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Timmins Became Stable Community By BRUCE LEVETT have chopped $500,000,000 worth TIMMINS, Ont. (CP)--Tim-/of gold out of the tunnels of the mins was born 50 years ago in|Hollinger mine alone nearly the glow of gold and fire. twice as much again has been |town. | Many of the stories ated six months later. Unlike the placer camps, Tim- mins has failed to produce a Jack London or a Robert W. Service to chronicle the stories that have grown up with the grew| from the forest fire of July 11, 1911. Actually, the fire missed the sandy plain on the east bank of the Mattagami River where Timmins was to be incorpor- tom of the shaft died of suffo- cation. They're buried in an outlying graveyard called Deadman's Point -- reputed to) have been the only green patch left in the area after the fire. The people speak of Rev. Charles Theriault, who walked the snow trails with his baptis- they call it Val Gagne. G. Porcupine Advance. around the time when Timmins) itself was christened. He was a) |pioneer in a land where 50 be- over television. of Nuska on the map--today|the other 19 back to health. It A. Macdonald once wasiin that house with 19 miners.| editor of an early Timmins weekly newspaper called the Now re- tired, a widower, he lives in a museum-like room in a board- ( ing house and, once a week, mal kit in a small black bagitejls the tales of early Timmins A courtly man, he is one of convict, but the magistrate) threw out the case on a tech-| nicality."" "But the miners didn't think) Mr. Macdonald tells the story it was scandalous. When the| as a case in point. Timmins is girls came down with 'flu, the|the capital city of a hard land. men took over and nursed) "Something good has come them, lout of all this hardship," he "Later, the -girls were ar! says, rested for running a blind pig.) «There's a spirit of people By this time. the epidemic was)heiping people which was born long past. The police had alllin those early days. We remem- |was scandalous--those two girls THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, August 13, 1962 2] so, today, we have beautifull ANCIENT LAW hospitals. | LONDON (CP)--Discovery of "There was disaster in ihe/an ancient law has brought a mines and now we have safety|£799 windfafl to the church of measures which are copied all|st, Botolph's in the Aldgate dis- over the world. We have trained|trict, The law, dating back to rescue crews we send all over/Norman times, allows the the country to help other peo-ichurch to levy a tax on firms ple. in its parish. The money is to "I wouldn't want to live any-|/be used for restoration work on Like many other gold towns,|taken from the other mines in the rush came after Indians)the area. brought nuggets into a trading UP-TO-DATE TOWN The result has been a stable low zero is not unusual and la-\'fe night people of Timmins. : F ) ter founded Notre Dame de) You can usually find him at githe evidence they needed tolber the 1918 'flu epidemic and Lourdes Roman Catholic a.m.,, alone, in the back booth) woe " aii Church. of an all-night restaurant. And)j : ss if you ask, he'll tell you of twol} aired in lfrom. the outset. Today, this|drifted into the Timmins area, _-- PRIEST girls of "uneasy virtue" who it wa : famili Hernan? of 28,000 people--65 per! The story of how people G - they enn 3 a Father became "'the angels of the Por-|| 8 a familiar pattern--UP\cent Roman Catholic --has 25|wadeq into lakes up to their agne, wr A ig: whose parish cupine. to a point. , cif was at Nuska, just southwest of «+ occurred during the 1918- . hotels, twice that number of bar- i il told in T ; h But this was no placer town, ber shops and beauty parlors,|908es is still told in timmins. oe sumed : . 19 'flu epidemic which killediff So is the story of "a giant of} He returned from a train trip) shout 100 in the Timmins-South | Porcupine area. Pe gee gd Dh guyana Tim-| In common with other gold- flock ih cone viens, pe | mins sank het roots deeper|mining areas, Timmins also has : : se 4 4 H Snes He led 20 persons, including] Father Gagne set up emer-|'%, ill in their boarding house. if shafts. where the miners washed ihe|23 churches and most of the : : ; a man named Weiss" who was|in 1916 to find his town in than the miners could sink their -ertai 5 i ; ; : Hise coe eee vue his family, down the mine shaft! gency headquarters in a store| body would go in to help To date, in this community. price of gold has remained un-|to escape the flames. land died there with the people -- | y 500 miles north of Toronto, changed at $35-an ounce for the 'The fire roared by above and/to whom he was ministering Chen one died. ; HI | : Sf those' miners and their sons last 24 years the group huddled at the bot- Don't look for the settlement "The girls went in and nursed y @ f the creeks and moved "essi gold from s other necessities and luxuries. of Will ae? 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