east of South River, Ontario in Paxton Township. About three dozen men pose for this picture, taken by a photographer named McDermott — Was this Patrick McDermott of South River?

The sender, a young man who marked his place on the front of the postcard with an “X,” wrote to his sister, Mrs. J. H. Findlay of Braeside, ON, saying: “What do you think of this bunch? This is the cookery and all or near all the men except a few of us. Tell Annie she can have the one marked x at the bottom and you can take your pick. How is the vest coming up? Better make a summer one. Yours, W. D. S.” No trace of the logging camp remains.

Further information is sought on the intriguing photographer, Mr. McDermott.

See another scarce Temagami postcard.

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