Development

More efficient than any of today’s communication method was the five rings of the telephone that meant every receiver in the community would be lifted. Five rings by the operator or by anyone in trouble signalled and emergency. One long ring meant someone was calling “Central” to connect them with […]

I am trying to understand what 100 years means. My sense of history and the understanding of the Fort Frances Times begins in the basement of the Times when it was located on Church Street. It is a memory of standing around a noisy folder, and helping my grandfather and […]

Uncork the champagne bottles–the Fort Frances Times turns 100 today! One is awestruck, looking back over the past century, by how much has been dutifully recorder on these very newspaper pages. It was the promise of gold that spawned a city, and this newspaper, so many years ago. But long […]

Newspapers Fort Frances has had a newspaper service for many years, the first being the Alberton Star, which was owned and operated by Mr. W.B. Little. This paper was first published every Tuesday and the annual subscription rate was $1.00. When the Dominion government changed in 1878 and work was […]

There may be some unforeseen problems when the new handi-action van goes into action in Fort Frances on Monday. But these may be insignificant compared to the hurdles overcome in the past four years by the Rainy River District Handicapped Action Group to obtain the van. In order to comply […]

The Ministry of Natural Resources, through its Fort Frances District Fisheries Management Pla, has determined that walleye and northern pike are being over-harvested on Rainy Lake. The over-harvesting problem is particularly acute for walleye on the North Arm where walleye stocks are also stressed by localized spawning habitat degradation, water […]

There must have been a school in Atwood Township in the early 90’s for in the fall of 1894, Mr. McQuaig, Public School Inspector for Algoma “including Rainy River”, issued a permit for Miss Edith Cathcart to teach “in Atwood No.8” until July 1, 1895. In 1901 the “old log […]

One of the first actions taken by the Town of Fort Frances subsequent to its incorporation, was establishment of a fire department. What follows is a history of that department. It’s a story of people who made it work and the equipment they used to achieve maximum efficiency. In 1903, […]

When J.A. Osborne could not find housing in the village of Koochiching, he moved across to Fort Frances and when he heard that the Canadian Northern Railway was to be was to be built through Fort Frances, he moved his newspaper, the Rainy Lake Herald and Koochiching Advertiser across the […]

Fort Frances paid tribute to the Sisters of Charity, or of Grey Nuns on Thursday afternoon and evening for their 34 years of dedicated service as owners, administrators and operators of LaVerendrye General Hospital, prior to the transfer of ownership to a non-profit, charitable corporation, the LaVerendrye General Hospital (Fort […]

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 […]

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 […]