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Posted by admin on October 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment
We never did find out who created this video of vintage postcards from our Mattawa collection and put it on YouTube, but we like the results and the rousing Stompin’ Tom tune.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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