Claybelt Tapestry
Weaving the Past
Volume 3
Claybelt Tapestry series is a collection of little-known or forgotten happenings, endeavours and businesses in the early South Temiskaming District. Many businesses or institutions are no longer with us, and so documenting their existence provides a unique view into the area's history.
Knowledge of many of these little-known or forgotten happenings, endeavours and businesses in the early South Temiskaming District is now only remembered by a ever-decreasing number of seniors. The files of the Temiskaming Speaker were invaluable in chronicling some of these activities.
No attempt was made to re-write some stories. The Fire of 1922 is covered extensively in the book The Great Fire of 1922 [ISBN: 0-88954-413-1]. Northern Telephone's history is covered in Northern CallingThe Northern Connection: Ontario Northland Since 1902 [ISBN 0-921801-83-1]; and A Century of Travel On The Ontario Northland Railway [ISBN 0-9730521-1-2].
The Museum has shared what we know so that many of these stories are not totally forgotten. Any corrections or additional information can be sent to the Museum, where we can keep the documentation together, preserving our past as accurately as we can.
If you would like to order one, download this PDF form and mail it in with payment, or call a Museum director at 705-647-5580 or 705-679-5555 to get your copy. They are available at the Museum's Gift Shop, open in the summer while the Museum is open, other times by appointment. Available year round online at White Mountain Publications, and in store at 50 Silver Street, Cobalt, ON
Table of Contents | Index for this volume
ISBN: 978-0-9921605-8-6 | 8½" x 11" | 96 pages | photos, maps and illustrations | trade paperback | $30.00
Table of Contents
3 Introduction
6 A Town is Born
8 Chevalier Pierre de Troyes' Commando Raid
12 History of Some of Our Local Rural United Churches
Hillview United Church, Hillview
Hudson Baptist Church, Hudson Township
Alexander Memorial United Church, Milberta
Trinity United Church, Sutton Bay, Harris Township
Thornloe United Church, Thornloe
Hanbury United Church, Hanbury
Uno Park United Church, Uno Park
Leeville-Henwood Church, Cane and Henwood Townships
The Church of the Stranger, Elk Lake
Trinity United Church, Earlton
Hilliard United Church, Hilliardton
McCool United Church, Kerns Township
Zion Lutheran Church (1912--2008), Chamberlain Township
Earlton Gospel Hall
27 Craven Rock Trust
29 Woman from McCool Remembers What It Was Like In Thirties
31 Devastating Hurricane
33 Earlton Extreme Weather Records
34 Farming Around New Liskeard, The Agricultural Centre of Temiskaming 1908
36 Farming around New Liskeard, The Agricultural Centre of Temiskaming 1909
39 Good Friday 1913 -100th Anniversary of the Storm
42 Local History Quiz #1
43 Local History Quiz #2
44 Lac Temiscamingue
49 Ice Break-Up of Lake Temiskaming
50 The Letter From World War I, Corporal George Wilson Brayman
56 The Markham Excursion to Temiskaming - 1897
71 Ode to the Cream Can
72 The Pioneer Timber Trade
74 Shepherdson Basket Works, Shepherdson Road, New Liskeard, Ontario
78 Temiskaming and What We are Doing (1944 Report)
86 Torrential Rains June 26, 1930 Cause Much Damage in Temiskaming District
88 Tri -Town Drive-In Theatre
90 Uno Park Butter and Cheese Factory