Sundridge, Ontario: Military History and the 162nd Battalion
This historically significant Azo Tri 1 real-photo postcard, dating to World War I and a 1914-1918 time frame, shows troops from the Canadian Expeditionary Force (C.E.F.) posing at the Queen’s Hotel in Sundridge, Ontario.
A Glimpse of Commanda, Ontario in Parry Sound
Commanda, in the Parry Sound District of Ontario, is located about equidistant between Trout Creek and Golden Valley. It served as a way station on the Old Nipissing Road, also known as the Rousseau-Nipissing Colonization Road, which was one of the last routes built to encourage immigration to the Near North. James Arthurs (1866–1937), who would later go on to establish the 162nd Infantry Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in 1914 opened a general store at Commanda in 1885.
Logging in the Paxton Township East of South River, Ontario
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?
