Robert John Nicholson Pither, whose residency on the point of land where Rainy Lake discharges into Rainy River, gave rise to its name as Pither’s Point, was born on October 29, 1824 in Montreal. His parents were Robert and Margaret (Nicholson) Pither, of English birth. He was educated in Montreal […]
Biographies of Interesting Citizens
Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald
Joseph Alexander Osborne, founder of the Fort Frances Times and a newspaperman for 66 of his 87 years, passed away at Newport News, V.A. on Sunday, July 25, 1948. At the time of his death he was editor emeritus of the Gazette of Williamsburg, V.A., the oldest paper on the […]
Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald
William Hampdon Tenner, who leaves as a memorial the finest complete collection of photographs of early days in the District of Rainy River, passed away at his home in Devlin on June 10, 1948. He was an ardent and artistic photographer and many pictures of steamboat navigation on the Rainy […]
Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald
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 […]
Fort Frances Museum
Dr. Robert Moore was laid to rest Tuesday afternoon. The friends he acquired during forty years he spent in the district filled Knox Presbyterian church to pay their last respects to one who in the words of the minister who conducted the service, “lived his life devotedly to the welfare […]
Fort Frances Museum
Douglas John Gillon – Ontario Land Surveyor and Civil Engineer – Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1864 – Educated at “Fettes College,” Edinburgh, graduating 1882. From there he entered the “Royal Indian Engineering College,” at Coopers Hill, London, England. After graduation, he travelled extensively in foreign lands, having been in […]
Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald
One of the men who can claim to be a self-made man is our local member Mr. J.A. Mathieu, the manager and vice-president of the Shevlin-Clarke Company, millionaire lumberman. Mr. Mathieu came to this district ten years ago from Minnesota, as manager of the Rainy River Lumber Company’s sawmill at […]
President Ontario & Minnesota Power Company The first capitalist to show faith in the industrial future of Fort Frances by putting up his money and every dollar he could get from outside sources to develop our water-power was Mr. Edward Wellington Backus, of Minneapolis, the modern Napoleon of finance, diplomacy […]
