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Kirkland Lake is a town and municipality in Timiskaming District of Northeastern Ontario.The 2021 population, according to Statistics Canada, was 7,750. [1]The community name was based on a nearby lake which in turn was named after Winnifred Kirkland, a secretary of the Ontario Department of Mines in Toronto.
The Museum of Northern History is a historic house museum [1] located in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada with more than 10,000 artifacts (photographs, objects, etc.) highlighting the social, cultural and industrial history of the Kirkland Lake region, with a particular focus in relation to mining. The museum is located in the Sir Harry Oakes ...
HMCS Kirkland Lake was a River-class frigate that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She served primarily as a convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named for Kirkland Lake, Ontario. Originally named St. Jerome, [1] she was ordered in June 1942 as part of the 1942–1943 River-class building program.
The Miners Monument in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. The Kirkland Lake Miners' Memorial is a memorial in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, dedicated to the city's mining labourers.. During the 1930s the town's seven great gold mines (Macassa, Tough-Oaks, Kirkland Lake Gold, Lakeshore, Wright-Hargreaves, Teck-Hughes and Sylvanite) provided one million dollars to the province's economy and employed 4, 640 workers.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Help. Pages in category "Ontario history timelines" The following 6 pages are in this category ...
The Lake Shore Mine is a gold mine located in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. In July 1912, Harry Oakes staked claims L-2605-6 which were in the lake itself and had reverted for non-performance of work. On September 6, 1912, he registered the transfer of claim L-1557 that Melville McDougall had staked for Oakes previously.
Will There Be a 2024 Trooping the Colour Rehearsal? Prior to the official event on June 15, the first rehearsal, known as The Major General’s Review, will take place on Saturday, June 1 ...
The Cobalt Rush was instrumental in opening northern Ontario for mineral exploration. Prospectors fanned out from Cobalt, and soon caused the nearby Porcupine Gold Rush in 1909, and the Kirkland Lake Gold Rush of 1912. Much of the settlement in northern Ontario outside the Clay Belt owes its existence indirectly to the Cobalt Rush.