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Development of mines that would make the Porcupine Lake area of northern Ontario one of the world's great gold producing areas was still in its infancy in 1910 when the Montreal Star described winter travel into one of the new gold towns. Excerpts from The Montreal Star, January 31, 1910.
THE STAMPEDE TO PORCUPINE GOLD FIELDS.
Special staff correspondent.
Bannerman's Camp, Porcupine Lake, New Ontario, January 28.
Every man, woman and child of the 250 people who live at Matheson is proud of the sleigh road which the citizens of that place claim to have built from "the steel," as they call the railroad, to Porcupine Lake.
They put up a sum of $2,000 between them to build the road...
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