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Trout Creek Logging Co. Ltd Locomotive1900
Ontario, Canada
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Trussler Brothers Lumber CompanyTrussler Brothers operated near Trout Creek and with the help of the Trout Creek Logging Co. steam locomotive.
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Trussler Brothers Lumber Company1890
Ontario, Canada
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Trussler Brothers harvested some of the most beautiful white pine lumber in the area.31
Trussler Brothers Lumber Company1908
Ontario, Canada
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They did the majority of their harvesting in the winter seasons as it was easier to transport the logs over snow then in the summer.33
Temiscaming and Northern Ontario Track north of Fraserdale.1950
Ontario, Canada
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Mining in Northern OntarioAnother industry that assisted greatly with the opening of the north was mining.
In the case of the silver discovery at Cobalt a gentlemen working on the construction of the T.& N.O. named Fred LaRose. He was one of the first to stake claim at Mile 103.
In general the construction of the T.& N.O. into the north allowed prospector's, urged on by the Cobalt discovery, to easily enter the north on their hunt for a major strike.
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Cobalt, Ontario, Canada1905
Cobalt, Ontario, Canada
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Cobalt was a community that grew quickly. The faster word spread about the discovery of silver the faster new prospector's arrived and they arrived by train.This photograph was taken around 1905-1906 and by 1909 when the second T.& N.O. Station at Cobalt was completed the community was serviced by all professions. The community even had its own newspaper, the Cobalt Nugget, which later moved to North Bay and is the North Bay Nugget.
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Temiscaming and Northern Ontario Station, Cobalt, Ontario1909
Cobalt, Ontario, Canada
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Map of Rail Routes, 19091992
Ontario, Canada
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As of 1909 when the T.& N.O. track reached Cochrane a total of 12 locations were identified along the track between Nipissing Junction/ North Bay and Cochrane.40
Ontario Northland Railway milk ticket1950
North Bay, Ontario, Canada
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