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1622 Etienne Brule passes by St Joe
Island
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1641 Joques & Raymbault were missionaries
in area
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1663 Louis XIV of France made Canada
a royal colony
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1665 Allouez, Nicolas & Pere Marquette
in area
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1671 Father Daumont claimed Island
for King of France
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1700's St Joe trading Post (Fr voyageurs) at Rains
Point later called N.W. Trading Post, S.W. Co., X.Y. Co. and finally Hudson's
Bay Co.
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1728 Jean Baptiste Rousseau appointed
factor for this Trading Post
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1700's (late) to 1840's - schooner, Mackinac boat traffic
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1760 France returned Canada to English
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1783 North West Trading Co. established
trading post
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1791 Constitutional Act, St Joe is
part of Upper Canada
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1792 N.W. Trading Co. built at Rains
Point
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1793 Jay Treaty, British garrison
sent to St Joe
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1794 Lt. Foster & Queen's Rangers
arrived on Island
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1796-1814 Dr.Brown at Fort St Joe - he had a dubious reputation
according to Col. Landmann
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1798 Chippewa deeded St Joe to British
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1798 Lt. Landmann to build Fort
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1800 - 1849
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1802 Fort bake house burned
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1807 John Askin Jr. appointed Clerk
& Storekeeper at Fort
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1809 Malaise at Fort. 2 soldiers attempted
desertion
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1811 Fort without supplies, then had
to make Mackinac coat
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1812 June 18 - war declared
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1812 July 17 - Roberts & co. captured
Mackinac Island
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1814 Fort St Joe burned
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1814 Worsley battle at Tenby Bay,
Tigress & Scorpion taken
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1815 Peace treaty returned Mackinac
to Americans
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1815 new British Encampment made on
Drummond Island
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1816 a Johnson family & natives
made maple syrup this is according to Janet Lewis' "Invasion"
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1817 British brig Wellington frozen
in at Sailors E.
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1820 British finally off of American
soil
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1820-1985 Pioneer period
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1820 Trading Post at Rains Point became
Hudson's Bay Co.
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1822 Bayfield's map referred to Sailors
Encampment as "Campment Matelots" (French name)
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1826 Louis Agassiz (explorer) came
to this area
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1826 Chippewa nations country in Michigan
organized
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1828 families employed by Hudson Bay
Co. at Gosh-Ka-Wong
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1833 sailing vessels became numerous
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1834 decline seen in fur trade from
this date on
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1835 Rains, Scott and Thompson at
Milford Haven
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1835 1st Sawmill set up by Rains colony
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1835 village of Kaskewan-10 log cabins,
teepees
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1838 Rains partnership dissolved
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1838 Samuel Peck ran store under Thompson
at "Pecksville"
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1838 Rains moved to Hentlan (Rains
Point)
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1839 Samuel Jarvis was Chief Supert.
of Indian Affairs
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1839 Samuel Peck shipped 1,000,000
lb. maple sugar, 600 barrels trout and herring
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1846 Bruce Mines was established
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1847 copper discovered at Bruce Mines
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1848 Bruce Mines--population of 250,
30 log homes, 2 wharfs
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1848 Father Hennepin was sent to St
Joseph village by N.W.T. Co.
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1849 Moses Thompson's had a wharf
at Hill Town
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1850 - 1879
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1850 missionary reported village called
Hill Town
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1850 Hilton started. Wharf built.
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1840's-70's Philetus Church's store/sawmill, Sugar Island
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1849 "Gore" steamer skippered by Captain
Peck
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1850 natives moved from Kaskewan seeking
copper at Bruce Mines
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1852 Tudor Rains' wood dock and store
at Sailors E.
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1852 Major Rains moved from Loch Rains
to upper Encampment
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1852-55 Molesworth Survey
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1853-55 First lock at Sault St. Marie Michigan
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1854 Encampment named Campment Matelot
by French traders; this explains the name
Sailors Encampment
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1855 lock at rapids
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1856 government offered land at 20
cents an acre
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1857 Great Eastern Steamship
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1857 a Mr. Parmenter mentionned as
a teacher
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1858 John Marks arrived at Hill Town
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1858 St Joe part of District of Algoma
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1858 Anthony Adams brought first oil
lamp to Island
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1858 boats traveling between St Joe
& Manitoulin Is.
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1859 Owen Rains built 1st 2 story
house on island
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1860 Bishops came on side-wheeler
"Ploughboy"
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1861 John Marks removed to Sailors
Encampment
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1860 Rains moved to Westfield with
Frances Doubleday
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1867 Hoel & Rupert Rains took
over from Tudor Rains
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1867 Confederation, Upper Canada became
Ontario
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1867 1st election, Simpson to House
of Commons Cumberland for the local house.
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1868 Homestead Act
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1870 concentration of settlement began
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1870's Richardson - sawmill at Richardson's creek
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1870's Mountain church built
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1871 John Marks returned to Hilton
and named it Marksville
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1871 Sault Ont. incorporated as village
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1871-72 S.S. Cumberland frozen at S.E.-
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1872-1900 Riverside Hotel on Marks' lot 2 story brick by John
Ross closed in 1906
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1872 E.J. Pink 1st teacher at Sailors
Encampment he dissembarked from the frozen in Cumberland
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1872 Jan.11- Campment d'ours sold
to Barbara Heyden sold by crown for $25.30
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1874 Major William Kingdom Rains died
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1875 Joseph Kent & family arrived
by sail from Bruce to Marksville
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1875 tree farmers were paid $1 per
cord
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1875 The "Lily" was the Kent's homemade
sailboat
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1875 David Coulter took over Eliza
Doubleday's farm
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1876-84 First log school at Westfield; teacher--Miss
Alice Sterling
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1876 John Richards, John Morton at
Richards Landing
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1876 families at Marksville, Gawas
Bay, Kaskewan, Sterlings at Sterling Bay; Rains -Sailors Encampment
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1800's (late) thriving fishing industry was in place commercial
fishermen sent catches to Detour, Michigan
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1876 1st post office opened by John
Richards
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1876 Baptiste Jondreau was 1st mailman
Bruce Mines to Is.
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1876 St Joseph Township elected
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1876-1957 Church of Mary at Sailors Encampment/Seagull
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1877 Crowder family came on side-wheeler
"Ontario" to Marksville
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1877 mail landed at Sault & Bruce
mines, delivered monthly
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1877 Kent's sailboat the Shamrock
in use
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1877 Young family moved to St Joe
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1877 School house at Marksville
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1877 Rev Beer was 1st Anglican minister
came
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1877 Elizabeth Bishop was 1st woman
to locate a lot
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1877-78 winter of almost no snow
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1878 John Marks drew map of Marksville
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1878 John Richards built home--later
it became the Brandon House
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1878 clearing for C line, 5th side
road, and 10th
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1878 Van Horne started Free Methodist
church
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1879 Sault Michigan became a village
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1879 William Fremlin purchased ties
from C. Young
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1880 - 1899
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1880's passenger ships were in use
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1880's,90's mills, general stores, drug store, doctor, boarding
house barber newspaper
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1880 Patrick & son William Trainor
came
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1880 William Crowder settled on P
Line
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1880 Jocelyn log school on Sandy Brown's
hill Nellie McQueen was the teacher
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1880 (Amos) Cheer school at 10th -
F& G corner teacher T.J. Foster was paid $275 per year
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1880 oil range lights in place, later
battery, then electric in 1950
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1880's Irwin log school was built
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1880 U.S. government deepened channel
at Sailors Encampment
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1880 1st hotel at Marksville was Archibald
Hotel
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1881 Marksville, Jocelyn had 1st Anglican
churches
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1881 St Joe P.O.name changed to Richards
Landing P. O.
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1881 2nd Post Office open at Marksville
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1881 2nd U.S. ship channel built
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1881 Jocelyn post office at Maples
- July 1st
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1881 Jocelyn school at M&N east
of Anglican church 1893 replaced by frame
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1882 Christine Simons taught at school
near 10th & P line
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1882 making regular calls were - "Atlantic",
"Northern" "Queen", "Pacific", "Manitoulin"
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1883 Thomas Brandon's Brandon House
opened
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1883 July 21, Hilton Township formed
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1884 C line school built
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1884-1950 C Line school
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1884 Mountain church built on P line
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1885 McQueen had sawmill at Milford
Haven mill sold to Murphy 1903, Whicher in 1920 Whicher quit 1925
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1885-89 McGuigan bros. had their mill
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1886 Jocelyn Township founded
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1886 Hilton Township organized, A.G.
Duncan was reeve
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1886 School board formed at Brandon
Hall
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1885 Kaskewan school built
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1886 Jocelyn Twp. formed
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1886 1st doctor was Dr. Hector Ross
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1887 Noel Rains' store at Sailors
Encampment
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1887 John Ross, John Robinson arrived
at Neebish Conc.
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1887 C P R reachedd the Sault
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1887 Sault incorporated as town
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1887 Bethel church at Hilton road.
& 15th (Methodist)
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1887 paddle wheel steamers- Silver
Spray,Northern Belle, all traveled Collingwood-North Channel-Sault St Marie
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1887 Davis & Dean bros. sawmill
at Twin Lakes
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1887 Kaskewan school was in 2nd year
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1887 George Lions' mill was on Two
Tree River
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1887 Am. Sault incorporated as a city
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1888 1st Kentvale store and grist
mill Fred Kent & Emily Kent were owners
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1888 Hilton businesses- Archibald
hotel, Bowker's General store,Chester/shoemaker, Cooper/wagonmaker, Duncan/general
store& sawmill, Dean &Davis sawmill, Steinburg/blacksmith
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1889 Van Horne sold his grist mill
to Dickson
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1889 Lions mill sold to McGuigan brothers
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1889 (or 1899?) Chesterfield mill
in Richards Landing
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1890-1922 French/tin school across from Adcock Gardens
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1890 Richards Landing school built
for $620
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1892-1950 Alex Brown mill was situated at U Line
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1893 Hilton Beach Church was at Base
line & Hilton road
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1893 McGuigan bros. moved from Kentvale
to Hilton it was steam powered, sold to Stone Lumber 1910
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1894 log school built on James Carter
farm it was frame in 1906 and closed in 1957
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1895 Davis & Dean moved mill to
Richards Landing later it belonged to E.Owen
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1896 1st Canadian lock at Sault
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1896 1st Jocelyn school at Ibbitsons
log home at 5th sideroad & Levans side road
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1896 Hilton Beach brick school built
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1896 A.G. Duncan striving for bridge
to Island received plaque from Farmers' Institute
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1896 Rainsmere built by Clara, Walter
& Owen Rains
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1897 Heber Young brought 3 Chicago
telephones to St Joe
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1898-1916 Clover Valley Cheese & Butter Co. formed.
This cheese factory was on F & G near A line
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1898 Algoma Insurance Co. was in operation
owners were Thomas Knott, Heber Young
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1898 McGuigan sold mill to Honsberger
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1898 Joseph Rickaby's St Joe Herald
was at Richards L.
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1893 Jocelyn school built at A-Line
and 548 highway
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1899-1965 Harmony school built at A & I line
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???? Cedar Grove school at A-Line
& Two Tree river
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1900 - 1919
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1900's Bill Biggar shipped cedar off island
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1900 F.B. Kent bought a steam engine
for the sawmill
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1900 no more need of wood docks for
steamers
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1900-? Dr. Rowenthwaite
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1900 Donald & Charles Jacoby's
sawmill was at Gawas Bay on (now) Jim Jackson's property in 1913 Thomas
Steinberg took over
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1900 Dean brothers' steamboat "Merrit"
was in use took passengers between Sault & Bruce Mines
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1900 Fremlins had a rival boat called
the "Premier"
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1900 Ed Stubbs had "Bonami", then
bought the "Premier" Neil McDongal had the "Michipicoten" Percy Kent had
the "Mary Scott" & "Wacouta"
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1900 Tenby Bay church land given by
Bruce Prout
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1900 Prout taught music at Tenby Bay
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1900ish 3 government docks for shipping
produce P line, K line & C & D line
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1900 Zion Presbyterian Church was
built by Ben Garside at I line & 20th
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1901 Humphrey, Heber Young - 1st telephone
system
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1901 Normac was on lakes, in 1946
used as Tobermory ferry
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1902 William McNabb's evaporator (20
x 5 feet)in operation he was a pioneer of modern maple syrup making 1 gal
and 1 quart measures were used people brought their own containers 1 gallon
of maple syrup cost 1 dollar
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1903 wooden steamer "Manitou" started
service
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1903 Kentvale house was built &
still stands
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1903 Jocelyn P.O. moved to the Kentvale
Store
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1903 J.E. Murphy's sawmill was at
Milford Haven in 1920 it was sold to Ed Whicher
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1903-13 Chesterfield Lumber at Sterling
Bay a Norman Currie was scalded at this mill
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1904 "Caribou" was in service
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1903 long distance telephone, Maclennon
connected to CP telegraph system
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1904 felt strainer for syruping available
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1904 Bishop Llewellyn Williams had
1st tourist colony at Llewellyn Beach
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1905 Women's Institute organized
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1906 Tenby Bay school opened with
Winnie Cheer as teacher
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1906 Maple Hill school was at Blind
line & 10th built by Asher Bookman & Harry Smith
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1906 Kentvale store and hall burnt
down
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1906 trap rock quarry opened
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1906 Owen's grist mill was in Richards
Landing
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1906 Hilton's St Boniface church was
built
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1907 Percy & Greyden Kent's "Enterprise"
took freight to Sault made from curved cedars initiated 1st farmers' marine
market in Sault?
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1907 Orangemen built a hall at K line.
It stood 65 yrs.
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1907ish Fred Roger's tug "Tiddley Addley" was in use
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1907 Ben Garside & John Pink built
Kaskewan Stone school
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1908 or 1907 Fire at Richards Landing destroyed Tweedy &
Foster Blocks
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1908 G. Langstaff built home corner
of Lucy & Elizabeth this house was once a rectory 1926-7 also a Red
Cross hospital in 1929
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1910 Florence Orrell was at Neebish
cottage
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1910 Stone Lumber bought McGuigan
bros. W.J. Smith in charge
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1911 before this date- Dr. John Godfrey,
had drug store
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1911 Dr. Wolfstein was in Hilton area
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1911-1 7 Dr. Allan Blackwell on Island
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1912 new Kentvale store was in place
after the 1906 fire
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1912 Sault becomes a city
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1912 Sault Star newspaper was operative
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1913 4th U.S. lock built
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1913 Steamer "Mack" built at Kentvale
held 200 bags of potatoes transport for apples of Mr. Barnes (Barnes Drugs)
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1913 "Superior" built by F & P
Kent??????????????????
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1913 David Tait's orchard was on P
line
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1913 Crowders make syrup old fashioned
way
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1915-16 116 Island men went to war---22
were killed.
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1916-17 cast iron spiles and mental buckets introduced
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1916 Fire in Richards. Several buildings
burned.
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1916 G. Langstaff had a taxi service
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1919 Imperial Bank of Canada in Richards
Landing
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1919 Kentvale store folk had their
1st vehicle
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1919 George Langstaff's cable ferry
to Kensington Pt. submarine cable was 2600 feet
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1919 Fred & Greydon Kent first
made Maple syrup
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1920 - 1949
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1920 Outlook P.O.-Dibolls Harmony
P.O. at John Rousseau's Kentvale P.O. at Kentvale Store Sea Gull P.O. at
Owen Rains' (Sailors Encampment) Charles Diboll was the mailman
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1920 SS North America, SS South America,
SS Manitoba SS Keewatin, SS Assiniboine, Elva were in use
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1920 Percy Kent's "F B Wright" was
on the water
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1920 Marksville library opened funds
raised by W.I. and community night
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1920 William Hyatt built "Journey's
End"
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1920 Dr. Arthur Lipminn was on Island
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1921 Marksville Fremlins wanted to
buy rail ties,pulpwood
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1921 Miss Craig, Mrs. Smedley had
goitre operations
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1921 Dr.G.E. Lepsett
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1921-26 dry spell and grasshoppers, poor crops!
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1922 steamboats first appeared
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1922 Fire in Richards Landing
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1923 Magic Carpet cable ferry built
by Walter Lay ran from B line near Seagull light to Pine Is. (named after
Herbert E. Lewis' Magic Carpet book) later it was called the Jo-pine 3,200
feet of cable
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1923 E.B. Kent started bus run to
Sault
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1923 Marksville became Hilton Beach
was incorporated as police village.
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1923 winter of little snow until March
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1923 "Michipicoten" ship burned in
1927
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1923 E. Crowder (Frank's father) died
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1923 Dr. E. G. Case in residence on
Island
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1924 Crowders used a sap tray to evaporate
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1924 David Tait set up 1st Grimm evaporator
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1924 3 bed hospital opened.
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1925 March 13th -Richards Landing
school burnt
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1925 new 3 room R.L. school built
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1925 S J I Hospital Association formed
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1925 Presbyterian & Methodist
merged into United church
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1926 Frank Crowder's journey out west,
poorer times
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1926-27 Freeze-up. 283 ships caught, some
ships ran out of food 1926 Mary Scott burned in Hilton harbour owned by
Captain Corbett, Ray Turner, G. Dalley, S.Tranter, P. Kent and Earle Kent
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1927 Mortimer Matthews died
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1927 Dr. Webb was on the Island
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1927 Journey's End built by William
Hyatt & T.McDermott it was at same site as old J.M. Ross Hotel
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1927 P.Kent's "Wacouta" sank Nov 12
in Bear Lake
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1929 Hospital erected in memory of
Mortimer Matthews
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1930-36 Dr. A. N. Morphy on Island
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1928-36 "Hibou" was a twin engine diesel
it met disaster in 1936
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1928-49 iron hulled "Manitoulin" & "Manisoo"
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1928 until this date Fountain Park
water dam powered the sawmill, and also a grist mill in the Blind line
area
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1929 Charles Albert Young ran in provincial
election his platform was to build the bridge
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1930 Great Lakes Power reached St
Joe
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1931 Census indicated 1,882 on island
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1932 Maple Hill school built
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1928-33 Frank Crowder's 2nd journey out west
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1933-64 Irwin or I Line brick school Jack Currie was
the builder
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1933 new Kentvale store, larger, and
still present
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1933 Kentvale store had refrigeration
by use of ice the ice box went to the Canadian Legion
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1933 Walter Lay's Magic Carpet St
Joe to Pine Is.
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1934 free ferries operated by Ontario
government MLA Miller of Bruce Mines got our free ferry
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1934 Bill Curry killed dynamiting
the Bamford rock
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1930's P. Kent built "Florence O" yacht
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1930's 40's roads were rolled in winter
there were few cars yet
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1930's-50's creamery operatedd by Stanley Tranter
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1930-40 Charles, Ivan Woods took over mill from John
Woods this was originally W. Loyld Mill of Hilton Township
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1935 Richards Landing creamery reopened
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1937 A bush fire threatened the K
line Orange Hall
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1937 Keith Brown had gas-powered mill,
U line, Bear Creek
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1937-59 Dr. Harold Trefry was our doctor
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1937 Dr. Trefry's "Medicare" $2.50
each per year afforded each of us health care
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1940 Canon Donald Dixon came to St
Joe
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1941 end of operations at Kentvale
mill
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1945 Harmony school built
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1946-56 Robert MacFarlen's electric powered mill at
F&G and 20th, foreman was Alex Cain
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1946 Hector Nelson bought Mariah Marks'
cottages end of Ringham St, now Nelson's Trailer Park
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1946 Norisle was operating
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1946 Fire at Richards
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1949 Electrical refrigeration at Kentvale
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1950 - Present
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1950 Rainsmere closed
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1950 Orrell Memorial school replaced
old C line school
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1951 Chamber of Commerce formed
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1951 Dew Drop Inn opened
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1952 The chain-saw speeded timbering
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1952 passenger-freight business in
Sault dropping off
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1953-72 The St Joseph Islander at Humbug Point
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1954 new wing added to hospital
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1955 Kent Bros. Syrup business had
1325 trees tapped 4 brothers were in the enterprize
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1960 Dr. Gordon Erb was onthe Island
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1961 High school built overlooking
Richards Landing it closed in 1972
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1962 Dr. Brian Finnemore was our doctor
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1963 end of Norgoma, also end of importance
of passenger/freight services in later years still shipped island sheep's
wool Norgoma & Normac had succeedded the Manitoulin
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1963 St Joseph Island Museum opened
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1964 all one-room schools closed R.L.
Central School was composite replacement addition of 3 rooms
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1966 Hilton school closed
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1966 Dr. Una Jean Sayles was here
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1967 B. Gilbertson was elected to
Provincial government
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1968 Govt agreed with Gilbertson on
"bridge"
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1967 Bell Canada took over from S
J I Telephone System
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1968-1972 High school reopened as kindergarten
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1970's Dr. Justin Dyer, Dr. Eitel Beduhn
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1972 Canadian Bank of Commerce opened
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1972 Dec 11th the bridge to Island
was opened
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1973 Central Algoma Secondary School
opened High school students bussed to Desbarats
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1976 St Joseph Twp. centennial celebration
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1978 Senior Citizen Complex built
in Hilton
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1978 Visitor Centre built at Fort
St Joseph
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1979 Dr. Robert Armstrong came to
Island
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1982 Kent Bros. received World Championship
for syrup
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1983 Hilton Township centennial celebrated
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1984 Plummer Hospital took over Matthews
Memorial
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1986 Jocelyn Township centennial celebrated.
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1988 The 1912 Kentvale Store was given
to the museum
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