Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Mrs. Jamieson who resides in the vicinity of Flanders was reported to have been robbed with violence at her home Saturday night. Three men were said to have thrown a sheet over her head when she entered her the house and when she refused to tell them where her money […]
Over 1600 Million ft. Of Lumber Cut; Payroll Totalled $20 Millions The Shevlin-Clarke Co. Ltd, which operated Canada’s largest pine sawmill in Fort Frances from 1911 to 1940, has suspended operations and, by mid-June, will pass completely from the local scene. On June 5, 1911, the first logs were run […]
Patients in LaVerendrye Hospital will pay the following rates: Beds in public wards will cost $1.75 per day, which is the standard rate throughout the province. At the present, there are only 4-bed public wards in the hospital, so that even here the patient will have more privacy than in […]
From rumour the found little basis in fact early Canadian explorers dreamed of the discovery of the Western Sea, a short way to the advantageous trade from the east. Jacques Cartier had sought it, followed by Samual Champlian who reaching the Lake Nipissing and descending the French River, was the […]
LaVerendrye Hospital stands as an imposing monument to the early French-Canadian explorer, Pierre Gautier de Varennes, Sieur de LaVerendrye, as a symbol of the faith which the Sisters of Charity, Order of Grey Nuns, has in the future of our town. For LaVerendrye Hospital, rising prominently in clear view of […]
Will be Known as Ontario And Minnesota Paper Company; Kenora and Fort Frances Plants Are in the New Company MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Formation of the Ontario-Minnesota Pulp and Paper Company Limited under Letters Patent granted under date of April 28 was announced by R. H. M. Robinson, President of Minnesota […]
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.— R. H. M. Robinson of Minneapolis, was elected president of the Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company, March 1, at the initial meeting of the board of directors of the reorganized company appointed on January 10 by Judge Gunner H. Dordbye, U. S. District Court of the District of […]
The blast of the Shevlin-Clark Sawmill whistle last evening marked the end of the 1940 sawing season for that large industry and possibly the end of all sawing seasons for the Shevlin-Clark Company Ltd. As yet, no definite commitments have been made as to the future plans of the company, […]
With a flying club now in existence in Fort Frances, this community is commencing at long last to become somewhat air-minded. First group outside the flying club itself to become infused with the realization of the need for an airport here was the town council in session. Tuesday evening, when […]
In the death, Saturday, of Dr. David Croal McKenzie, 69, local pioneer physician, Fort Frances and the Rainy River District mourned the loss of one of its most public spirited citizens and one who played a leading role in the progress of this north country. Funeral rites were held Monday […]
The Early Days of Fort Frances Scott and Portage Avenue in the early days. In the centre of the intersection is the town’s first traffic sign, the pole set over the manhole. Below, is Roy McTaggart in front of his Scott Street store. The picture was taken in the early […]
