Local News from Across the Rainy River District
The History of the Rainy River District
The following pages are a testament to the history of Rainy River District. The articles appear as they did when originally published and have not been edited in any way. The articles, published in the Fort Frances Times and Rainy River Herald, describe how the area was developed including the gold rush around the turn of the century, the birth of the logging industry and how railways and highways opened the area to the rest of the country.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PHOTO ALBUM
THE GREAT GOLD RUSH
THE BIRTH OF THE LOGGING INDUSTRY
TRANSPORTATION —THE OPENING OF THE WEST
DEVELOPMENT
SETTLEMENT
MAJOR EVENTS —WAR, CRIME, DISASTERS, POLITICS
BIOGRAPHIES OF INTERESTING CITIZENS
Credits Feedback
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Excellent quality bleached pulp being produced The Fort Frances kraft mill, costing $45 million and acclaimed as the most modern in Canada, is now operating but still in the start-up phase, according to Jack Haase, mill manager for the Ontario-Minnesota Pulp and Paper Co. Ltd. Production of bleached pulp to […]
Why Fort Frances? Much Study Preceded Actual Construction How come the Fort Frances kraft mill? What economic and technological considerations guided O-M in it’s decision to invest $45 million in this facility? What’s the background for this immense expansion? The Ontario-Minnesota Pulp and Paper Company Ltd. studied the feasibility of […]
Large Crowd Attends Plaque Ceremony Ontario Premier John P. Robarts joined on the speakers stand at the West End Community Park Wednesday, by D. J. Sleeman, Patrick Ried M.P.P., Mayor Almo Marshall, Dr. E. S. Rogers, curator Ethnology Branch, Royal Ontario Museum, Mrs. Anna Smith, historian, Historical Branch, Toronto, former […]
Construction of Highway No. 11 between Fort Frances is and investment in the future, Prime Minister John P. Robarts, Q.C. emphasized in Fort Frances on Monday at ceremonies opening the 80-mile $20 million dollar Fort Frances-Atikokan highway and the naming of the $6.5 million causeway across Rainy Lake as the […]
The construction of a new road, particularly up here in the north country where there are not many roads, is an event of momentous concern to the people of any community. Certainly this is no less true of the completion of Highway 11. It will at long last unite the […]
And the economic influence its development had not only on Northwestern Ontario, but in hastening Highway Eleven. It required but a single day to complete the entire task. It was back in 1935, just 30 years ago. The Fort Frances Times required more subscribers and one of the ways to […]
This issue of the Fort Frances Times you are now reading is a product of the first “run” of the new Goss Cox-O_Type automatic roll-fed newspaper press which has been installed in the Fort Frances Times over the month.This modern newspaper press, of the latest design in its class, produced […]
One year ago the 44-year-old Fort Frances municipal telephone system was taken over by The Bell Telephone Company of Canada. The date was June 12, 1957. One of the conditions of sale was that Bell was prepared to introduce a new dial telephone system in Fort Frances.At 2 a.m. Sunday, […]
The Chamber of Commerce ceremonies to officially mark the commencement of work on the five million dollar Rainy Lake causeway went off with a bang at three o’clock yesterday afternoon- a Big Bang- literally, as well as figuratively. About 175 to 200 persons, representing communities throughout the whole district of […]
Conveyors From River, Truck and Rail Spur Feed Pulpwood by Hundreds of Cords to Mill The new Fort Frances woodroom which was placed in operation here in 1952, replaced facilities, a part of which has been in operation since 1914, when the mill was constructed. The old woodroom did not […]
No. 7 Machine Modernized This Spring to Complete Program Of Rebuilding Fort Frances Units With the rebuilding of the No. 7 paper machine this spring, the Fort Frances plant of The Ontario-Minnesota Pulp and Paper Company Ltd. now now can boast of three modern machines. The unit is the third […]
