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Before the Claybelt was even known to exist, a Hudson?s Bay Company factor, Charles Cobbold Farr began to dream about agricultural settlement on the Ontario shoreline of Lake Temiskaming. His initial ideas resulted in his booklet on the agricultural possibilities of Temiskaming. It is a concise overview of conditions on the Ontario side. One of its virtue?s is the honest and even blunt way Farr presented facts and figures.

Soon after, in 1900 the Ontario government sent out ten survey parties to cover Northern Ontario. One of this conclusions was the verification that a huge area of clay belt existed and a large area of it would support an agricultural settlement, much like what was already established across Lake Temiskaming in Quebec.

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A dreamer and a doer - C. C. Farr
1896
District of Temiskaming, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Norman R. Hawirko

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Advice for the British Immigrant
1906
Canada

Credits:
Archive.org

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Learning about New Ontario
1911
District of Temiskaming, Ontario, Canada

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The Wabi River before settlement
c1902
Wabi River & Bay, New Liskeard, Ontario

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Booming up at the Wabi River
c1904
Wabi River & Bay, New Liskeard, Ontario

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William Murray an original settler
c1901
Wabi River & Bay, New Liskeard, Ontario

Credits:
LCHM

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William Murray, Miss Beavis and Mr. McCamus in later years
New Liskeard (City of Temiskaming)

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The head of the Matabanick Trail - Haileybury
c1902
Haileybury (City of Temiskaming Shores), Ontario.

Credits:
LCHM

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The Crown Lands Agent - John Armstrong
c1898
Toronto, Ontario

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Arriving on the Steamer ?Meteor?
c1900-1910
Lake Temiskaming, Ontario

Credits:
LCHM

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The journey up Lake Temiskaming
1900-1915
Lake Temiskaming, Ontario

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The land from a steamboat before 1904
2009
Lake Temiskaming, Ontario

Credits:
Norman Hawirko

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The land from the train - after 1904
1967
Lake Temiskaming, Ontario

Credits:
ONR Archives, North Bay Museum