Gillies Depot: A Temiskaming Journal
by Fancy, Peter
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dustjacket as issued.
- ISBN 10
- 0889544239
- ISBN 13
- 9780889544239
- Seller
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Highway Book Shop, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dustjacket as issued. . 0x0x0. From its earliest years of Matabanick fur trading and portage days, the Gilles Depot story moves through shanty camp cutting times when the Gilles Brothers Company harvested its Montreal River timber limits. In 1903, the same year when Temiskaming & Northern Ontario (TNO) railway workers were exposing silver at Cobalt, Gilles Depot was taking shape at the ancient Matabanick Trail departure point on the Montreal River. In 1904 provincial surveyors mapped the new Township of Coleman. Peter Fancy The railway company placed a section house at the Depot site, then a railway station. Gilles Company started a public school which would last for thrity years. Prospectors scoured the surrounding bushfor minerals. The Booth Lumber Company built a barking plant upriver. And once completed in 1928, the province's Ferguson Highway brought tourists and permanent settlers to what was becoming known as Gillies.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010027862
- Title
- Gillies Depot: A Temiskaming Journal
- Author
- Fancy, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket as issued.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0889544239
- ISBN 13
- 9780889544239
- Publisher
- Highway Book Shop
- Place of Publication
- Cobalt, On, Canada
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 0x0x0
- X weight
- 28 oz
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