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 […]
100 years, 100 stories
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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Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald
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 […]
Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald
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 […]
Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald
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 […]
Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald
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 […]
Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald
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, […]
Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald
“Thank God, most of us who are reading this issue of the Time have not experienced the stark terror of a forest fire as did our neighbouring residents of Dance Township. Although we sympathize with these anguished settlers, from the bottom of our hearts, many of us just cannot realize […]
Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald
“Good God, will this never end!” he cried, as he collapsed in my arms, sobbing like a baby, in the McKenzie hospital, at the foot of Mrs. Frank LaBelle’s bed as her sweet little 11-year-old daughter, Maxine, lying in a bed beside her, was drawing her last breath. Half carrying […]
