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Nipigon Historical Museum Digital Photo Index

Hey! Are you searching for an ancestor? Or a place in a specific era? If they lived in Nipigon, and the area in the old days, the Nipigon Historical Museum may just happen to have a photo of your subject. Maybe you're studying history and need to attain a certain image of what use to be there. If it's not lost to time, the Museum is the best go-to place to find it. Access the archive first using the digital index! Or, maybe if you're just curious as to what they have on file, well, then you've come to the right place!

This Digital Index is intended to help you quickly search the Nipigon Historical Museum’s photo archive. Simply search the Digital Index by any keyword, using Command F for Mac users and Control F on PC - Then send the photo number via email to the Nipigon Historical Museum and it should be made available to you when time permits.

The Digital Index is in its first stages as there are more than 4,000 photos which are voluntarily being indexed by myself from the original work by Buzz Lein and others. Some spelling errors may have occurred being carried over from Buzz’s work, however I have tried to make corrections.

Subjects:

Animals, Arts, Boats, Buildings, Catastrophes, Construction, Events, Forestry, Locations, People, Views, Shots

Use variants in your searches if need be. Have fun searching!  ~ Dee McCullay

David W Haig Collection - Nipigon Museum Photo Index

All photos by David W Haig except stated

DHC# followed by subject. Underneath is a photo description

1 People:

David W Haig, Forest Ranger. Employed by the government largely to keep portages clean & usable. Lake Nipigon, Summer, 1910

2 Views:

Nipigon River system, Lake Helen, 1910

3 People:

Forest Rangers at a camp fire. Location unknown, except that it is on the Nipigon River, 1910. David W Haig at right.

4 Shots:

The CPR rail bridge spanning the Nipigon River at Nipigon, 1910.

5 Buildings:

Rock and log covered grave, Lake Nipigon, Nipigon House,  HBCo, 1910

6 Shots:

McDonald’s Rapids on the Nipigon River. Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

7 Locations:

Jesse Lake looking North. Nipigon Forest Reserve

7a Locations:

Jesse Lake on the Nipigon River, North. Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

8 Shots:

On the Nipigon River at Pine Portage. Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

9 Shots:

Tent camp at Pine Portage on the Nipigon River. Lake Nipigon, 1910

10 Shots:

Fishing at Pine Portage. Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

11 People - Shots:

Big Flat Rock Portage into Lake Nipigon from Hannah Lake. William Watson - Left. 1910.

11a Shots:

Portaging, Lake Nipigon, 1910

11b People:

Backpacking, Lake Nipigon, 1910

12 People:

Lunch spot on a flat rock in a clearing. David W Haig - Right. Lake Nipigon, 1910

13 People - Boats:

William Watson with canoe on sand beach, Lake Nipigon, 1910

14 People - Locations:

Split Rock on the Nipigon River. D Haig standing on the rocks.

15 Lake:

The Narrows between Lake Maria and Jesse Lake. Looking North. Nipigon River, 1910

16 x

17 People - Buildings:

On the dock in front of Nipigon House. David W Haig - Front. Chap with pipe is Clerk (unknown) Lake Nipigon, 1910

18 x

19 Buildings:

Manager’s Residence as seen from the dock. Store at right Nipigon House, HBCo, Lake Nipigon, 1910.

19b People - Buildings:

Group on the front of the store, probably clerk McLeod, Nipigon House, Lake Nipigon, 1910.

20 Buildings:

Winter log cabins on Dog Island across from Nipigon House, Lake Nipigon, 1910.

21 Boats:

Mackinaw boat off Nipigon House, HBCo, Lake Nipigon, 1910

21b Boats:

Mackinaw boats tied up at dock. Nipigon House, HBCo, Lake Nipigon, 1910

22 Buildings - Views:

View of Nipigon House, HBCo from Dog Island in Northwest corner, Lake Nipigon, 1910

23 People - Locations:

Rangers clearing portages. This looks like Big Flat Rock Portage in to South Bay, Lake Nipigon Forest Reserve, Lake Nipigon, 1910

24 Views:

Lake Nipigon side of Big Flat Rock Portage. Cleaning portages was why the Rangers were there, 1910.

24 Shots:

Photo of a cleaned up portage, probably Big Flat Rock Portage again, Lake Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910 - Duplicate

25 People - Shots:

Campsite at Cameron Rapids. William Watson preparing lunch. Lake Nipigon, 1910

26 Views:

Ranger tent camp at Cameron Rapids. Nipigon River, 1910

26a People:

David W Haig at entrance of tent at Cameron Rapids, with Speckled Trout. Nipigon River, 1910.

27a Views:

Looks like a scene on the Nipigon River but not known for sure. Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

28 Shots:

Cameron Rapids on the Nipigon River. Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

28 Shots:

Rapids at Cameron Falls, Nipigon River, 1910

28 Shots:

Cameron Rapids on the Nipigon River. Nipigon Forest Reserve, 191 - DUP

28a Shots:

Cameron rapids on the Nipigon River. Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

28a Shots:

Cameron rapids on the Nipigon River. Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910 

28b Shots:

Cameron Rapids on the Nipigon River. Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

28b Shots:

Cameron Rapids on the Nipigon River. Nipigon Forest reserve, 1910

29 People:

David W Haig on Lake Nipigon. The canoe is birch bark, 1910

30 x

31 Boats:

Revillon Brothers canoe, known as the “ton” canoe, Lake Nipigon, 1910

32 People:

William “Billy” Watson, University of Toronto Medical student, a Summer Ranger, Nipigon Forest Reserve. 

33 x

34 Locations:

Camp Alexander on the Nipigon River, 1910. David W Haig - Right

35 Events:

Treaty day, Nipigon House, Lake Nipigon, Summer, 1910

36 Buildings:

Front Street, Nipigon. International Hotel, Revillon Brothers, Hudson’s Bay Company, 1910

37 People - Locations:

Lake Onamakawash, West of Collins on North line CNR. David W Haig - Left, William “Billy” Watson - Right

38 People:

Rangers with dinner, William “Billy” Watson - Center, David W Haig - Far Right, Location unknown, Lake Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

39 x

40 People - Shots:

William “Billy” Watson fishing above Virgin Falls. The fish is a sucker. Base in Ranger cabin at the falls. Lake Nipigon, 1910

40a People - Locations:

William “Billy” Watson fishing above Virgin Falls. Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

40b Shots:

Fishing above Virgin Falls on the Nipigon River. Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

40c Shots:

Fishing on the Nipigon River above Virgin Falls. Nipigon Forest Reserve

41 Locations:

Falls on a river, no indication where. Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

42 x

43 People - Shots:

David W Haig with a Speckled Trout, probably at Cameron Rapids, Nipigon River, 1910

44 x

45a People - Shots:

William “Billy” Watson snaring a sucker on the upper Nipigon River, Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

46a People - Shots:

David W Haig in center holding a sucker, Upper Nipigon River, Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

47 Shots:

Mist arising from Virgin Falls, Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

48 x

49 x

50 People - Boats:

William “Billy” Watson with finished birch canoe. (See also photos 54, 55, 56, 57) Lake Nipigon, 1910

51 x

52 People - Buildings:

William “Billy” Watson at Fire Ranger cabin at Virgin Falls. (Does not agree with photos 63, 64) Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

53 People:

David W Haig with the axe; name of the Metis unknown. Wabinosh Bay at the Northwest corner of Lake Nipigon, 1910

54 Boats - Construction:

Birch bark canoe construction, Lake Nipigon, 1910

55 Boats - Construction:

Birch bark canoe construction, making the seams water-tight, Lake Nipigon, 1910

56 Boats - Construction:

Almost finished, birch bark canoe, Lake Nipigon, 1910

57 Boats - Construction:

William “Billy” Watson with completed birch bark canoe (see photos 54-57) Lake Nipigon, 1910

58 Boats - Construction:

Extracting or preparing gum for tarring the seams in a birch bark canoe. Lake Nipigon, 1910

59a Views:

Overlooking Wabinosh Bay, Lake Nipigon, 1910

59b Animals:

Bear cub, Wabinosh Bay, lake Nipigon, 1910

60 People:

“Five Days” with William “Billy” Watson at birch bark tent, Nipigon House, Lake Nipigon, 1910

61 x

62a Views - Locations:

Nipigon House, Lake Nipigon, 1910

62b People:

David W Haig in front of birch bark Tee-Pee, note the Hudson’s Bay Company blanket. Lake Nipigon, 1910

63 Buildings:

Interior of Fire Ranger’s shark at Virgin Falls, Nipigon River, Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

64 Buildings:

William “Billy” Watson in doorway of Fire Ranger cabin at Virgin Falls, on the Nipigon River, Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

65 x

66 People:

David W Haig in a lagoon filled with water lilies, Lake Nipigon, 1910

67 x

68 Locations:

No location given. Had to be a civilized place in the area (Nipigon?) Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

69 People:

Indigenous woman outside birch bark tent. Lake Onamakawash? Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

70 People:

Indigenous woman with child, Treaty Day, Nipigon House, lake Nipigon, 1910

71 x

72 People - Boats:

Couple of Metis in one of the HBCo Mackinaw Isl boats, just South of Echo Rock and Nipigon House, Lake Nipigon, 1910

73 x

74 Boats:

Nipigon Forest Reserve canoe and Transcontinental Railway canoe, no names for the paddlers, Lake Nipigon, 1910

75 Locations:

Somewhere in the area, Lake Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

75a Locations:

Looks a lot like the approach to discharge of Lake Nipigon, Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

75b Locations:

High water scene, location unknown, Lake Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

76 Boats:

Canoeing somewhere in the Nipigon Forest Reserve, Lake Nipigon

77 People - Boats:

Rangers portaging canoe, David W Haig - Front, Lake Nipigon, 1910

78 Views:

Looking North from Big Flat Rock Portage, South Bay, lake Nipigon, 1910

79 Views:

Scene on Lake Nipigon, location unknown, Lake Nipigon, 1910

79a Locations:

The site might very well be the mouth of Wabinosh, Lake Nipigon, 1910

80 People:

“Five Days” and his daughters beside their birch bark tent in the vicinity of Nipigon House, HBCo, Lake Nipigon, 1910

81 People - Locations:

Kids posed on the front steps of the store at Nipigon House of the HBCo, Lake Nipigon, 1910

82 x

83 People:

David W Haig flipping bannock, Big Flat Rock Portage, South Bay, Lake Nipigon, Summer, 1910

84 People:

William “Billy” Watson standing on lichen covered boulder that has had the lichens scraped off to make his initials, Lake Nipigon, 1910

85 x

86 People:

Unidentified men examining Moose tracks in the sand somewhere at the North end of Lake Nipigon, 1910

87 x

88 x

89 x

90 Locations:

Barn Island in Wabinosh Bay where David W Haig found his drifted canoes, Nipigon Forest Reserve

91 People:

Surveyors on the Transcontinental right of way survey, Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

92 Locations:

Photo taken by David W Haig on his way back down East after finishing his Forest Ranging on the Nipigon Forest Reserve, Schreiber, Ontario, 1910

93 Locations:

Ranger Station at Nipigon, Fall of 1910. 1929.

94 Boats:

The steamer Ombabika appears to be at Big Flat Rock Portage, Summer, 1910

95 Locations:

Revillon Brothers store in Nipigon, built in 1905, Nipigon, 1910

96 Locations:

Hudson’s Bay Company Store and Warehouse, Nipigon, 1910

97 Locations:

Echo Rock, in the vicinity of Nipigon House, HBCo. Lake Nipigon, 1910

98a People:

Unknown paddler somewhere at the North end of Lake Nipigon, Summer, 1910

99 Boats:

The SS Huronic at the Sault Locks in the early Summer, 1910

100 Boats:

A US Freighter near the Locks at Sault Ste Marie in the early Summer, 1910

101 Boats:

A US Freighter off the Sault Locks at Sault Ste Marie, 1910

102 Views:

The US Buoy tender “Aspen” off the Sault Ste Marie Locks, early Summer, 1910

103 Views:

The Locks at Sault Ste Marie in the early Summer, 1910 - Photo by David W Haig while on route to Nipigon to take up a Summer Range job

Nipigon Museum Photo

NMP# followed by subject, underneath is photo description

1 Buildings:

McKirdy’s Store, white building at right, looking toward Nipigon approx. 1905

2 x

3 Buildings:

Hudson’s Bay Company

4 Buildings:

Revillon Brothers Ltd, Nipigon, 1910 - David W Haig Photo

5 Streets:

Main Street Nipigon, 1910

6 Buildings:

Finn Hall, now Elk’s Hall, 1911

7 x

8 Streets:

First Street, Nipigon

9 x

10 Buildings:

The “Little Mill” on the West bank of the Nipigon River just above where it flows into the Nipigon Bay. This mill started up in 1921m ran on power from the newly constructed generating plant at Cameron Falls. Used about 1,500 cords of Spruce a year and turned out baled pulp. Ran intermittently until it was demolished in the middle 1960’s.

11 Buildings:

Everett’s store in Nipigon, 1921-1928. Now the Plaza Theatre (Made to measure suits were $28.00)

12 Buildings:

EC Everett’s store

13 x

14 Buildings:

This building was on the side now occupied by the Nipigon War memorial. Ambrose Martin and family lived here. Note water tank and station on the other side of the track from where it is now, Nipigon, ca 1925

15 People:

Jim Hogan, shoe repairer, Nipigon

16 Buildings:

Nipigon Public School, 1925

17 Views:

Nipigon, September, 1929

18 x

19 People - Buildings:

A fire station on Front Street, Nipigon. Wallace Everett sliding down the snow. About 1935

20 Buildings:

Nipigon Post Office, 1948

21 x

22 People - Buildings:

Henry Swain - Left, Julian Merril - Right. Nipigon Museum building in the back, probably 1947.

23 Buildings:

About 1948. Anglican church. Brompton Woodland, now museum. Old and new Catholic churches. RC Rectory, United Church Manse, United Church now Hydro building. Old Nipigon Inn burnt down about 1949.

24 x

25 x

26 Buildings:

Nipigon Public Library, 1967

27 Buildings:

Domtar Woodlands office, Nipigon, December, 1971

28 x

29 x

30 x

31b Construction:

Cameron Falls Hydro construction 

32c Construction:

Cameron Falls Hydro Construction, 1919-1920

33d Construction:

Cameron Falls Hydro construction, 1919-1920

34 x

35 Construction:

Dam construction

36 Construction:

Cameron Falls Hydro-electric power plant

37 Construction:

Cameron Falls Hydro construction, 1919-1920

38 Construction:

Cameron Falls Hydro construction, 1919-1921

39 x

40 Views - Construction:

Dam construction looking down stream, Nipigon River, Pine Portage about 1950

41 x

42 Views:

Nipigon River diversion

43 Construction:

Nipigon Lagoon bridge construction 

44 Views:

Nipigon Lagoon and Nipigon River (same as NMP# 42)

45 x

46 Bridges - Railways:

The first CPR iron bridge over the Nipigon River. It replaced the first trestle bridge. probably a JF Cooke photo of 1895

47 Railways:

On the right-of-way between Nipigon and what is now Red Rock. The construction difficulties are apparent. The light rail indicates that this was taken in the late 1890’s

48 Bridges - Railways:

The first iron bridge over the Nipigon River for use by the CPR. Probably a JF Cooke photo of 1895

49 Bridges - Railways:

First iron bridge across the Nipigon River. Centre span in the previous picture is now in place.

50 Bridges - Railways:

Railway bridge across the Nipigon River. Raising the span into position. This centre span was pre-constructed and brought here by water transport, probably an official CPR photo. There are many copies around, about 1887

51 x

52 Construction:

#1 and #2 parts, Cameron Falls, 1920

53 Shots:

Original switchboard generator 102. Cameron Falls early 1920’s

54 Shots:

Original Cameron Falls high tension room, 1920’s

55 Shots:

Low tension breaker gallery, Cameron Falls, early 1920’s

56 Locations:

Half rotor on a flat car showed off end of spur just at water’s edge, Cameron Falls, 1920

57 Construction:

Construction Cameron Falls. 1920

58 Views:

Front view of PAX, Cameron Falls, Generating Station, 1920

59 Shots:

Manual PBX operator’s desk, Cameron Falls Generating Station

60 Shots:

Cameron Falls station and part of rotor

61 Shots:

Cameron Falls Units 1-6

62 -75 x

76 Views:

Cameron Falls

77 x

78 Construction:

Dam construction, Cameron Falls(?)

79 x

80 x

81 Construction:

Dam construction, Cameron Falls(?)

82 - 102 x

103 People - Events:

Bishop, Ben Wawia, and others unveiling the sign

104 x

Missing, April 1967

105 Events:

Remembrance Day at the cenotaph, Nipigon

106 x

107 People:

Iacca Muthc, Mrs Grogan, Ann Donaldson, Kay Kokkinen, Doris McGinnis and Sam D

108 Events:

Cutting the ribbon

109 People

Clarence Ray, Murray Atkinson, A Semula, Berrno, Moss, and Lyki in 1967

110 Location:

Canada

111 x

Missing, April 1967

112 x

113 x

114 x

Missing, 1967

115 x

116 Events:

Labour Day Parade

117 People:

Joe Boesch - Centre

118 People:

Clearwater children

119 People:

Johnny Forest and Mrs. Hendrickson

120 People:

Hurd, Koski and Laskin

121 x

122 x

Missing, April, 1967

123 People:

Paul Nyman, P Jaivda,(?), Allen Bouvier

124 People:

Geana Pollach, Dorion

125 People:

Alex Dampier and date

126 People:

D Whent, C Dampier, and Mrs Koskila 

127 People:

Cathy Lange

128 x

129 People:

Some kind of orchestra

130 People:

George O’Neil

131 x

Missing, April 1967

132 People:

John Hyrschew

133 x

134 People:

Julia Schwartz, Debbie Schwartz, Donna Caissie, and Fortier. Extreme right is Ronthier

135 People:

The Boylr Family (Boyle?)

136 People:

Sam Cicchitano, Doris McInnnis, Corona Grogan, Vera Mannila, and Mr Waghorne

137 x

138 Views:

Bird’s eye view overlooking Lake Helen, one mile East of Nipigon, Nipigon River Bridge

139 Event:

Public boat launching, Nipigon September, 1972

140 Location - Views:

Red Rock Trading Post, Hudson’s Bay Company, at the dock area of present day Nipigon. Probably taken by JF Cooke of Port Arthur in 1885. Cooke was a profession who searched the area for salable photos. Frank Wheeler has one like this on the original mounting.

141 Locations:

Hudson’s Bay Company, Nipigon, ca 1900

142 Locations - Views:

Nipigon from an old post card, early 1900’s, Mrs Lange

143 Locations:

Nipigon House, lake Nipigon, ca 1900

144 Views:

Nipigon River and Lagoon

145: Views:

Nipigon River and Lagoon

146 Views:

Nipigon River and Lagoon

147 x

148 x

149 Boats:

Pulpwood boats in the Nipigon Bay harbor, also showing is the Red Rock plant

150 Boats:

The SY Delonine in the Nipigon harbor, Nipigon, August, 1932

151 Construction:

Building of the CPR bridge in Nipigon

152 Construction:

Building of the CPR bridge in Nipigon

153 Views:

A view down the CPR track from West to East. CPR station on the left. On the Right, the Nipigon Inn, Hudson’s Bay Company, International Hotel, Nipigon about 1900-1905

154 Locations:

CPR Section House. CPR Depot, white house, International Hotel, Hodson’s Bay Company, old Nipigon Inn and log house, Nipigon, 1901

155 Views:

Looking East down the CPR tracks, Nipigon about 1900-1905

156 Views:

A view down the CPR track from West to East. CPR Station on the Left. On the Right an old shack, Nipigon Inn, Hudson’s Bay Company, and International Hotel, Nipigon about 1900-1905

157 People:

CPR Section crew between Nipigon and Red Rock, about 1920. Note the shovel handle.

158 Views:

CPR bridge, Nipigon, 1925

159 Views:

Approach of Nipigon Highway bridge, August, 1935

160 x

161 People:

Steen’s grandfather, Mr Miller, and Warren Miller at the CPR station in Nipigon

162 x

163 Shots:

Canadian Pacific Railway, semi-steamline engine - Jubilee type - F2A class. Weight 263,000 lbs Tender 198,500. Cyl 171/4 by 28 ins. Boiler pressure is 300 lbs. Diameter of drivers 80 ins

164 People:

Jack McIntyre with the axe, Nipigon about 1909

165 Construction:

CNR construction, lagoon causeway completed, no track, 1912

166 Views:

CPR Nipigon

167 Views:

CNR rock cut past the Little Mill 

168 

Dinky engine at Nipigon, construction of the CNR Lake Nipigon. Dr Herman Bryant (?) Repainted, April, 1970

169-176 x

177 Construction:

CNR construction

178-183 x

184 Views:

Probably changing over to heavier rail. Probably JF Cooke photo, Nipigon, about 1895

185 Views:

Lake Nipigon, 1910

186 Views:

Lake Nipigon, 1910

187 People:

Michael Friday getting a free ride

188 Locations:

Loftquist Lake

189 People:

Lady Canoeing

190-195 x

196 Animals:

Horse and carriage

197 Shots:

First truck brought to Nipigon by train - approximately only 3 miles of road existed at that time

198 Views:

Main street Nipigon

199 Locations:

Skandia House about 1925. Present George O’Neil house in 1976. Mrs Hilja Lange Photo

200 x

201 Shots - Forestry:

Typical os the hardworking lumberjacks of the Nipigon area in the mid 1920’s. This cutter is felling trees and producing sawlogs by the look of it. Note the curved crossbar of the “swede” saw which was the universal the of one man saw at the time. This old photo is made even more attractive by the light flare at the top f the picture. Mrs MR and Mrs Lange

202 Shots - Forestry:

Typical Finnish pulp cutters in the Nipigon area during the mid 1920’s. These fellows are clad in the typical occupational clothing. The pulpwood that they cut was purchased by a local buyer and exported either by rail, hand loaded into boxcars or by water.

203 x

204 People - Forestry:

Finnish men cutting pulpwood. Nipigon about 1925. Mrs O Lange photo

205 Shots - Forestry:

Carrying pulpwood

206-210 Shots - Forestry:

Carrying pulpwood (not duplicates)

211 x

212 Forestry:

Floating pulpwood down the Nipigon River

213-223 Forestry:

Hauling pulpwood (not duplicates)

224 People:

Rask and Jackson helping with pulpwood

225-229 Forestry:

Hauling pulpwood (not duplicates)

230 Events - Forestry:

Bush workers strike - hiring fed by local people. Year unknown

231 Events - Forestry:

Pulpwood strikers at Nipigon 1935

232-250 x

251 People:

Supposed to be the first white woman in Nipigon. An Irish woman (the story goes) who came to work in the boarding houses and commissariats during the CPR construction. This part may be true, but she was not the first white woman in Nipigon. She got the name “Devil Woman” because of her reaction to the local kids. Died in the early 1930’s, buried in Nipigon.

252 People:

The Loftquists at their home on what is now Loftquist Lake, just outside of Nipigon. Maurice Loftquist is second from Right, a veteran woodsman and prospector, he was typical of the rugged individuals who settled the area and helped set the foundation for the easy life enjoyed by Nipigonites in 1936. Loftquist died in Nipigon in 1933. He had moved to Nipigon some years before.

253 People:

Maurice Loftquist ca 1915. Mrs John Salo, lower Left

254 Views:

Nipigon about 1920-25. Finnish settlers have been building what appears to be a bunkhouse for a logging chance. Men and women worked together. It has been suggested that this was ay Pike Lake, East of Nipigon 

255 People - Views:

Nipigon in the early 1930’s. Tom Merits is posing for this picture somewhere in Nipigon. Note the handmade wooden rake which is the trademark of Finnish homesteaders everywhere.

256 x

257 People:

Mrs Metsala

258 People:

Indigenous family on the move. G Ranta Collection

259 Indigenous family

260 Indigenous family by Tee-Pee 

261 Shots:

Tee-Pee

262 People:

Indigenous family

263 People:

Joe and Jane Martin, 1939

264 People:

Agnes Blakely, Mrs J Sault, Jiggs Hardy in cradle. Some of the crew of the SS Delphine, August, 1932

265 People - Events:

Meeting of the clans at Nipigon, 1931

266 People - Events:

Meeting of the clans at Nipigon, 1931

267 People:

George Armstrong, Maggie Sault and Jiggs Sault

268 - 70 x

Missing (not duplicates)

271 People:

Chief Benny Wawia

272 Locations:

MacDiarmid, Ontario

273 Locations:

MacDiarmid, Ontario. Most probably taken about 1939 or 1940

274 People:

Hudson’s Bay Company men from an 1871 photo in the HBCo Beaver magazine, Spring 1870. Lawrence Clarke, Donald A Smith (Lord Strathcona), James Bisset, Peter Warren Bell, George S McTavish, Alexander MacDonald, and Colin F Rankin. Most served in the Nipigon area.

275 x

276 People:

Elvin C Everett picking strawberries in 1925

277 People:

EC Everett, the strawberry king of Nipigon, 1925

278 People - Events:

EC Everett meeting their Majesties, May 23, 1939. James Smyth (Reeve), camera in hand, Barbara Vivone, Rothney, Mrs John Pajunen and Viola, Lance Grover

279 People - Events:

EC Everett meets Queen Mother Elizabeth the first, May 23, 1939

280 People:

Baden-Powell visits Nipigon. Mrs Orean O’Neil, girl guide leader

281 x

282 Views:

Front Street, Nipigon, February 25, 1944

283 People:

Peg-leg Westman, prospector, 1933

284 Views:

Nipigon, July 2, 1935

285 People:

Nipigon was safe from attack by hostiles during World War II, when the Veteran’s Guard was on dirt at the Nipigon River bridge. These were old fellows who were survivors of the armies of World War I. This picture, taken in 1941, was of the bank of the river. There was no road on the Eastside that went anywhere. That came later

286 People:

POW guards, Red Rock. Donated by Mrs Edward Schlumpf about 1941-1942. (Mrs Schlumpf shown with guards)

287 Locations:

North-shore Lodge, Nipigon

288 Locations:

North-shore Lodge, Nipigon

289 x

290 People:

Hilja and Jack Kaura. Lauha Johnson 2 from Left. About 1937

291 People:

Nick Salo, Victor Neimi, Fini Salo and others

292 People:

Nick Salo, Mrs Alto, ?, John Salo and Victor Neimi

293 People:

Dr Elliott and Susanne , July 14, 1937

294 People:

Mr and Mrs Jack Keto, 1921?

295 People:

Mrs Nurmela at the cemetery about 1918

296 People:

In the good old Summertime Mr and Mrs Jack Keto Coca-Cola horse

297 People:

Mrs Kaato and Mr and Mrs Maata

298 People:

Mr and Mrs Assella

299 People:

Jack Lillova and sister Mary (Mrs Jack Neva), 1933

300 People:

Harold Atwill, 1902 - 1972. One time Reeve of Nipigon. Photo taken January 6, 1939

301 People:

Fred Koski and Speckled Trout

302 x

303 People:

Mrs Kospi

304 Animals:

One of Tommy Laurila’s horses

305 People:

Mrs Jovoneimi, Lempi (now Mrs Toykkala), George shortened to Neimi

306 People:

Mrs Hill

307 - 313 x

314 People:

Ranta, Amelia Haroney, Nurkkila, Aaronen

315 Shots:

Making jam

316 x

317 People:

Mrs Jalaiva

318-325 x

326 People:

Impi and Ranta

327 x

328 x

329 x

330 Animals:

Coca-Cola horse

331 People:

O Lange

332  Locations:

Air-Raid Shelter at Nipigon

333 x

334 x

335 Views:

Downtown Nipigon, late 1930’s

336 People:

John Zechner, Stocco, Roy Mannila, Eddie Atwill, Stocco, Nurmela, Merrill, Collins and Nurmela

337 People:

This picture must have been taken about 1947, as Julian Merrill is the man in the foreground. He was the woods manager

338 People:

Kirby Atkinson, Richard Ruth, Kennedy, Roger John, Clyde Mannila, Roland Atkinson, Briand, Prete, and Roy Winfield

339 People:

Jack Leilova, George Leilova, Mrs Mary Nevola, and Mr Jack Nevola, 1949

340 People:

H Swain, Rev Tansley, Rev Lange, 1949

341 People:

EC Everett

342 - 350 x

351 Events:

Opening of the roads to Nipigon

352 Events:

Nipigon highway bridge opening

353 x

354 People - Events:

Armistice Day Parade, Nipigon. Ron Larson in front in the Army uniform

355 People - Events:

Another Armistice Day Parade, Nipigon. Gus Raita (Ranta?) Collection

356 Events:

Remembrance Day at Nipigon Cenotaph

357 x

358 Events:

May Day Parade in 1929. Trans Canada Highway was just started but discontinued until later

359 Events:

May Day Parade in 1931. Proposed Trans Canada Highway at Left. CPR crossing shown

360 Events:

Canadian Legion Carnival, July 1-3, 1929

361 Events:

Labour Day Parade, 1939-45

362 People:

A Local Nipigon Orchestra in the 1930’s. Drums: Kalle Jarvela Violins: A lad from Lake Helen, Gus Wichstrom Piano: Chas Sodergren Accordion: Arvo Pajunen Trumpet: Mike Lespi Sax: Arvo Ruoho Leader: Ero Salonen Trumpet: Leo Muhkela (?)

363 People:

Capt Belt, Murdock, Violet Zaremski

364 - 365 Events:

Picnic gathering on the East shore of Lake Helen in the early years of 1900

366 Events:

Easter party at Mr and MRs Rob Sloan’s house, Nipigon, 1934

367 People:

Matt Maja, Laimi Maja, youngest daughter Aune, Helma Petersen, Hannah Jarvi, Milka Huntus, Mr and Mrs Majas, Mike Jalvola, Helma Hukka, Audrey Halme, Hilja Hukka (Skillen), Helen Kuiorikoski, Jurrsi Maki, Ture Petersen, Signe Maki, Sandy Kuiorkoski, Lilli Kuiorkoski, John Halme, Helma Halme, Amilia Nurkala, May Nevala, Olga Haaronen, Lemmity Maja. Mr and Mrs Matt Maja’s 25th Wedding Anniversary, 1943

368 x

369 x

370 x

Missing, April, 1967

371 People:

Miss Dominion of Canada 1970. Miss Norma Hickey of Prince Edward Island. Chalet Bungalow Lodge. John Zechner, Labbe, Oliver, A Hannyla, Miss Hickey, Dick Irwin, Sally Pajunen, EC Everett, Nipigon

372 Locations:

CNR Recreation area

373 People:

3rd Left Sam Tison (Tilson?), 1st Right MC Gregnol, 2nd Right Murray Wilson, early 1920’s

374 People:

Marge Mctarlane (McFarlane?), Gertie Atwill at the ball park, site of Multiply Factory ca.1925

375 Locations:

This ball field was located where the Multiply Factory is now set up, about 1925

376 Locations:

Ball park in Nipigon, present site of Multiply, about 1925

377 Locations:

Ball park at present site of Multiply Factory, about 1925

378 Shots:

Notherthe (Northern?) Bloomers, Nipigon, July 31, 1929

379 People:

Sanni Roine, Mrs Ella Kirkpatrick, Mary Hannula, and Hilma Kuursisto

380 Events:

Ski races, 1920?

381 Events:

Ski races, 1920?

382 x

383 x

384 People:

Nipigon Hockey team

385 People:

Karen Mulls, Jeanie Dahl, Peggy Worgen, Doris Williams, Diane Dyck, Joan Holtzman, Jackie Oja, L Nichols, April, 1967

386 Shots:

In the Nipigon River

387 Shots:

Swimming

388 Views:

Nipigon River

389 Views:

Nipigon River, near Island Portage. From “Days on the Nepigon” by Millard, photo about 1915-1916

390 People:

Ronda and Willie Johnson, Mrs Sodergren at Gravel River

391 Views - Locations:

The modest beginning of the Red Rock Trading Post of the HBCo, note the log buildings and the rather rough dock. This indicates freight boats coming in from Lake Superior. Loading downstream from what would be Front Street in 1976. Date is probably 1870, an artist is not known

392 Views - Locations:

The Red Rock Trading Post of the HBCo at the mudflats on dock area of present day Nipigon (1976) Probably a JF Cooke photo of 1895. Frank Wheeler of Nipigon has a mounted original. Could have sold these.

393 Views:

Lettering was done on the Negative and not on the cliff as first glance might suggest. Red Rock Hill overlooking Nipigon harbor, August 1932

394 Construction:

Red Rock Mill construction ?, in 1936?

395 Views:

Red Rock pulp and paper mill

396 Views:

Red Rock mountain

397 Shots:

The slasher at red Rock

398 Views:

The high cliff behind the wood yard is 600-700 feet above the yard level, Red Rock, 1974

399 Views:

A Mesa just North of the junction of Highway 17 and the road from Red Rock, Red Rock, 1974

400 People:

Bob Davidson starting to build at Beardmore

401 Views:

Bunkhouse at Beardmore

402 Views:

Part of the Beardmore hill near river

403 Views - Locations:

Beardmore train station depot

404 Views:

Bearmore, 1939

405 Shots:

Just when a change of wind saved Beardmore

406 Shots:

Some of the worlds goods retrieved from the fire at Beardmore

407 People:

LM Lein, general logging copt. St Lawrence Corp, Beardmore, 1952

408 Locations:

Dancehall at Beardmore

409 People:

Adolph, Beardmore

410 People:

Bill Briveau, Beardmore

411 People:

Jiggs McInnis, Neil Nyland, Ed Leskiman, “Buzz” LM Lein, Bill Baker, Jurna Katajamaki, Arnie Lappalainen, Sean Frasy, Beardmore, November 21, 1951, outsider St Lawrence Corp Depot

412 People:

Bob Clerihew, and Ray Seguin posing at Camp 63 (?), St Lawrence Corp, Beardmore, ca. 1957

413 People:

Louis LeBlanc, ?, Don Stevens, Keith Laberge, Jack Fries, Buzz Lein, Al Jones, JI Rankin, Fred Stevens, Piet Vosges, Capt J Allen, ?, ?, Mae Anne Stevens, Jetta Jones, Mrs Laberge, and Catherine Lein

414 People - Events:

Gerry Poirier - Left, Dick Sainsbury - Centre, presentation at a safety meeting, Beardmore, 1958

415 People - Events:

Basement of the United Church during a concert that was being put on. J McConnell, Grant Powers, Cookie Dampier, Buzz Lein, Jack O’Brien, Hidden, and Ken Plourde, Beardmore, April, 1961

416 People:

Waino Poutanen - Left, Jorma Katajamaki - Right, Beardmore, 1963

417 People:

Waino Poutanen and Jorma Katajamaki, St Lawrence Corp office, beardmore, 1965

418 Views:

Orient Bay, about 1935, Gus Raita (Ranta?) Collection

419 Views:

In the Nipigon vicinity, 1936

420 Construction:

Construction of the Abitibi Marine Base, 1937-38

421 Views - Locations:

Abitibi Marine Base, 1937-38

422 Shots:

Marine Industries operations at orient Bay, 1937-38

423 Views:

Abitibi Marine Base, 1937-38

424-434 Construction:

Abitibi Marine Base, Marine by construction probably 1937-1938 (Not Duplicates)

435 Views:

Orient Bay, late 1940’s

436 Views - Locations:

Royal Windsor Lodge, Orient Bay

437 Views - Locations:

Royal Windsor trailer court and cabins, Orient Bay

438 Locations:

Geraldton

439 Locations

Geraldton

440 Shots:

Train and bus to Leitch

441 Shots:

Empire shaft and Mice from CNR track

442 People:

Bill Briveau

443 x

444 x

445 Locations - Shots:

Bridge over Blackwater River on Leitch Mine Road, Empire shaft in background

446 x

447 x

448 Views:

Lodge of some sort

449 Shots:

Caterpillar tractor doing fire work

450 Boats:

The W Grand Morden after launching the longest Freight boat in the world, Length 625 feet, Port Arthur

451 Views:

Scene from Lookout Rock near Nipigon

452

Shots:

Picture rocks, Nipigon

453 Locations:

CPR bridge looking North. CPR bungalow Chalet Lodge. Wharf, bottom Left, Nipigon, about 1929

454 People - Locations:

Pulpwood (16 feet) on Kama Bay landing, St Lawrence Corp, Cap 81, Joe Moschuk, Nipigon

455 Shots:

The rock from which Split Rock Rapids got its name, Nipigon River, Nipigon, ca. 1900

456 People - Shots:

A 1925 shot of a couple of people in a Freighter canoe. probably in the Nipigon River dock

457 Views:

Lake Helen Indian Mission, Nipigon

458 Locations:

Near King siding, near White River, 1930

459 People:

Bea Everett, Michael daba, Mr and Mrs Hamm, MacDiarmid, September, 1931

460 Locations:

Schreiber

461 x

462 Boats:

Valkyrie II private Yacht, owned by Earl E Schmidt, Detroit

463 Boats:

#79 Icebreaker at work in Lake Superior

464 Boats:

#79 Icebreaker at work in Lake Superior

465 Boats:

The “Empire” boat at Nipigon

466 People - Boats:

Moving an Alligator. These steel hulled, flat bottomed winch boats went to be portaged around the country. Bob Matchett

467 Shots:

Nipigon River, Nipigon

468 People - Locations:

Charlie serves a Speckled Trout dinner on the Nipigon River. Hunter (?) cabin on the hill near Alexander Falls, near  Bass - (?) Charles and Della Stapf, Pete Gagnon and Mr and Mrs Robins

469 Shots:

A means of transportation at Nipigon

470 Views:

Nipigon River

471 Views:

Nipigon Straights, 1939

472 People:

Willie Johnson, Charlie Sodergren, Big Gravel River approximately 1938

473 People:

Alfred Richard and Cecil Selwyn, The Mudflats, Nipigon July 28, 1882

474 x

475 Shots:

The Nipigon River, year unknown

476 x

477 x

478 Locations:

A Photo of a print, looking downstream from what would now be Front Street - Note the modest beginning of HBCo Red Rock Post and the rough dock indicating freight by water from Lake Superior. An 1870 date is not too far out. Both artist and date unknown 

479 Views:

Nipigon Lagoon and Nipigon River, possibly could be 1900 (?)

480 x

481 Locations:

Nipigon HBC post

482 Locations:

Nipigon HBC post

483 Nipigon HBC post

484 Locations:

Evendoer Lodge (?), Lake Nipigon, 1934

485 Views:

Main Street, Nipigon

486 x

487 x

488 Buildings:

Mr Blin (Bellin?) house

489 Buildings:

Little shack at Nipigon

490 People:

Morrisseau (?) Tee-Pee (Indigenous woman)

491 Buildings:

The small house in the background, just a little Right of Centre is what the Museum looked like when it was a house, Note the classic front porch. When a private dwellings, the following families lived there: Cy Flatt, Late 1920’s. Fauberts, 1925-1930. Carl Sjolander, 1930’s-1942

492 Buildings:

The first home in Nipigon belonging to John Nykanen

493 Buildings:

Silta home in Nipigon

494 Locations - Buildings:

The old powder house belonging to the Hudson’s Bay Company at Nipigon. Just below Duckie Thack (Shack?)

495 Buildings:

The gun powder storage of the HBC approx. 1900 or before it was constructed

496 Shots:

Nipigon in 1907

497 Nipigon ca 1895 JF Cooke? Present site of Normandie Hotel

498 - 499 Buildings:

Built by the Olsen brothers in 1909, Nipigon. Presently occupied by George O’Neil. Across the street from the Museum. Rooming house, Restaurant and Pool table, meals 25 cents and 35 cents, Pool 5 cents and 50 cents. Olson Manager (DUP) Skandia

500 People - Buildings:

EC Everett’s store, now the site of Mikkola’s Drugstore. Tioni Matsar, EC Everett, and Jaulotas, about 1929

501 Buildings:

Everett’s store, Nipigon

502 Views:

Main Street, Nipigon

503 Views:

Nipigon

504 Buildings:

Everett’s store, Nipigon

505 Views:

Downtown, Nipigon

506 Buildings:

Hudson’s Bay Company Ltd, David W Haig, Nipigon, 1910

507 x

508 Buildings:

The blind Swedes place, Nipigon, 1912

509 x

510 Locations - Buildings:

Looking across the CPR track to Front Street. The building with the four white upper windows is the Maple Leaf Pool Room, Nipigon, 1905

511 Buildings:

Salonen’s Cafe

512 Views:

Front Street, Nipigon

513 Views:

Aerial view looking from West to East, Nipigon, about 1965

514 x

515 x

516 Views:

Taken from upstairs in the firehall, Nipigon, 1974

517-525 x

526 Views:

Second Street, nipigon, 1970

527 Buildings:

United Church, Nipigon, June 8, 1942

528 Buildings:

Rev T Ward was pastor of this church at this time, followed by Rev Tansley, United Church in 1931

529 Buildings:

St Sylvester’s RC Church, Lake Helen

530 Buildings:

Church in NIpigon

531 x

532 - 533 Views:

Nipigon (DUP)

534 Views:

Nipigon

535 x

536 Views:

Railway Street at Nipigon in 1925

537 Views:

Front Street Nipigon, 1926

538 Locations:

Nipigon in 1928 showing the community hall. At present this building is Clark Motors. The place which is now Bouvier Motors was a restaurant and rooming house

539 Views:

The main street in Nipigon, 1937

540 x

541 x

542 Buildings - Views:

CPR water tank, Everett’s house and store, Fin Hall, Lincoln Hotel, Hudson’s Bay store, Nick Salo’s warehouse, and Consumer’s Co-op warehouse, 1926

543 x

544 Views:

Nipigon, 1936

545 Views:

Nipigon, 1948

546 Views:

Railway crossing, Nipigon

547 Shots:

Forest fire racing towards Nipigon 1941

548 x

549 Shots:

A close-up of forest fire near Nipigon

550 Shots:

Forest fire spots in Nipigon, 1941

551 x

552 Buildings:

Nipigon Post Office

553 Buildings:

The International Hotel, April, 1968

554 Buildings:

Public School, Nipigon 1938

555 x

556 Buildings:

The new hospital, nipigon

557 Events:

The opening of the Nipigon Public Library

558 Buildings:

Nipigon Museum

559 x

560 x

561 Buildings:

The railroad station on the CN before Cameron Falls got it’s name and post office

562 Animals:

Beaver

563 Shots:

A dog team at Nipigon

564 Animals:

A Caribou at Nipigon

565 Animals:

Everett’s dog 

566 x

567 Locations:

Alexander Falls, about 1930

568 Locations:

Windsor CPR station

569 Shots:

Postcard coming from Liverpool, England, 1919

570 Shots:

Christmas postcard donated by Mrs Lillian McGuire of Thunder Bay

571 Shots:

The evolution of the engagement ring

572 Shots:

In comparison with a king size cigarette, probably a knife. Larry Wilson, Atikokan, Ontario 

573 Shots:

Forest

574 Shots:

The old piano in the museum, Nipigon

575 Shots:

EC Everett, Nipigon. on the rocks only once. Regards to my Buzzy friend. 1976

576 Locations:

Albert Hurme’s grave

577 People:

Jack Jal, Dennie, and Jim

578 x

579 Buildings:

Building

580 Construction:

Construction 

581 Construction:

Building a bridge

582 x

583 Construction:

Construction

584 Shots:

The gold rush at Hardrock CNR, Ontario

585 Construction:

CNR bridge construction

586 x

587 Construction

CNR construction

588 Construction:

CNR bridge construction

589 Construction:

Bridge construction

590  Shots:

Near Nipigon

591 People:

Newspaper reporters. Free Press man, marked X

592 Construction:

Construction of the CNR bridge over the Nipigon River

593 x

Missing, Gus Raita (Ranta?) Collection, July 1976

594 Buildings:

Train depot

595 People:

Mitchell and dear old coach after the fire

596 Construction:

Construction of CNR

597 Shots:

The morning after the fire

598 Construction:

CNR construction

599 Construction:

Construction of the CNR

600 People:

Pruice (Prince?) Chichibu in the cab of the engine

601 x

602 x

603 Shots:

Driftwood floating down the Nipigon River

604 - 607 Forestry:

Hauling pulpwood (Not duplicates)

608 Forestry:

Nipigon, ca. 1960. St Lawrence Corp truck haul out of Camp 81 to the landing in Kama Bay. Note there is no license on the vehicle. John Moschuk in charge

609 Shots:

Initial woodland period trade networks

610 Shots:

Supplies for LLL Gold Mine, Geraldton, Ontario, 1934

611 x

612 Shots:

Below the dam at Camp 81, Jackfish River, June, 1962

613 Shots:

Dam at Camp 81 Upper Jackfish River, late 1950’s

614 - 616 Forestry:

Hauling pulpwood (not duplicates)

617 x

618 People:

Cy Flat and Ada Stanley

619 People:

Gus Ranta on the Right 

620-621 People:

Nipigon softball team champions, 1947 (not duplicates)

622 People:

Kama Bay, Mr and Mrs Sodergren

623 People:

William Johnson and Fred Koski

624 x

625 People:

Their Majesties at Nipigon, May 23, 1939

626 x

627 People:

People at Train

628 People:

John Salo and Fiima Salo

629 x

630 x

631 People:

Bottom Left holding the pryer is Omar Lange of Nipigon

632 People:

The three Routanen boys

633 x

634 People:

The little girl is Hilja Lange, nipigon about 1925

635 Buildings - Boats:

Abitibi Marine Base (?) launching tog Nipigon (?), 1938

636 People - Buildings:

House and family (missing)

637 x

638 - 639 People - Buildings:

Missing. (not duplicates, but same people in the same house #636)

640 x

641 Forestry:

Log town, Nipigon River

642 x

643 x

644 Views:

At orient Bay. Gus Ranta Collection, 1976

645 x

646 Shots:

Les Marechal Midgets (dolls)

647 x

648 People:

J Ring, W Koivisto, W Wade, M Thompson, H Whent, and H Swain

649 People:

W Koivisto, W Wade, j Ring, H Whent, M Thompson and Reeve H Swain

650 People - Events:

Hospital Collectors. Arthur Dampier gives cheque for $50.00 to the Hospital Fund Drive. Mrs Minnie, Eric Corner, Mrs J Dampier, Mrs L West, Mrs Goulay, Jim Ring, Beatrice Everett, Mary Gentile, and Fred Vivone.

651 People:

H Johnson, George O’Neil, R Falls, Zechner, Wheeler, and H Swain

652 Shots:

Floods in Nipigon

653 People:

Cranston, Cummings, MacDonald, Fraser, and Corner

654 People - Events:

Open Town Hall, Zechner, Wardrope, Swain, Falls, and Muldoon 

655 People:

“Successful days hunting trip” Petterson Bros hunting party, Nipigon

656 x

657 Animals:

Big game at Nipigon

658 - 660 Buildings:

Nipigon Plywood Mill

661 Shots:

Nipigon 

662 x

663 Buildings:

Nipigon Inn, 1937

664 x

665 Buildings:

Arvo Paju’s, Town Hall, Alku Restaurant, melas 25 cents, later 35 cents, cake and coffee 10 cents, later 15 cents. Railway Street going to CPR bridge, no highway bridge yet, 1935

666 People - Events:

Laying corner stone of the Nipigon memorial Hospital, Reeve Swain, Rev Tansley and Rev Lange

667 x

668 Shots:

Nipigon, 1940

669 Shots:

Railway Street, Nipigon

670 x

671 Buildings:

Ovilio Hotel, Frank DeFazio ice cream, Fred Sanderson fur buyer, Hudson’s Bay Grocery, Hudson’s Bay Warehouse, and the old Nipigon Inn

672 Shots:

Railway Street, Nipigon, 1925

673 Shots:

Front Street, Nipigon, 1926

674 x

675 Locations:

Arvo Paju’s Town Hall, and Theatre by Zantola’s, 10 cents, Old white house, rooming house, and boarding house in early days of CPR construction. No highway bridge yet, McKirdy Avenue on top of hill later

676 - 701 x

702 Views:

Jessie Lake North to narrows between it and Lake Maria, David W Haig photo, 1910

703 Forestry:

Forest Rangers clearing portage, David W Haig Photo, Big Flat Rock, Lake Nipigon, 1910

704 Views:

Big Flat Rock Portage, South Bay end, David W Haig photo, Lake Nipigon, 1910

705 Views:

McDonal’d Chutes, David W Haig photo, Nipigon River, Nipigon, 1910

706 Views:

Scene above Split Rapids, David W Haig photo, Nipigon River, Nipigon, 1910

707 Shots:

Three Speckled Trout caught on Lake Nipigon (or river), David W Haig photo, 1910

708 Boats:

Revillon Bros “ton” Canoe #80, 1800 lbs capability, David W Haig Photo, Lake Nipigon, 1910

709 People - Boats:

Forest ranger - Left, with canoe of the Transcontinental railway (railway construction) David W Haig photo, 1910

710 Shots:

Forest Rangers on Lake Nipigon, David W Haig photo, Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

711 Buildings:

The mission church on Lake Helen, built between 1877 - 1885, David W Haig photo, Nipigon

712 Construction:

Trans-Canada Highway construction, Highway 17, Firehill Creek, East of Nipigon, 1910

713 Shots:

Speckled Trout in aquarium, Beardmore, Ontario, 1965

714 Buildings:

Lake Helen mission school, just South of present mission church, Nipigon, 1925

715 Views:

Looking North from CPR bridge towards Machett’s campground, Swain photo (?), about 1926

716 Locations:

The Taylor House, on site of present Normandie, in 1895

717 Locations:

Red Rock Trading Post, HBCo, Nipigon, 1895

718 Boats:

Birchbark canoe, Lake Nipigon near overflow, South Bay, cards and not paddles here, 1888

719 - 725 x

726 People - Boats:

Local girls and a birchbark canoe, Nipigon, about 1910

727 Forestry:

Logging Cedar near Mileage 56 (?), North of Nipigon, about 1912

728 People:

An indigenous family on the move somewhere in the Longleaf/ Geraldton area about 1925. Original photo in the Nipigon Museum

729 Shots:

Hammer-mill Paddy Neill, about 1922

730 People:

Jane Martin, grandmother of Lawrence of Nipigon. original photo in the Nipigon Museum, taken early in the 1940’s

731 Shots:

CPR bridge across the Nipigon River, possibly about 1895

732 Shots:

CPR Bridge across the Nipigon River, possibly 1915-1925

733 Views:

Big Flat Rock Portage between lake Hannah and South Bay, David W Haig photo, Lake Nipigon, 1910

734 Buildings:

Revillon Bros store, David W Haig photo, Nipigon, 1910

735 Buildings:

Hudson’s Bay Company store, David W Haig photo, Nipigon, 1910 - Copy by LM Lein

736 Buildings:

CPR train station, David W haig photo, Nipigon, 1910

737 Boats:

Tug Ombabika, David W Haig photo, Lake Nipigon, 1910

738 Views - Boats:

Two sailboats at dock, Nipigon House, David W Haig photo, Lake Nipigon, 1910

739 Boats:

Sailboat preparing to dock, David W Haig photo, Nipigon House, 1910

740 x

741 Shots:

Big logs near Nipigon, Kama Bay, Everett photo, 1933

742 Boats:

Yacht Pom-Pom, 1925

743 Shots:

Russell Timber, Black Sturgeon, ca. 1925

744 - 746 Forestry:

Russell Timber, ca. 1925 (not duplicates)

747 Shots:

Virgin Falls, Lake Nipigon, discharge Rangers shack, David W Haig photo, 1910

748 People:

David W Haig with Metis, Wabinosh Bay, Lake Nipigon, 1910 (possibly same as DHP 53 DM)

749 Shots:

Mist arising from Virgin Falls, David W Haig photo, Nipigon River, 1910 (possibly same as DHP 47 DM)

750 Shots:

Interior of Ranger’s shack in the Nipigon Forest Reserve, David W Haig photo, 1910

751 Buildings:

Ranger’s shack in the Nipigon Forest reserve, David W Haig photo, 1910

752 Buildings:

Front Street looking North from opposite the Hudson’s Bay Company store, next the Revillon store, International Hotel barely visible, David W Haig photo, Nipigon, 1910

753 Shots:

Schreiber, Ontario, David W Haig photo, 1910

754 Locations:

Split Rock rapids, Nipigon River, at the lower end of the portage. Original picture by Coleman of the Geological Survey of Canada (?), ca, 1910

755 People:

William “Billy” Watson with the Indian “Friday” somewhere at the North end of Lake Nipigon, David W Haig photo

756 People - Events:

Treaty Day, most probably at Nipigon House of the HBCo, David W Haig photo, Lake Nipigon, 1910

757 People:

Indigenous woman, Lake Nipigon Forest Reserve, David W Haig photo, Lake Nipigon, 1910 (possibly same as DHP 70 DM)

758 People:

Indigenous woman with child, Treaty Day, David W Haig photo, Nipigon House, 1910 (possibly same as DHP 70 DM)

759 People:

“Friday” and his five daughters, probably taken during Treat Day at Nipigon House of the HBCo, David W Haig photo, Lake Nipigon, 1910

760 Views:

From Dog Island across the channel to Nipigon House HBCo, David W Haig photo, Lake Nipigon, 1910 (possibly same as DHP 22 DM)

761 People:

Indigenous boys, Nipigon House, David W Haig photo, Lake Nipigon, 1910

762 People - Locations:

Nipigon House HBCo, group in front of store, David W Haig photo, Lake Nipigon, 1910 (possibly same as DHP 19b DM)

763 People - Locations:

David W Haig Left, and William “Billy” Watson, David W Haig photo, Lake Omakawash, Nipigon Forest Reserve, 1910

764 Shots:

Preparing Moose hide for use as Moccasin and jacket material, lake Superior Country, 1924

765 Shots:

Longlac, Ontario, early 1900’s, Lake Superior Country, 1924

766 People:

John Head of Port Hope, lake Nipigon, lake Superior Country, 1924

767 Views:

Probably Lake Nipigon, Lake Superior Country, 1924

768 Views:

Either Lake Nipigon or Longlac, Ontario, Lake Superior Country, 1924

769 Locations:

Log (Lodge?) of the Northshore Club, Michipicoten, Ontario,  ca 1910 (labeled here by LM Lein 1911)

770 Buildings:

CPR Chalet Lodge Bungalow, ca. 1924 South shore of Lake Helen, Lake Superior Country, 1924

771

Buildings:

Morrisseau residence, South shore of Lake Helen, Nipigon, Lake Superior Country, 1924

772 - 775

Missing (not duplicates but same place, by looks of it)

776 Buildings - Boats:

Morrisseau cabin looking North, Don Clark’s boat, Lake Helen mission, Nipigon

777 Shots:

Province of Ontario Location Certificate for John McCormick

778 People:

Maurice Loftquist

779 Boats:

James Whalen, Icebreakers, Port Arthur, Ontario, early 1900’s

780 Buildings:

The mission school, just below the church, Nipigon, about 1925

781 People - Construction:

The crew of the dredge #6, causeway construction, Nipigon, 1909

782 Buildings:

The small colonnaded building in the centre is the present Nipigon Museum, Nipigon about 1925

783 x

784 People - Locations:

EC Everett with St Sylvester’s in the distance, high 11 skirting, Lake Helen

785 Shots:

The Trans Canada Highway bridge and CPR bridge spanning the Nipigon River, September 20, 1937

786 Boats:

The Kingfisher Boat

787 Locations:

Split Rock is an island cliff rising in the upper Nipigon River, above Cameron Falls. The clear deep water is where the Speckled Trout and Rainbow Trout abound

788 Shots:

Approaching Bain Summit, Trans Canada Highway between Nipigon and Schreiber, September 24, 1937

789 Locations:

Showing the dock where the dinky cars were loaded on barges and towed across Lake Helen to Alexander landing to be transported by light rail up to Ombabika Bay across Lake Nipigon to build the Canadian National Railway. Trans Canada, 1936

790 People:

A family, supposed to be the DeLaronde's. Looks to be about 1912. Is this the house occupied by Mac McCullough in 1976? Just down the street from the Museum, occupied by Frank Dampier in the mid 1920s’s

791 People:

Tommy Laurilla with his deliver van used to haul cases of Coca-Cola in Nipigon. Costed 50 cents per case delivered. Nipigon, about 1922

792 Buildings:

The old powder house at the mudflats. This would appear to be a reconstruction by Bill Plouffe. late 1930’s or middle 1940’s

793 Buildings:

This pool room is the building that is occupied in 1976 by Cassidy’s Jewelry store. This is a copy of an original in the Nipigon Museum, probably from John Salo’s collection, Nipigon, about 1908

794 Buildings:

Taken in the pool room. Cassidy’s Jewelers in 1976. original photo in Nipigon Museum, Nipigon ca. 1908

795 Buildings:

Nipigon Chalet Bungalow Lodge as set up and operated by the CPR. This view is about 1935, Nipigon

796 Boats:

HBCo birchbark canoe, origin unknown, ca. 1880

797 Construction:

Nipigon River, Alexander Falls Construction

798 Locations:

The Revillon Freres post in Ombabika Bay on Lake Nipigon, from a 1913 photo published in the Times Journal in Fort William, The Manager was a Mr Thorpe, his clerk was Hilton George

799 Catastrophes:

CPR wreck at Red Rock 

800 Catastrophes:

CPR Wreck at Red Rock

801 Catastrophes:

CPR wreck at Red Rock

802 Locations:

Abitibi Power and Paper Company, Marine base at Orient Bay, Ontario. Pijitiwabik Bay, Lake Nipigon, 1906

803 Boats:

Abitibi tug “Orient Bay” in dock at Orient Bay Marine Base, Nipigon, 1946

804 Boats:

Tug “Orient Bay” at orient Bay dock. Service launch “Ogima” Abitibi Marine Base - Lein copy

805 Boats:

Abitibi tug Nipigon, Dell Martin, capt - Lake Nipigon, 1946 A Swales photo

806 x

807 x

808 Forestry:

Wood jammed into Little Pike Bay on Lake Nipigon at spilling outlet John Bear? Lake

809 People:

Cook Pat Kelly, Tug Nipigon, Lake Nipigon, 1946

810 People:

The late George Flett in 1946. Seems to be at the discharge of Lake Nipigon, A Swales photo

811 Forestry:

Abitibi wood, lake Helen, August, 1972

812 Catastrophes:

View from the front of the house on Railway Street. The smoke in the centre of the picture is a fire burning along the Hydro line, May, 1973

813 Animals:

Dog sled team on lake Helen (?)

814 Views:

119 Railway Avenue (Street), Nipigon

815 Views:

High Falls, Sturgeon River. Raceway at the bottom, June, 1973

816 Boats:

The Abitibi tis Orient Bay, picking up a raft at the moth of the Sturgeon River, Lake Nipigon, June, 1972

817 Shots:

Namewaminikan River (Sturgeon), lake Nipigon. This shot is at the foot of Long Rapids below Camp 72. This will be the last Domtar pulpwood to be reared from this river, June, 1973

818 Shots:

Lake Nipigon, Namewaminikan River, High Falls, June, 1973

819 Views:

Looking upstream from the Baring bridge across the Sturgeon River at Highway 801, Camp 58 wood, June, 1972

820 Arts:

Artists conception of camping over night in the bush about 1900

821 Views:

Cathedral Rock, nipigon River, Lake Nipigon

822 Shots:

Some sort of trap

823 Shots:

Hanging the fish to dry after they’ve been caught 

824 - 825 Arts:

Artist’s conception of portaging (not duplicates)

826 Locations:

Nipigon HBCo Trading Post

827 Boats:

Canoeing

828 Shots:

“Hitting the rapids”

829 Shots:

Fishing

830 x

831 Shots:

Packing up again to go out on the lake

832 Shots:

Camp 51, transferring from sleighs to trucks, 1954

833 Shots:

Camp 51, St Lawrence Corp, 1954

834 Shots:

Camp 51, St Lawrence Corp, banks of the Sturgeon Vezina

835 Shots:

Camp 51, St Lawrence Corp, banks fo the Surgeon, 1954

836 Construction:

Trans-Canada Highway construction, Fire Hill near Nipigon

837 Construction:

Trans-Canada Highway construction, Fire Hill near Nipigon

838 Construction - Buildings:

Trans-Canada highway construction camps near Kama, near Nipigon

839 Views:

Just below the discharge of the Nipigon River, just below Lake Helen and just above the CPR bridge over the Nipigon River, about 1925

840 Views:

Immediately above the CPR railway bridge. At the bottom of the photo, note the house, the foundation for another, and the skeleton of a wharf at the river bank, about 1925

841 Shots:

Nipigon, just above the CPR bridge. The condition of the young growth indicates about 1925. The tracks are the CNR.

842 Shots:

A CN train on route from Nipigon, East to longlac and other points? photo taken from the CPR bridge. Nipigon ca. 1925

843 Boats:

At the Lake Nipigon end of Big Flat Rock Portage. Birch bark canoes, Rev E Frost, 1885

844 Shots:

An enlarged view of the method used in 1885 in prating canoes over short portages. Rev E Frost

845 Boats:

Portaging birchbark canoes on the Nipigon River. White Chutes portage. Rev E Frost, 1885

846 - 850 x

851 People:

James Hogan and his shoe repair shopped residence at Nipigon. Showing United Churches and Catholic Church. Pigeons stayed in the Belfry of the United Church

852 Shots:

Nipigon docks, 1920

853 Shots:

Nipigon about 1948 and before the breakwater was put in

854 Catastrophes:

The burning of McKirdy’s store, 1921

855 Shots:

Nipigon

856 People:

Jenia (illegible) Laurila, and friend Otto Koski

857 - 858 Shots:

Front Street Nipigon (Not duplicates)

859 Locations:

Nipigon Hudson’s Bay Trading Post

860 x

861 Shots:

Main street Nipigon

862 Shots:

In front of McKirdy’s store

863 People - Views:

The CPR bridge over the Nipigon River about 1925. Vic Strachan, Midge Hicke, and John Sutherland

864 Buildings:

The famous little CPR station for passengers going to the CPR’s Chalet Lodge bungalow camp in the days when it was a posh tourist camp. Moved to Nipigon. Jim Martin’s residence as of 1975

865 Shots:

Highway 11 prior to construction. this is along the shore of Lake Helen, just north of the mission church, November 7, 1938

866 Buildings:

St Sylvester’s Church, Lake Helen

867 Boats:

Tug Nipigon at the spilling cap at outlet of Lake Nipigon, 1946

868 Views:

View of the lower Nipigon River taken from Front Street, Nipigon, 1925

869 Buildings:

Taken in the vicinity of the CPR overpass. Looks like the house that DelRonde - Dampier - McCullough lived in. Nipigon, about 1925

870 People - Locations:

The wooden overpass bridge over the CNR tracks, That’s Gertie Atwill on the bridge. Nipigon, about 1925

871 Shots:

Front Street, Nipigon in 1925

872 Buildings:

Maple Leaf Pool Room, Nipigon in 1910

873 Shots:

Nipigon Bay, 1939

874 Buildings:

Presbyterian Church in the background. J Hogan, shoe repair, Nipigon

875 Construction:

Highway 17 construction in the 1930’s

876 Views:

Suicide Hill

877 People - Animals:

Michael Friday being towed by a Caribou in the Nipigon River

878 People:

Joe Martin, Nipigon

879 People:

Frank Dampier, (Alfred Dampier’s father)

880 Buildings:

EC Everett’s store in Nipigon 

881 People:

Mrs Everett, Taunt, Michael Daba, EC Everett’s sister, and Mike Potan. Pine portage, Nipigon River, September, 1931

882 Shots:

Railway bridge at Nipigon with newly completed highway bridge in foreground, 1937

883 People:

Mrs B Duncan, Cameron Falls, 1930’s

884 Construction:

Trans-Canada Highway bridge under construction across the Nipigon River, July 21, 1937

885 Shots:

This is the first picture after the completion of the Trans-Canada highway bridge - CPR bridge in background, September 20, 1937

886 People - Locations:

Mr and Mrs Chas Stapf (famous fishermen) with guide Pete Gagnon and Mr and Mrs Robins from Prescott, Wisconsin. This photo shows the Breadwater dam in the distant Left where the Nipigon River was re-routed and channel put in to straighten out the Nipigon River

887 Shots:

Front Street, Nipigon in 1926

888 People - Buildings:

New Elk’s Hall, Nipigon about 1952. Drums - Heimo Johnson, Piano - Uno Manilla, Trumpet - W Jackson, Sax - Ollie Christianson, Violin - Mrs Christianson

889 Forestry:

Camp 14, Jackfish River about 1946-47, Don Clark Wood, truck haul

890 - 899 x

900 Forestry:

Camp 14, Jackfish River truck haul, 1946-1947

901 Locations:

Empire Gold Mine at Beardmore, Ontario, 1940

902 Locations:

Reflection Lake, Ontario, October 22, 1938

903 Forestry:

Peeled pulpwood, showing camps near Nipigon 

904 People:

Pulpwood workers

905 x

906 x

907 Shots:

HBC packing to leave 

908 Buildings:

Lodge of some sort

909 Boats:

“Superior” on Lake Nipigon (?)

911 x

912 x

913 Forestry:

Hauling pulpwood

914 Shots:

Camp Red Rock, July 28, 1882. Alfred, Richard and Cecile Selwyn

915 Shots:

Lake Nipigon, 1882

916 Shots:

Nipigon River

917 Locations:

Nipigon HBCo Trading Post

918 Shots:

Split Rock, nipigon River ca. 1876

919 Shots:

Nipigon

920 Shots:

City of Hydro

921 Shots:

River Bld (?) after waterways shut off at Cameron Falls to allow men to put steel gates in place

922 Buildings:

House for the staff, they built 10 like this

923 Locations:

Cameron Falls, nipigon River. Photo by henry “Punch” Nolan, 1926-1927 (?) Donated by his daughter Miss Lorraine Bailey of Aylmer West Ontario, May, 1977

924 - 927 z

928 Views:

Nipigon River from a point near the present cemetery, about 1925. Note the shape of the HBCo buildings  and the islands out in front.

929 People:

Nipigon Seals (?), September 1932. Ed Ellis, Wilf Doris, Harold Atwill, H Briand, F Atwill, D Whent, Red Winfield, Eino Deffala, Uno Manilla, Oscar (?), Len Faubert

930 Buildings:

Cameron Falls on the River North of Nipigon. This photo of the power house is about 1925. This would be the second phase.

931 Locations:

Cameron Falls Hydro-Electric and Power Hydro ca. 1925

932 Shots:

Cameron Falls, nipigon River about 1925 or 1926. Completion of the second phase

933 Forestry:

Abitibi P&PC, Auden area, 1935 - 1940. Hot lunch

934 Forestry:

Deck load, 1942 or 1943, nipigon Bay, Don Clark wood. 50-60 boats per season

935 Shots:

Christmas card, 1938

936 Arts:

William Armstrong painting in the Sault Ste Marie Museum mouth of the harbor (?) Nipigon Straits ?

937 Animals:

Dog sled team

938 People:

Grand Trunk Northern, engineer Caldwell and staff on the Kabinagagami River North of Amoit, Ontario on the CPR, 1906. Dr H Bryant

939 Anilas:

Dog sled team

940 x

941 x

942 People:

Mrs John desChamps, Mrs Joseph Morrisseau, Mrs Susan Pigeon and Joe Sault

943 People:

Michael Bouchard and son Louis Bouchard

944 x

945 Locations:

Mobert in 1946

946 People:

Joe Odohauh (Odawa?), Lake Helen in 1915 (?)

947 People:

Wallace Everett and Susan Pigeon, April 19, 1939

948 People - Animals:

Noel Manitobens and his dog sled team in 1916

949 Buildings:

Lake Helen Mission School, Nipigon

950 x

951 Construction:

CPR Railway construction. Workers i front of Log Shacks (?), Nipigon area, 1884

952 Construction - Buildings:

CPR Railway construction. Nipigon area, log camps, 1884

953 Construction:

Construction of the car tunnel at Jackfish, Ontario 1884 Minnesota Historical Society?

954 Construction:

Rock cut during the construction fo the CPR, Pays Plat, Ontario, 1884

955 - 969 x

970 Boats - Shots:

Canoeing on the Nipigon River

971 Shots:

At the Nipigon HBCo Trading Post

972 - 976 x

977 Construction:

Shows Firmand kind of equipment used, CNR causeway construction at Nipigon, 1910

978 People - Construction:

Jack McIntyre with the axe, CNR causeway construction, Nipigon, 1910

979 People:

Guess what the guy is doing at the corner of the boxcar, CNR causeway construction, Nipigon, 1910

980 Forestry:

Russell Timber, Black Sturgeon, 1930’s Minnesota dray 

981 People - Forestry:

Russell Timber Co Ltd. Taken outside a camp off ice, probably Black Sturgeon. Russell in grey sweater.

982 Forestry:

Hauling pulpwood

983 Forestry:

Russell Timber. the way the boss used to get around, 1930’s

984 Boats:

Russell Timber, ca. 1930’s, the famous yacht Pom-Pom

985 Forestry:

Russell Timber, Black Sturgeon, jammer loading of either 8 foot, or tie blocks

986 Forestry:

Waterline camp 58’s bank piled wood, Sturgeon River, Lake nipigon, 1972

987

Watering bank piled wood at Camp 58, Sturheon River, Lake Nipigon, 1972

988 Forestry:

Below the Bailey bridge across the Sturgeon River at Highway 801, Camp 58 wood, June 1972

989 Forestry:

Wood in storage, ready for moving downstream. Above Camp 72, Sturgeon River, Lake Nipigon, 1972

990 Forestry:

Wood stored behind the Camp 72 boom. Sturgeon River, Lake Nipigon, 1972

991 Forestry:

The head of Long Rapids at old camp 71, Sturgeon River, Lake Nipigon, 1972

992 Views:

Looking down the Sturgeon River from the Bailey bridge across the river at Camp 72, Lake Nipigon, June, 1972

993 Forestry:

Last of the pulpwood being reared out of Long Rapids below old Camp 72, Lake Nipigon, Namewaminikan River,. E Kivi, foreman

994 Views:

Just above the first Falls, Lake Nipigon, Namewaminikan River, June, 1973

995 People:

Bill Carmody, Lake Helen, 1922

996 Construction:

Street construction, First Street, nipigon

997 Boats:

“Kingfisher” at the Nipigon docks

998 People:

Big game hunters at Nipigon

999 Buildings:

St Sylvester’s Church, Lake Helen