Main entry:

Groom, Maude Dugan, 1914-

Title & Author:

The melted years, by Maude Groom.

Publication:

New Liskeard, Ont., Printed by Temiskaming Print. Co. [1971]

Description:

215 pages illustrations, portraits 23 cm

Notes:
Promoting settlement -- Frontier feuds -- Loggers trek north -- Settlers arrive from Sweden -- Entertaining Indians -- The early logging camp -- Homestead tribulations -- The silver-lined railroad -- The rush in on -- Logging on Mill Creek -- Townsites and mines open -- More settlers come by train -- Typhoid epidemic -- Nipissing Central Railway arrives -- North Cobalt grows -- World War 1 and after -- The miner's strike -- Cobalt has growing pains -- Spannish flu, sports and flaming youth -- The Haileybury fire -- Aftermath and reconstruction -- Disaster in the mines -- Flotsam and jetsam -- The old steamboat "Meteor" -- The northern press -- Depression clouds -- The amazing ski-trek -- More depression days -- The Algonquin regiment at war -- World War II and recovery -- A miner's courage -- Ballot box and other events -- Victorious sunshine set -- Last of the prospectors

Summary:

Stories of the early settlement of Bucks and Dymond Townships in Northern Ontario.

Subject:

Frontier and pioneer life Ontario.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Ontario History.
Ontario Histoire.
Ontario.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 131294
Call No.: ID CAN; ID:86-B7392
Status: Available