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February 2015 Volume 7: Issue 4 the Irondale Bancroft and Ottawa Railway Is Drifts and Have to Back up and Hit the Inside This Issue: a Legend in Local Lore Kinmount Gazette KINMOUNT GAZETTE THE KINMOUNT COMMITTEE FOR PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT More Tales of the IB&O February 2015 Volume 7: Issue 4 The Irondale Bancroft and Ottawa Railway is drifts and have to back up and hit the Inside this issue: a legend in local lore. This railway ran from drifts again (and again). At the worst of RIENDS EIGHBOURS 2 Howland Junction to Bancroft. The Ottawa times, it was necessary to break out the F & N terminus never happened: it was just a fanta- shovels. SIDE ROADS OF KINMOUNT 4 sy. But this fact should not deter from the Local residents often used the rail line as THE LIFE OF A LUMBERMAN 5 importance of this railway to local history. a plowed road in winter; whether the The Gazette has featured several articles on transport was on foot or by horse. One COUNCILLOR’S CORNER 7 this railway, but the stories just keep coming. time the train caught up to a farmer haul- THE URANIUM MINES OF CARDIFF 8 Here are some more ―stories‖ about the Great ing a load of wood along the plowed KIDS CORNER 9 IB&O. tracks. The train stopped and the crew THE HOT STOVE 10 In the pre-snow plow days (before 1930), the helped the farmer get his load of wood off DOROTHY’S DELIGHTS 15 railway lines were often the only access the tracks. After passing, the crew stopped roads kept snowplowed. The railways simply a second time and helped the farmer and WINTER FUN IN KINMOUNT 17 bolted a huge snow plow on the engine to load back onto the tracks! Now that‘s EDITORIAL 19 keep the tracks clear. There was no snow service! plow special; the regular train moved the The IB&O met a special train sent from Visit us in colour at snow. A century ago there were fewer trees the Grand Trunk Railway Lindsay at kinmount.ca to act as wind blocks, and (supposedly) more Howland Junction. One wintry day, the All issues available online snow in winter so the railways dealt with Lindsay train became stuck in a particu- some pretty massive snow drifts. It was not larly nasty snow drift at Howland and had unusual for trains to get stopped by monster Continued on page 4 Get Results! ADVERTISE IN THE GAZETTE! Annual kinmount Winterfest Rates per issue: Business Card Size $15 2 x Business Card $30 1/4 Page $40 February 21: Family Snowflake Ball 1/2 Page $75 Kinmount Community Centre 6:30-9:00 PM Full Page $150 [email protected] February 22: PancakeWINTERFEST Breakfast 705 - 488 - 2919 Kinmount Community Centre 8:00 AM-11:00 AM The Gazette is a non profit monthly publication produced by volunteers as February 22: Family festival a community service. 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Twitter! @kinmount SPONSORED BY KINMOUNT COMMITTEE FOR PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Kinmount Gazette Kinmount Committee for Planning and Economic Development Friends and Neighbours: Cardiff Cardiff Township is the east- sign, but were arranged artisti- finished in a few ernmost township in Halibur- cally on their lots to break up the short years. The ton County. It is so far east of ―row house‖ appearance. The Dyno Mine closed the Haliburton-Minden axis bungalows had full basements in 1960 and the that its history is more closely and were quite modern for the Bicroft Mine in tied to Bancroft and Hastings era (1950s). These new houses 1963. Most of the County. The township never were for miners only; separate miners moved contained any large villages, subdivisions were set up for away. Local resi- even though it contained post company executives at Bicroft dents were wor- offices at Kidd‘s Corners, Heights and Bow Lake. ried Cardiff Vil- Cheddar, Highland Grove and The homes were company lage would be- Paudash. None of these settle- owned and rented to miners. If come a ghost ments became large centres. you changed companies, you had town. Rumours The township even had access to change houses! The Bicroft spread the compa- to two colonization roads town plan called for churches nies would bull- (Monck Road and Burleigh and a school, but no commercial doze their homes. Road) and the IB&O Railway. section. Two churches and the Panic spread It looked like there would be school were built, but the village among the Cardiff no large villages in Cardiff missed having retail stores. residents. But Car- Township. But in the 1950s, Since the land was company- diff was destined to all that dramatically changed. owned, nobody could build move on. Dyno In 1946, uranium was discov- stores. The solution was to open Mines had man- ered in many places in Cardiff small businesses in some base- aged to sell its 50 Township and in neighbour- ments. There were 2 such con- homes to private ing Hastings County. There venience stores and a post office individuals. Bicroft was a mining rush as several located in basements. The post Mines sold its houses in a lot to Cardiff village became a satellite large mining companies be- office was called Cardiff. A doc- Bowes And Cocks Reality com- community. A new Legion, post gan mines. Huge numbers of tor opened an office (again in a pany. The houses had cost office and community centre experienced miners were sud- basement) and the Bicroft Mu- $10,500 to build in 1956 and joined the 2 churches and the denly brought in to work in nicipal office occupied another were sold to the Realtor for school. A general store was located the area. Many of these new building. Since many of the min- $4,500. Bowes and Cocks put on along the highway. Bicroft district arrivals had families and re- ers were veterans, a Royal Cana- a heavy marketing campaign, was dissolved and merged with the quired accommodation. The dian Legion branch was the first concentrating on retirement age original Township of Cardiff, old fashioned temporary bunk community hall. seniors. Eventually all the hous- building a new township office at houses were not suitable, and Most of the residents of Cardiff es were sold and the community the site. Later Cardiff Township there was no surplus of hous- were forced into Bancroft for saved from destruction. Cardiff was amalgamated into the Munici- ing in the area. The solution shopping. A new extension for attracted many retirees, but there pality of Highlands East (with was a new town called Bi- the Monck Road (then Highway was also a large number of fami- Monmouth and Glamorgan). And croft. #121) was built straight west to lies with school age children the village of Cardiff was saved The site selected was at the meet Highway # 28 at Paudash who kept the school open to this from oblivion to carry on today. junction of the Monck Road Lake. The township of Cardiff very day. and McGillvray side road had a change in municipal close to the Haliburton- boundaries. The original town- Hastings County boundary. ship was subdivided into 2 mu- The site was rather swampy nicipalities: the Township of and tons of fill was required; Cardiff and the Improvement but it was flat (rather unusual District of Bicroft. The mines topography for Cardiff Town- and the village were placed in ship). Within a few years 232 the new District to meet govern- houses were built on the site. ment (mining land use) regula- Of these 150 homes were tions. The boundaries were very built for the Bicroft Mine erratic. employees and 50 for the Dy- Mining towns are fickle commu- no Mines workers. These nities. Mining follows a boom were the two largest compa- and bust cycle, and the cycles nies with mines nearby. The can be total bust. The uranium houses were all the same de- boom started in 1955 and was Page 2 Kinmount Gazette Kinmount Committee for Planning and Economic Development Don Corneil Here New BR Location! Our community lost a friend and great We are excited to announce that the supporter with the passing of Don Kinmount Gazette has moved Corneil. Don donated his time and downstream and is now available talents to 12 of the Annual Dinner/ Auctions helping to raise thousands of for pick-up outside of the Burnt dollars for Kinmount projects. River Library and Post Office. CORNEIL, Donald Charles ~ We‘d love to receive any news sto- Passed away suddenly with family ries and pictures from our neigh- by his side at the Regional Medical bours. Submissions can be for- Center Bayonet Point in Hudson warded to any Gazette staffer or Florida on Friday, January 9th, [email protected] 705-488-1349 2015 at the age of 73. Don was the beloved husband of Sheila Corneil (nee Murphy) of 49 years. Loving father of son Greg Corneil and wife Darlene Corneil, daughter Colleen Corneil. Cherished grand- father of Greer and Everitt Corneil.
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