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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 ...
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.
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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.
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.
The Wright-Hargreaves Mine is a gold mine located in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. [1] In late July 1911, Bill Wright and his brother-in-law Ed Hargreaves discovered the first visible gold in what would later become the Kirkland Lake camp. [2] In 1913 the No. 1 shaft was sunk to a depth of 85 feet (26 metres).
Specimen gold, probably from Pamour Mine. The Porcupine Gold Rush was a gold rush that took place in Northern Ontario starting in 1909 and developing fully by 1911. A combination of the hard rock of the Canadian Shield and the rapid capitalization of mining meant that smaller companies and single-man operations could not effectively mine the area, as opposed to earlier rushes where the gold ...
William Henry Wright (21 April 1876 – 20 September 1951) was a Canadian prospector.. In 1911, he discovered the Kirkland Lake Break, which hosted seven gold-producing mines. [1]