Voices From The Past
Heritage Perspectives 1
Columns by Doug Mackey
Contents:
Introduction and Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Communities
A Visit to Long-ago Powassan
South River Nestles on Both
Sides of Highway 11
Astorville History in
Perspective
Nipissing Village Once Area’s
Commercial Centre
A Trip to Temagami’s Bear Island
How Some Townships Got Their
Name
Chapter 2: Lost Communities: Vanished Villages
Fossmill - a Town No More
Staniforth Lumber Company Comes
to Kiosk
Brent’s Early History
The Vanished Village of Klock’s
Mills
A Second Look at the Vanished
Village of Klock
The J.B. Smith Lumber Company at
Frank’s Bay
Chapter 3: Northern Personalities
Tom Thomson in Our Neck of the
Woods
Mattawa Woman Grey Owl’s
Inspiration
How Grey Owl and Anahareo Made
Christmas
Two Artists, Two Kindred Spirits
Mattawa’s Dr. Firmin Monestime
Remembered
Hartley Trussler Remembered on
Powassan’s 100th
Remembering the Late, Great
Lady: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence
Chapter 4: Northern Life
‘Rural Roots’: Mail Service in
the Townships
Rural Schools: a History of
Change
Memories of Old General Stores
General Stores Were Heart of
Communities
Christmases in the Bush Long Ago
A Moose-hunting Adventure of
Long Ago
The Deer Left to Die
Mica Mining in Mattawan
Mining on the Manitous
Chapter 5: Trains, Planes, Boats & Bikes
The History of a Mystery Train
Wreck Solved
Perspectives on Plane Crashes
from the Past
Lake Nipissing Steamboat’s Date
with Destiny
Alligators Plied Nipissing’s
Waters
Ship Canal Planned for North Bay
Area
Canadian First Coast to Coast
Car Trip
Happy Birthday Harley-Davidson
Chapter 6: Our Military
Legendary Soldier - Native
Leader
The Christmas Truce of the First
World War
An Algonquin Veterans’ Reunion
and a Snapshot from the Past
An Algonquin Regiment POW Story
German POWs Work for South River
Company
Index