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Posted by admin on September 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment
This charming cabinet card documents the work of Canadian photographer Bruno Charron, who worked as a photographer and barber in Mattawa, Ontario between at least 1882 and 1922. We believe this portrait of the Napoleon Fink family dates to about 1889.
Filed under Mattawa · Tagged with Bruno Charron, cabinet card, Canada, Canadian history, Canadian photographer, Canadian photography, history, Mattawa, Mattawa photographer, Napoleon Fink, Nipissing, Nipissing District, Nipissing history, Northern Ontario, Ontario, Ontario history
Posted by admin on March 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment
A 1904 patriotic private postcard which shows that Old Home Week and a “Champlain celebration” were held as early as June 1904 in Saint John, New Brunswick. This is the earliest Old Home Week postcard we’ve personally seen.
Filed under North Bay · Tagged with Canada, Canadian exploration, Canadian history, explorer, festival, history, New Brunswick, New France, Nipissing, Nipissing District, Nipissing history, North Bay, Northern Ontario, Old Home Week, Ontario, Ontario history, patriotic postcard, Saint John, Samuel de Champlain
Posted by admin on March 7, 2010 · 4 Comments
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. Was the photographer Patrick McDermott of South River?
Filed under South River · Tagged with Canada, Canadian history, history, logging, logging camp, Nipissing, Nipissing District, Nipissing history, Northern Ontario, Ontario, Ontario history, Parry Sound, Parry Sound district, Parry Sound history, Paxton, Paxton township, South River, Temagami, Temagami history, timber
Posted by admin on January 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment
One of Bear Island’s early buildings, which survived until 1973, was the Lakeview House, where the TFN (Temagami First Nation) recreation center is now located. Seen here in a c. 1920s real-photo postcard, it was a two-story substantial L-shaped residence known as “Old John Turner’s place.”
Filed under Bear Island, Temagami · Tagged with Bear Island, Bear Island History, Canada, Canadian history, Canadian tourism, history, Lakeview House, Nipissing, Nipissing District, Nipissing history, Northern Ontario, Ontario, Ontario history, Temagami, Temagami First Nation, Temagami history, Teme-Augama Anishnabai, tourism
Posted by admin on November 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment
An 1851 Canadian black 12 pence stamp sold for $260,000 USD last week in New York City — the highest price ever paid for a Canadian stamp.
Filed under Philately · Tagged with Bill Gross, Canada, Canadian 12 pence stamp, Canadian history, Canadian philately, Canadian stamp, Charles Shreve, history, New York, New York City, philatelist, Philately, PIMCO, postage stamp, Queen Victoria, Smithsonian National Postal Museum, Spink Shreves Galleries, stamp, stamp auction, stamp collector
Posted by admin on August 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Early map of the Great Lakes, printed in Bordeaux, France in 1795. Early French and British explorers of Canada would go on to create the voyageur’s route, with fur trading an important part of the economic development of both Mattawa and Temagami, Ontario.
Filed under gallery · Tagged with Bordeau, Canada, Canadian exploration, Canadian history, cartography, exploration, explorers, France, French exploration, Great Lakes, history, map, Mattawa, Nipissing, Nipissing District, Nipissing history, Northern Ontario, Ontario, Ontario history, Ottawa River, Temagami, voyageur, voyageur route
Posted by admin on August 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Fishermen in canoes on a wilderness lake in the early morning mist in Northern Ontario. Lake Nipissing and the waters of Temagami in Northern Ontario are popular Canadian fishing areas.
Filed under gallery · Tagged with Canada, Canadian history, canoe, canoing, history, Lake Nipissing, Mattawa, nature, Nipissing, Nipissing District, Nipissing history, North Bay, Northern Ontario, Ontario, Ontario history, Ottawa River, sports, Temagami, voyageur, voyageur route
Posted by admin on August 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Sometimes heard but seldom seen, the grey wolf or gray wolf (Canis lupus), is an Ice Age survivor; it can be dated back 300,000 years to the Late Pleistocene period. It is plentiful in Northern Ontario, especially in the Algonquin Park area of the Nipissing District.
Filed under gallery · Tagged with Canada, Canadian history, Canadian wildlife, Canis lupus, gray wolf, grey wolf, history, natural history, Nipissing, Nipissing District, Nipissing history, Northern Ontario, Ontario, Ontario history, wildlife, wolf
Posted by admin on August 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Northern lights, or Aurora Borealis. Often seen in Northern Ontario and in the Nipissing District.
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Posted by admin on August 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
A red fox (Vulpes vulpes) in a snowy forest at Temagami, in Northern Ontario, Canada.
Filed under gallery · Tagged with Canada, Canadian history, Canadian wildlife, history, natural history, Nipissing, Nipissing District, Nipissing history, Northern Ontario, Ontario, Ontario history, red fox, Temagami, Vulpes vulpes, wildlife
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