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I believe that a tr''emendous amount of energy and research will be involved in the preparation of this "History of Snow Lake". I also feel that the rewards for those who have devoted their time to it will be forth' coming in the form of the great enjoyment which it will provide for all who are privileged to read it.

, The value of a history of any community is probably never real- ized more fully than in places where it has been neglected.

My congratulations are extended to all who have given so gener- ously of their time to this important project.

R. "Bud" Simpson, M.P., (Churchill Constituency)

While it is fitting in the Centennial Year of Canada's to review our first one Hundred Years of History it is equally desireable to assure those that follow after us, that we have passed bn a record of the history of New Canada as it is being made.

I wonder if readers will appreciate the work that has gone into this snow Lake project? Even thoufli the history of our modern-northern industrial townsites are short in numbers of years, Snow Lake is an ex- cellent.-example of a community's breakthrougli from isolation to integrat- ion with the rest of Manitoba.

Perhaps we can hope that the frustrations, challenges re. " - and war-ds of opening-canada's n-ew frontiers, may provide the nEcessary in- centives for all canadians to strengthen their"h6me ties, so that the Dom- inion of canada may be acknowledgid to be an even greater nation in the eyes of the rest of the world during 6ui next centennial one Hundred years.

Gordon Beard, M.L.A., (Churchill Constituency) ?$

Acknowledgements

The Snow Lake Centennial Committee wishes to thank the following without whose assistance publication of this booklet would not have been possible;

The Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Company Ltd.

The Northern Lights Harry Miles - Editor of the Northern Lights

Frank R. Green - Secretary Treasurer of Howe Sound Exploration Comp- any Ltd. 1948

Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe . and many old timers mentioned in the booklet for their generous use of pictures and other information.

C.W. (Cliff) Casselman - for his industry in gathering material for the book let.

Tim Che!! - originator of the imaginative design on the cover.

It has not been possible, in so short a time, to cover this period of our northern development as thoroughly as we would have preferred to do.

For that reason, many interesting stories and some names may have been omitted.

Any such omissions are entirely unintentional.

Our thanks, as well, to the advertisers, whose support is greatfully acknowledged.- l-e

Foreword

Because Snow Lake and it's surrounding district is still comparativ- ely young in development we are fortunate in having with us - in many of our early settlers - a living historir. It is to honor these wonderful people and to record their stories, before they are lost to us forever, that the Town of Snow Lake has decided to publish this booklet as one of their centennial projects.

In talking to our first citizens I have been singularly impressed wilh their courage and resourcefulness. They came north, singly oi in groups; enduring the bitter cold of winter and the insect infested muskegs in summ- er. Without union backing, medicare or pension plans they spread out ac- ross the land, cutting roads as they came. They cleared the portages and marked them with the familiar lobstick, a partially limbed treb trunk with its two remaining trranches pointing the way across the lake to the next portage.

Some of them came from far countries, often to die a lonely death in some northern lake. They came to search for wealth in the rocks; to fish or to trap and trade in fur.

Perhaps, most of all, they came because, as George Bartlett has said

"It's nice to be free."

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"I'm the oldest resident of the name) in an ill-fated attempt to district," is a statement that few raise silver foxes, which were wor will challenge, for George Bartlett th as high a eight hundred dollars has spent fifty-five years in the at that time. When the venture fai- area around Herb (Wekusko) and led the partners moved on to Lime- Reed Lakes. "Billy Todd and 'Doc' stone Point Lake where they traPP- |ftug were the first white men in ed and fished. the -district and I guess maybe I George served with the Fiftv- was the third". During those Years Second Division at Mons in 1918. George pursued a variety of occ- After his discharge he returned to upations. He built roads, traPPed his old camp at Mitishto Creek. He and traded in furs; freighted, fire tried fire rahging that summer; be- ranged, operated a stopping place, ween Cranberry Portage and Sett' a store and a fish camp. Now and ing Lake, by canoe and Paddle. then he prospected. There were no outboard motors at A veteran of the first world that time. war, Mr. Bartlett was born in Sou' The winter of 1919 he built a thern Quebec in 1894. He came to trading post on Loonhead Lake at Northern Manitoba in 1912. With tire entrance t0'the File River. The a friend CarI Auley, he struck out business collapsed when he came from the northern tip of Moose out in the spring with a great load Lake toward Limestone (now DYce) of fur, only to find that the bottom Lake, where he built a camp at the had dropped out of the market. mouth of Mitishto Creek. He traPP- Muskrat pelts bought at five dollars ed that area for two years. a. piece were worth only seventy- In 1914, he united with HenrY five cents. "That's the fur game," Morton (Morton's Lake bears his Bartlett savs. "The 'Skin Game' we

tlrs" Eartlett and Myrna in iheir qarden on Reed Lake. -s GEORGE BARTLETT _ mie - were married. Six children were born to the couple, Georgie, used to call it." Gerald, Russel, Myrna, Cookie and His next venture was a stopp- Maryieen. ing place at the south end of Herb The family suffered deep per- Lake. He fished and freighted for sonal loss when both little Mary- the Rex and Bingo mines on the leen and later, Gerald lost their east shore of the lake. But . . . lives in drowning accidents. Mrs. "Once you get the feel of Bartlett died of illness in 1963. fur, you never get over it." So he George now lives at Bartlett's decided to build another post on Landing on the west shore of Herb Reed L'rke and "go back at it ag- Lake, where he operates a fish ain. " camp, with the help of his stepson The business on Bartlett's Poi- Charlie. nt flourished for several years; un- But the country's changed. til the rdlroad to Flin Flon in 1929, 'You know we've roads all over and later the Line into Sherridon here. Sometimes I say to m.vseU. cut off most of his trade. So Bart' "You'd be better off if you moved lett was forced to move again, this right out of here - went to the edge time to the town of Herb Lake of the Barren Lands on the timber- where he bought a store from La- iine, maybe." mont and Davidson. "I think if I was younger; if I In 1931, George and Mrs. Er- \l'as as young today as I was then. nestine Stayback -- a widow with I wouldn't like this. I've an idea I three sons, Alex, Char{ie and Jim' rvouldn't, you know."

Bill & Morgoret English

BiIl English was born in Rex- While in the army, Bill learn- ton, New Brunswick in 1885. His ed not to volunteer. He did once; mother was one of the original under the impression he was vol- Scots to come to Cape Breton. In unteering to police camp. When it that part of the country you "dass- was too late to retreat he discover- n't hit a kid with a snowball. It ed he was up for latreen duty. might be a relative." After the war English decided In his youth he fravelled for he u'ould rather work for himself. Union Switch and Signal Co., a sub- He came to the Wekusko area in siduary of Westinghouse in the Un- 1920 to try prospecting. In partner- ited States, installing railroad swit- ship rvith Joe Kerr and Wilfred ches and signal lights. Vickers he trapped in the winter He went to Panama in 1911 to to grubstake their prospecting. place the switches for trains haul- Summers, they roamed the ing dirt from the Panama Canal, countrl' with a dip needle - the then under construction. He was only' instrument in use at that there when the first ship, a freigh- time -- to search out the ore-bear- ter, passed through the canal locks. ing rock. English fought with the 1st Chisel Lake property was fir- Canadian Tank Corps in the wal st staked by Bill English, Joe Kerr of 1914-18. Dick \\roosey and Johnny Kerr. j'They wouldn't accept me in Thel' dropped the clairns in 1927. In '14. Said I was too short. They wcre the sumnrer of '28 Bill prospected glad to get me in '17." at Cold Lake. He held the Stall .1(} Bill and Margaret English presen't site on Bill's old trapline - by the Snow Creek on the shoie of Snow Lake. Eric bought the house across the ice in two sections. Bill went into business a-gaia

with Snow Lake's first general store. There was no road into the ,town site so he delivered groceries to the Howe Sound Camp by canoe. Today, twenty years later, Bill and Margaret and their dog Perkie still keep store by the Snow Lake Highway.

Bill likes to reminisce of a time when doors were never locked; and visitors were welcome whether the owner was home or not. They might come in and cook a meal, or spend the night if they wished. Usually they left a note. Perhaps asking "If you couldn't put up better food," then r. ent away, leaving things as they found them.

Bill English in 1917. He has never been loneiy.

Lake property for some time be- "Some of the happiest days of fore a disagreement with the gov- my life were spent here, on an is- ernmeht caused him to release it. land in Herb Lake." Joe Kerr and Walter Johnson sta- ked it and sold their claims to the Hudscn Bay Mining & Smelting Co. He worked for Ventures on a test mill at Flin Flon before that mine was taken over by the HBM&S. English never enjoyed trapp- ing and in 1934 he gavrit up and opened a store near the town of Herb Lake. Mrs. English, who had been living and working as an acc- cuntant in Seattle, Washington, came north in the late thirties to join her husband.

Margaret English is rememb- ered for her kindnesses to many a trapper and prospector, whose clo- thes she mended and washed. She also taught piano to the children of Herb Lake. Bill and Margaret English in front In 1947 the English'hired Eric of their siore on the Snow Lake Stolz to move their home to it's Highway. The Bryentons

There's a iinl' li'riie rabin built of af iogs anc roofed with moss, B;-' a creek '"hat winds and ripples past the door. There's a tearn of husky sleigh dogs and a sleigh that's worn and weathered. And a hundred miles of trapline, ves and more. by Ralph Bryenton

Ralph Bryenton discovered ti'hat he wanted early in life and ner-er changed his mind. "I had a notion I'd like to be a tr:pper." is the way he explains Ii Born in Charlottetown. P.E.I. Bflptt Bryenton at Herb Bay in in 1905, Ralph came west with his t938. f amiiy the following year to a homestead near North Cooking Lake in Alberta. He was seventeen years old when he and his brother, Wendell, (eighteen) Ioaded their provisions -- Iess than ninety dollars trought their groceries that first winter - some second hand traps. and four stray dogs they had picked ,rp in Edmonton, onto a raJt; pitched a tent over the whole and floated dou'n the Athabasca River to the place u'here they irrtended to trap. For Ralph. it was the first of forty five ri'lnters spent on the trapline. In the fal} of 1927 Wendell came to the Herb (Wekusko) Lake area bv u-av of Flin Fion. Ralph joinecl hinr in 1930. In August of that year he slipp- ed his fourteen foot canoe into the \orth Saskatcherr,,an River at Ed- monton and followed it's winding course east to The Pas; a journey of some 800 miles. Being a resour- ceful man, he lived off the country; shooting deer and trading the meat Wendell Bryenton in Loon Skin to ferry'men along the way for veg- Jackei. etables, butter and eggs. The jour. ney took twenty one days. -12- THE BRYENTONS _ The brothers took out 1200 r'ats the following spring and sold them for sixty-seven cents a piece. There were no registered traplines at that time although a gentlemen's agree- ment to respect one another's terr- itory existed among the trappers. It was seldom broken. In 1939 Bryenton built a home on an island in Herb Bay and brou- ght liis wife DIable and family from Calmer, AIta., to Herb Lake. Mrs. Bryenton had three children of a former marriage -- Mrs. Dorothy \Mestlin; iVlrs. Lorna Stonehouse; and Roy Ogden. The couple have a daughter Mrs. Doris Jacobson. Ralph operated a small theatre Mable and Ratph Bryenton in 1966 in Herb Lake for many years and at Mountains. that time began a series of films Wendell left Herb Lake in on life in the north. His film, The 1944. He now owns a small heating Fur Trapper Of The North, is in business in Edmonton. the Encyclopedia Britannica film In 1961 the Bryentons left their library in Chicago. island home and the dwindling Prospecting was one summer town of Herb Lake to move onto occupation. He staked the property the trapline. There in the winter that is now Osborne Lake Mine and they divide their time between two later dropped it. Three summers camps. Although they are modern were spent on field trips with Dr. trappers with a power tobaggon and Erling Porsild, Canada's National two-way radios, Ralph still uses a Botonist; Curator of the National dog team on his line. Museum of Canada (now retired). Now they travel in the summ- In 1947 they travelled dorvn the ers and make their headquarters at McKenzie River to the Arctic coast, their home near Fort -Saskatche over the Eskimo Lakes; and worked wan in Alherta. Thev plan to live in the Reindeer round-up at Akla- there one day, in retirement. close vik. Other summers - once witir to their family. But not for a few Mable and Doris along - were spent years with Dr. Porsild studving and coll- "No", Ralph says. "My snow' ecting wild flowers in the Rocky shoes aren't worn out yet."

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I Jack hauting corduroy on Wekusko Road. Murphy with Newfoundland dog. The siga at the turnoff says Herb Landing, but most of the peo- ple who live on that part of Wek- usko's shore call it "South End." They are all prospectors and fishermen, with the exception of Jack Patton, who is a diamond drill- er, and most of them have lived in the settlement of Herb Lake at one time or another. Herb Landing is the end of the portage over which the old time freighters carried supplies from Wekusko Station. From there thev rvere transferred onto boats or bai- ges for the final jaunt across the lake to the gold camp at Herb Lake. Even conceivable commodity rvent over that route; even cars. The_r' u-ere fastened to a platform made of pianks, and placed across tu'o boats running parallel to one another, The passage had to be rnade at a time when the lake was dead caim. At one time a telephone line connected the town of Herb Lake with the station at Wekusko. Now it's just a small party line between Mile El, now Wekusko, in lg2g the neighbours at South End. - l,+ The Cotes' Jqck Pofton Wilfred Cote was born on a "I'm a Johnny-comeJately to farm in southern Saskatchewan in these parts," says Jack Patton since 1904. He began fishing on Lake he only came to the Wekusko area Winnipegosis when he rvas fifteen in 7944. But Jack has covered a and came to the Wekusko area in Iot of territory in his eighty-three 1923. years. In the early years he fished A veteran of both world wars and freighted - first with horses, he vzas born in Coleraine, Ireland then with tractors and bombardiers. in 1BB4 and came to Canada when He carried the mail to Herb Lake he was sixteen years of age. for some years. Now retired, he has pursued In 1928 Wilfred and Bertha his trade in the far corners of the Ducharme were married.During world. He diamond drilled for Can- the thirties they ran a stopping adian Nickle at Ferguson Lake, 400 place at South End. miles north of Churchill; drilled The couple have five children: for Sherritt Gordon in the perma- Clare, Gertrude, Margaret, Wilfred frost at Rankin Inlet in 1931 (the and Eugene. The family lived in first time that part of the country Herb Lake while the children were was ever drilled) and in Sumatra, young, to enable them to attend on property belonging to the Dutch school. Royal family. He drilled in the tin Now the Cote's live alone in mines of Siam and just escaped a- their home at South End. Wilfred head of the Japanesl i, ttre second confines his activities to fishing, u'or'1d r,r'ar. which he prefers to freighting. Patton diamond drilled for "You never see a fisherman with a Howe Sound at Snow Lake and for' frozen face." Jack Nut'" at Tungcld. Hc r"'as drill- ing through the perma-frost up in the Barlen Lands n'hen he was The Cormons' seventy-three years of age. In his Mr. and Mrs. Alberi Corman youth the diamonds were set in the came to Herb Lake in 1935. Albert drills b1' the drillers themselves. worked in the Laguna Mine while Alwavs a bachelor, Jack lives it was still in operation. His bro- alone in his little house at South ther Arthur came with him. End. Everl' morning at nine o'clock Fishermen now, the_v- sperrd he picks up his phone and calls the part of their' tirne rrr The Pas i-rul Cote's to Iet them know "every' still keep a home at Souttr End. thing's fine with him." The Troppers Some of ihe old time trappers Slim'Rooch Roger werer Carriere who used to Slim Roach was one Herb Lake trap along the Grassy River. One old timer rvho grew a good garden. of the best 'rat trappers in the He had a root cellar to keeP his country. Bill Kerr, Joe McDougal, potatces in but couldn't see the nec- Ed. Farley and Pete Johnson all essity for a house. So, he just sPr- trapped around Elbow Lake. Bob ead his bertroll on top of the Pot- Nicholson also trapped along the atoes and there he slept. Grassy. Old Mr. Falster took out the biggest days catch of 'rats ever caught in this area. One hundred and twenty-five rats in one day. a - loF Joe Kerr

Joe Kerr is one prospector who made good. properties Kerr was born at Dauphin The list of Lake in 1894 and came to this part he has had a hand in discovering of the couirtry in 1919. He his a reads like the Financial page a in comfortable home at South End. daily newspaper. Mystery Lake, but does prospecting. nickle; Thompson, nickle; Lake still a little Stall The received copper-zinc; and Pipe Lake, nickle. J-K Syndicate $750,000 for Mystery Lake-Thomp- All of these properties belonged to gon property. Stall Lake-brought the J-K Syndicate which Joe shared anyone with Walter Johnson, partner $225,000. If is interested, his Joe is still a bachelor. But he claims from 1936 until Wa1ter's death some he can run "pretty fast". years ago.

Wolter Johnson

"Walter Johnson was an ex- ceptional fellow," so says BiIi Eng- lish. He had a trapline up in the Mystery Lake-Thompson area and although he thought little of its mineral prospects. he trapped there every wintel to earn enough mon- ey to finance summer prospecting in the Wekusko area. He never be- came discouraged. "We'll make her yet," he'd say. His confidence was not misplaced. Born in Iceland in 1881, he or- iginally came to Herb Lake to work in the Bingo Mine. His first partner was an Australian named Dick Ellis "a ladies man." Later, he formed the J-K Syndicate with Joe Kerr. Johnson was a veteran 0f the first world war. He lived only a few years after the nickle find at Tho- mpson. Mrs. Johnson still lives in Flin Flon.

The McReqs'

Mr. and Mrs. Ebert McRae were caretakers at the Faro mine for several years. ?heir daughter, Vickie, used to nurse in Snow Lake hospital. After they left Andy patt- erson was caretaker until his death. Walter Johnson -1&

The Kobqrs

Bill Kobar is another prospec- Manitoba and, with his brother tor who lives at South End, when Pete, Charlie Nelson and Bart Ko- he's not "away with his pack on bar staked Osborne Lake Mine his shoulder." He lvas born in Yug- which they later sold to the H.B. oslavia and came to this country in M.&S. L927. Bill is a good natured fellow Bill has staked many worth- who is still looking for more "wea. while properties about northern Ith in the rocks."

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(Story starts on page 14) a -17- HERB LAKE. GOLD CAMP In 1914 four prospectors- cro- four inches long. The next morning ssed the twelve mile portage from the prospectors set off in the can- Hargrave Lake to the south end of oe. Percy could hear them from Herb (Wekusko) Lake. The men car- the island -- staking. That night he ried heavy packs over the difficult sneaked over with a tape and mea- trail, where in places it was nec- zured some of the claims; found a essary to sidle across bridges con- fraction they'd missed and staked sisting of two wet, slippery poles. it. It was later called the McDavitt One misstep and the unfortunate tr'raction. person might find himself up to Percy sold his fraction for a his neck in muskeg. few thousand dollars and bought a The names of the prospectors farm with the proceeds. were: Mike Hackett; Bob Hasitt; The &ex Mine opened in -19J?- Julius Carnpbell and Frank Moore. and produced 7,000 ounces of gold They were the original stakers of before in closed down in 1925. Re- the gold discovery that later be- named the !.aguna Gold llines it came the Rex Mine on the east was put into -production again in shore of the lake where the hamlet 1934. and from then until its final of Herb Lake was formed. Ciosing in 1939 - 48,000 ounces of Few people know that the pro- gold were produced. T\vo other pertS' was actuaily discovered bv gold properties in the area were Percy McDavitt, a fellou' the n,en r.rot so profitable. brought along to chore around \\'ork began on the Bingo their island camp. He found the ]Iine in the early !q2!ls under the vein while exploring the shcre direction of Don Kennedv. The fir- with a canoe and picked up some st fifty feet was sunk ivith hand samples. Bob Hasitt panned them steel while two men struck it al- and got a tail of gold in the pan ternately. The clang of their ham-

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HERB LAKE . GOLD CAMP _ mers rang out with the regularity every summer, and the Bryentons of the ticking of a clock. There island home at the end gold visit their was in the*Bjlgq; but the quan- of each season's trapping. ity was insufficient to make min- OTHER OLD TIMERS WERE- ing it feasible. There is a story the Harry Robert's family. He was that gold was added to sample bags a veteran of the first world war. from the Bingo and that many un- Tom Fo,rrest who built the first suspecting people were gulled into building in the settlement; Mrs. buying the worthless stock. Molly Mclntosh, who came from .The*Fa-ro, a small mine three Saskatoon with her daughters, Em- miles e,ast of the settlement, open- ily and Mary to open a small store. ed shortly after the Laguna closed She is known for her paintings and and stayed in production until 1943. pen sketches of the north. Mr. and Charlie Morgan had a little mill Mrs. Sam Hagberg; he was foreman there. He employed six or eight on the railroad. She used to read men and produced several hundred teacups. Hugh Vickers, Magi,stlzfg' tons of ore. Everyone called him Judge Vickers. Herb I-ake is a ghost town Ben Maxwell "pushed some little now. The houses stand empty with shacks together and called it a ho- furniture and discarded clothing just tel, and got a beer parlor." Mrs. as their occupants left them. Belle Guys (Aunt Belle) kept a boa- Thees grow in the middle of the rding house in the early davs be- walks and moose roam through the fore Herb Lake was a hamlet. strcet. But at one time eight hun- dred people lived there.*N6fr-lltilt- Roy Grey drove the town's ie Roberts is the only permanent only taxi, a model A panel tmck. resident. He is a trapper and fish- He never refused to go anywhere, erman. James Barton, a prospector at anv tirne; winter or summer. Bill who survived fifty-four days with- Marshatl kept a blacksmith shpp. out solid food, in the Arctic the and Julius Campbell was a well fall of '66 still keeps his home near known prospector after whom an Herb Lake. Rov Leslie comes back island is named.

Gcorge Bartlett buying fur from Ralph Bryenlon. Herb lwekutlko) loke Readers will have noticed that Cann used an old wheel for an in telling this story of our part of anchor. Originally he had had a Manitoba, we keep co'ming back to proper one, but -- so the story goes the Lake - Wekusko (Clee express- - one day he ordered his crew to ion, meaning Herb). In the beginn- "Drop Anchor!" The crew, know- ing it formed an entry into the ing that the anchor wasn't attached gold find, and later the town of to the boat, hesitated. Herb Lake. Food, men and mater- "When I say, 'Drop Anchor"' ials, ali came first across the lake; roared Cann, "you drop it!" And by boat in summer; in winter hor. this time the crew obeyed. ses and later Lynn Tractors hauled supplies across the ice. Dan McDonald ran a boat on George Bartlett freighted on I{erb Lake. William and Mary Hale Ralph kept a Stopping Place at the south Wekusko Lake and so did pros- Bryenton. Bill English had his cab- end. Mary was an industrious in on an island; Pete Durand a pector and ttre best poker piayer Swiss, was freighting there rvhen in the country, at least she could his boat caught fire from spilled run a good bluff. gasoline. He was forced to make a The Ducharmes built their hasty escape in a canoe. home on Sandy Bay in 1920. Du- George Cann used to carr)- charme had a contract to supply freight and passengers in a fortl' cordu'ood for the Rex and Bingo foot steam boat which he fired ttith mines. IIrs. Ducharme, now Mis. wood. If he ran out of fuel. as he Cecilia Rivard lives in The pas. did on rnore than one occasion, he Joe Rainville freighted across burned benches and anvthing else the portage between the lake and that could be removed from the the siation at iiiile 81. LIrs. Rain. boat. It was an impressive sight to ville kept a boarding house at Wek- see him coming up the lake with usko for many yelrs and is still sparks ftying from the smoke sta- living -there. Mr. Rainville passed ck. away May, 1967.

PeIe Durand with his freight boat. -zJ- HER,B (WEKUSKO} LAKE _ Sophie May Ryan, the Diamond in that time forty people.have died Queen, ran a Stopping Place at Mile in drowning acciden,ti. 82 on the railroad. One story has THEY DIED ON OTHER LAKES it that the Queen used to be a dance TOO - Archie McCorquadale came hall girl in the African diamond from Scotland to lie in a lonely gra- fields and that the miners threw ve on the shore of Vicker's Lake, diamonds on the stage when she where he lost his life. A man named danced. She was believed to have Murphy drowed on File Lake. Wil- been a close friend of Barney Ber- fred Vickers died on the Nelson nato, known as the Diamond King; River. Jack Demery died on File hence the name Diamond Queen. Lake. He is buried on Four Mile Portage next to Gilty Gislason's Many Lives Were Lost In Wek- little daughter. Billy Todd, the first usko Lake Wilfred Cote has fish- white man in the district, drowned ed the lake- for over forty years and in the Grassy River.

Kqthleen Rice

The story of Kathleen Rice is anized and trained the first Wo worthy of note, if only because she men's Army Corps in the war of chose a way of life that few wo- 1939 - 45. men would have attempted alone. Miss Rice - described as a nat- She was born in St. Mary's,-Loyalist Ont- ural blonde, lall and stately - re- ar{o in 1883 of Empire ceived her Bachelor of Arts degree qtock. Her father, HEnry Lincoln from the University of Toronto in Rice, owned a milling company. Her 1906. She also won the Wm. Blake brother, Lt. Col. C.D.t. Rice", org- scholarship in honour mathematics. Her marriage had been planned but the death of the fiancee precluded that. After graduation she taught high school in Ontario and later in Yorkton, Saskatchewan. In 1913 she filed on a home- stead at The Pas, Manitoba and from there eventually made her way north into the Wekusko area. Miss Rice travelled about the country .. trapping, prospecting and studying the witd life - by dog team in the winter; by canoe !n summer. When she came to a tou- gh portage with her canoe, she would sit down and wait for a m,an to come along to carry it across. She staked several different properties, and with her partner, Richard (Dick) Woosey, filed claim Miss Kalhleen Rice B.A. on conyo to the valuable, nickle bearing Rice- cation day at the University of Tor, Woosey Istrand in Wekusko Lake. onto. (Contlnued oa Page 20) -21- KATHLEEN RICE- Miss Rice returned east for a short The partners are said to have time before coming back to the is- I refused $250,000 in cash and shares land where she lived alone for al- for the property in the belief it most twenty years. During those I was worth much more. They were years she studied and wrote a thesis still holding out when Dick Woosey on the Aurora Borealis as well as I dide penniless in 1941. fire prop- many other articles which were erty was eventually sold and now published. belongs to International Nickle. It Finally her health broke under is believed that Miss Rice received the crushing loneliness that became $23,000 for her share of the prop- too much, even for this strong per- ertv. sonality. She died in hospital in " After the death of her partner Brandon in 1964.

The Prospectors

Away to the shores of Wekusko. away from all civilized signs, I went with my pack on my shoulders: away to the northern mines. The rocks and the muskegs allured me: my body and soul had been Sold For a craving that never will leave me; a mad, insane pass(on for gold. by W.R. (Hendy) HENDERSON, Many old timers wjll remember (Ikndv) HEAIDERSON, the nortlrern poet who was postmaster of F.lin Flon, Manitoba in the eariy thirties.

Gold ls Discoverd On Snow Loke

Although recorils show a geo- ed for repellent. logical survey party visited the In 1934 the three Parres', al- Snow Lake area in 1896 and again ong with several other students in 1913, the original cllims were from the University of Saskatche- staked by C.R. (Chris) Parres in wan, travelled down the Saskatche- L927. wan River to FIin Flon and Beaver A Lewis (Lew) Parres remem- Lake. There, Chris left them to re- bers working the claims with his turn to Saskatoon while the stud- father and Erother, Jim, in 1929. ents went on to Snow Lake by way The usual route to Snow Lake at of a chain of lakes, rivers and port- that time was by waY of Herb Lake ages. Those making the trip were; and up the Snow Creek. There were Dr. W.G. Robinson; Waldo Clarke; five iortages, all swarming with Russ Garnett; Earl Crull; Jim Scott; blackilies and mosquitoes, and OFF Mel Thompson; Charles Donald; Jim had not been invented as Yet. BY and Lew Parres. The object was to the time they arrived where Eng- nan for gold. lish's store is todaY the men were well colored from the black, s'tickY Their cabin was loeated on the mixture of pine tar mixed with cit- north shore of Snow Lake, close to renella and-olive oil which they us- the present situation of the pump -22-

@TO IS DISCOVERED ON seperate the gold from the gossan." SNOW LAKE_ "The gold was caught on ap- rons and riffle-boards covered with a Hudson Bay blanket and finally panned in the old fashioned mann- er with a frying pan. It was then edged out of the pan with an eye dropper and into a mustard jar." After much hard work - shov- i elling, pushing, digging and rock- ing - the jar was almost filled with : several ounces of gold. The boys :.ia made the mistake of stortng it un- der the roots of a iarge spruce tree near the lake shore. A great wave rolling in ahead of a sudden rvind storm, carried the jar back to the lake and deposited it into twenty feet of water. Hours and days were spent in diving to recover it but to no avail. If any one wants a mustard jar filled with gold, it's still there wait- ing for them; at the bottom of Snow Lake.

In 1938 three Saskatchewan geologists went back to Snow Lake to map and stake more claims. Canoe damaged by bear - 1938 They were Eric Swanson, Barney Clare and Lew Parres. At that time house (where, incidentally, the boys Nor Acme Mines was incorporated used to swim in the nude). It was to handle the property. Finally in the only inhabited cabin in the area 1940, Frank Ebutt optioned Nor for many years. Chris Parres was Acme for Howe Sound on a royalty an ardent gardener and always had basis. a good supply of carrots, onions and radishes. _ T,ater, Britannia Mining and Lew describes panning gold Smelting Co., a subsiduary ofHowc from the red, rusty gossarthat ov- Sound took over manageilent. erlay the orebody. "We had cut down large spr- Other early prospectors in the uce trees and adzed one side so area were Gaspar Richards; Ben that small spruce saplings could Maxwell; Jack Nutt. Another Un- be nailed securely to provide a rail iversity of Saskatchewan graduate for the flanged wheels of the goss- who played an important part in an carts. The large spruce were the development of Snow Lake iri laid end to end and parrallel in 7947-48 was Jeff Caverly, now with pairs to make a track from the Gardiner Denver Co. grizzley-rockers at the lake shore up the hill to the gossan. Other old-timers were Eric "fiiis gossan contained gold Swanson, Leo Rutherford, Andy rvhich oxidation had freed from the Patterson, Charlie Olsen and Char- original ore and putting it through lie Brinder. grizzly-rockers, And of course, Tom the and hundred Lamb was there with his planes, pounds at a time, we were able to flving the sky routes. -2r- rfig *_-*t I i{ {& '3 .'{ \ 1 -.k.!t \ ryr;:4

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Snow Lqke Under Howe Sound Explorotion Co. Ltd.

Diamond drilling began on the T. barge and transported to Berry propertv in 1941 and was comple- Bay, and thence to Snow Lake by ted in 1942. As a result of the dri- road, a distance of six miles. lling, a large low grade ore body That Year The Hudson Bay Opened was outlined. Due to World War Their First Store Two, work on the property was dis- A tent camp was set up for the continued until 1945 when active early families west of the present development commenc-ed. H. H, townsite. where the ball park is Sharp was president and G.C. Lip- today. The tents had board floors sey became manager of the comp- and walls with 12' x 14' tents on any. top. It was dubbed Tent Town and The first load of freight was Terry Polec remembers that alth- hauled into camp in 1946 by Trans- ough some of the luckier residents port Ltd. with tractor train. Drag- had windows, she had none. Water Iine operation started on Wekusko was piped from the lake with taps highway at Anderson Bay that placed at intervals and most of the same year. During 1946 and 1947 heating was electrical, since the freight was delivered by tractor and :ost was one dollar a month regard- sleigh in the winter and during the less of how many kilowatts were summer by a combination of truck lsed. and barge. In the late summer of The Company erected a row 1946 and 194? trucks were loaded of cabins along the lake shore at Wekusko, hauled ll miles to ealled Cabin Town by the more Wekusko Lake. driven on to a L.C. fortunate people who lived there. '''l

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;",, . ?tb )xt .,-. . ,r . Lew Parres and Eric Swanson on Portage between Lew Parres on his way to Snow Lake Anderson Lake and Snow Lake - 1938 -2* Snow Lake Under Howe Sound Exploration Co. Lfd. Gambling was a favorite rec- into town on a payday. So short reation among the men and the co- (only 4' 10") it was necessary to 'npqny was tolerant enough to pro- itand on a powder box to reach the iride a special roonr for that sport 'uable, but he was $1000 richer when rn the dormitories. Poker and crap he left town on the next day's pla- ,vere the usual games. Money was rle, rften stacked high on the tables Snow Lake - Gold Town and one man was known to have The Townsite at Snow Lake won $1500 on one roll of the dice. vas organized under the Industrial The same man left town six weeks Townsites Act of Manitoba. In June later rvith $7,000, a lot of morrey in of 1947, the Local Government Dis- ihose days. One small fellow flew trict of Snow Lake was formed. SNOW LAKE ON THE MUD

In ltlorthern Manitoba where the;- blast the rocks for gold, There's a camp that's ful1 of miners - or so the tal;is dold; They are tough and hairy Canucks and mucking's in their blood And they call the place thel' u-ork in "Snow Lake on the Mud."

It's not the usual kind of mud that dries up in the sun, It's mud that cakes your boots and makes them weight a ton; It swallows rocks and pine trees - and children too they say, For kiddies drown in mud holes, say two or three a day.

It's squeezy mud, it's greasy mud, it slithers and it slops, And no matter how high your boots are, it'll get in through the tops; It squelches to the lakeside and it suffocates the fish, And oozes through the cookhouse roof and gets in every dish.

It bubbles neath the sidewalks, it slushes through the door, And gurgles like ffi eerie spcok beneath the bunkhouse floors; You'Il find it in your finger nails and gooing up your toes, And dripping from your ears and mouth and stopping up your nose.

It's mud that there's no name for, it's unspeakable, it's vile, It's only fit for water snakes or slimy crocodiles; So when you think of heroes who for country and their blood, Just spare a thought for miners in "Snow Lake on the Mud."

by CHARLIE REID of the office staff. As the above tittle lament tells Rubber boots were the "In" thing us, mud was everywhere on the to wear. Dances were held in th6 new townsite of snow Lake. The cook house and the ladies used to gummy, yellow clay attached itself arrive in high rubber boots with to everything and iefused to let go. their modish- party gowns raised

-.4 -26- Snow Lake Under Howe Sound Exploration Co" Ltd. high above the slippery mire. rnining communitv, to service all Some of those old-timers who Howe Sound buildings and houses, are still about today are; Cliff and and an additicnal 25 lots in the Lillian Casselman; James and Lou- resiflcnfi"t 1."r. ise Gowans; Charles and Naomi Snow Lake's Post Office Ooen- Vance; Yvan and Therese Polec; 9d September lst, I948. Dugald William and Lillian Kennedy; Will- Drummond was the first Postmast- iam and Mary Semaniuk; Gerald er. Cliff Casselman, present Post- and Irene Benoit; George and Vio- master took over October lst, 1950. let Wood; Mrs. Dorothy Spillett and Norlhern Lights Club was or- Mrs. Marie Kerr; Helen and Alex ganized in February. 1948, with Michalik; Ann and William Maru;- Mrs. F.L. Green as president. Mrs. zchak; Helena and Stan Tomcow- Gleen was also director of the rvicz; Ann and Nick Tchezowski; ilrama CIub. Their first public nro- Helen and Louis Tabin; Rosie and duction in the new Communitv Hali Willie Holunga; Ann and Ignace ivas in June, 1950 - a comedv "NIo Gorowski; Helena and Stan Rodzie- Cure. No Pav." wicz; Doris and John Salahub and Firsf Bullion Was Poured Ap- Norman Leslie. ril 22nd, 1949. With rvork well along toward getting the rnine established and The Howe Sound Operation into production, attention was giv- The Hou'e Sound Operation at en to plans for construction rvork Snow Lake ran for about nine years in the torvnsite. An eight bed hosp- During that period, sonte five and ital, a four room school. and houses one half nrillion tcns of ore \\'ere for mine personnel plus another milled to produce gold, mainly, and five 6-room houses. ten 4-roonr hou- some silver, but in 1958 the orebodv ses and twelve 4-room duplex' rvere u'as depletecl and the little rninin"g built. town was faced with extinction. Water and sewage installations Horvever, unknorvn to the residents also were planned for rvhat rvas of the community, other plans were then Northern Manitoba's nervest being formulated for the district.

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Ross Kennedy in front of first Snow Lake P.O. and coffee shop. Dick Jordon ran the coffee shop. Dugald was Foslmasler.

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Early Snow Lake ball team. Their names not in order - Cliff Casselman, Nick Holunga, Tom Kitcher, Hugh Hanreider, iEon Shanks, Victor Monette Bruce Biluli, Roy Curl, Murray Kennedy, Frank Millen and Bill Barker. -29- no one to meet her so the bus dri- The Prefontqines' ver, George Duncan, escorted her to the cabin where she was to stay, with Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Olsen. Later, Mrs. Prefontaine ran a boarding house. She had seven boa- rders, on different shifts, and had a "whale of a good time. They were all good boys," she says. "They liked their beer and always gave me their empties for piq money. I bought the drapes for my boarding house out of that." The couple had nine children; Henrietta, Blanche, Eugene, Ry- croft, Denise, Paul, Morris and Lou- ie of Snow Lake. Their son Her- man in s. was accidently drowned :. Snow Lake in 1954. Mr. and Mrs. Prefontaine were the first corrole to celebrate their golden rvedding in Snow Lake (in 1964). Tonv suffered a stroke in 1963 from rvhich he never fully recover- ed. He passed away April 15, 1967, at the age of 77 vears. Tony Prefonlaine - Mrs. Prefontaine still resides First day at l{owe Sound in Snorv Lake rvith her son Louie.

Tony Prefontaine rvas born in St. Eustace. Manitoba, in 1890. i{e came to Snow Lake in 1949 to foll- ow his tlade, blacksitiithing, f ol Britannia Nlines. He staved in the H-shaped bunkhouse in'ient Tou,n. The building had floors and iower walls of plywood; the top was rnade of canvas. It rvas heated bv wood burning stoves and a buli ccok came around every few hours to fire up. His hourly rate was 91.46. There was no hospitalization, no ov- ertime; no statuatory holidays and no union. In case of serious illness patients were sent to The Pas. But Tony was a tough man. So tough, that at one time he work- ed for a day and a half with a fra- ctured hip. Mrs. Prefontaine came to Snow Lake in 1950, arriving by bus from Mr. & Mrs. Annthony Prefonlaine at Wekusko at 4:00 A.M. There was their golden wedding anniversarY -30-

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Carl and Johanna Stolz came Rex mine closed the family moved to Clnada from Sweden in 1914. to the settl,ement of llerb Lake. Their first home was in Big River, There were four boys in the fam- Saskatchewan, where they lived for ily; Pete, Albert, Louis and Eric, many years. all of wirom live in the Snow Lake In 1924 they moved to the east district. Of the two girls, Ann ljves shore of Wekusko Lake where Joh- in Winnipeg and Ida in Lynn Lake. 3nna kept a boarding house and Mrs. Stoiz passed arvay in 1958 Carl fished on the lake. When the followed by Mr. Stolz in 1965.

The Vdnces' Charlie Vance is best remem- He became interested in coll- bered around Snow Lake as a bus- ecting rocks and semi-precious inessman, but at one time he tra- stones and is a competent lapidist. nnn.l DhrI nrncnaafnrl .+ \{r'ctnrv Prvs erru r/^ vJr!!!vu Charlie and Naomi have two Lake with Walter Johnson. He bou- children; Brian and Linda. Now re- ght a store in llerb Lake and trad- tired, the couple live in Chillirvack ed in furs for a few years before B.C. but return everY summer to building his own store in Snow South End. Lake

STEETGAS (Munirohu) LTD.

GAS HEATING 0ilr10t3 EXPERTS

CONGRATUTAIIONS ON CANADA,S T OOrh BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS 1867 -'t967 C. EVANS - /VIANAGER !

-33- Snow Lqke -'Bqse Metql Town

While the people of Snow Lake and the townsite buildings and ser- were preparing themselves for ev- vices. acuation from what appeared to be Buildings purchased included a dying community, the Hudson Bay several duplex and single dwellings Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd. had the Community Hall, the original been quietly exploring the surroun- school building, the Curling Rink ding country; staking claims and and the hospital. picking up options on other copper Ttre mijority of tlie dwellings zinc bearing properties. were sold to the IIBM&S employ- In 1958, an agreement was ees; the school building, Commun- finalized by whieh the Company ity Hall and Curling Rink were do- would purchase a number of Howe nated to the Irocal Government rt Sound Mining Company assets. Am- Distric't of Snow Lake, as were the a ong major items acquired were the sewer and water facilities. fite hos- power transmission line to Snow pital, ownership of which was re- a Lake, sur{ace mining plant build- tained by the Company, was imp- inss and eguipment at Snow Lake roved and modernized where nec-

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Snow Lake - Base Metal Town essary and now is operated by the completed the winter of 1966 - 67 Employees' Health Association un- with accomodations for the equiv- der a rental agreement. alent of twentv classrooms. In add- In 1959, an agreement was fin- itin it has a large, well equipped alized with the Manitoba Govern- gymnasium, two labs, and a lib- ment and the Local District of rary. Snow Lake with respect to the op- eration of the townsite. A resident Six copper-zinc properties, Administrator is appointed by the owned by the company. are strewn Manitoba Government and a seven about the outlying district. T\,vo of nrati Advisory Board eler:ted by the them Chisel Lake and Stall Lake ratepayers. Mines are now in produc"tion. Other To date, the HBM&S has arran- properties Osborne Lake, Ghost ged for the construction of 135 new Lake, Anderson Lake and the new modern houses which are being Dickstone-Copper Mines -- are in sold to the employees at cost. on various stages of development. terrns of 10 per cent down and the With an abundance of wealth baiance on a monthly basis over 15 in the ground, and surrounded by years, interest free. The new Arena the natural beauty of Manitoba's was built by volunteer labor from Northland Snow Lake has every materials furnished by the Comp- reason to look forward to a bright any. and prosperious future. In 1954 Snow Lake had a pop- And so it seems fitting, in this ulation of 654. As of the latest cen- centennial year, that we pay trib- sus it now stands at 1385. ute to cur early pioneers, who came A modern, new school was before and blazed the trail.

For the friendships up north are real friendships, And the men are real men; young or old, Who pick up the true Christian spirit, While they are prospecting for gold.

by W.R. (Hendy) HENDERSON,

GOOD IUCK SNOW IAKE

YOUR CENTENNIAT PROJECT

THE FRIENDTY GIANT DRIVE.INN

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A CENTENNiOI CONGRATUTATION TO THE TOWII OF SNt)W LAKE FROM

May all your Centennial endeavours be a huge success this year -and the years tocomu' *o* .RANE . pRop.

IN THIS CAT.TADA'S CENTENNIAL YEAR We are proud to be part of a community which has shown such rapid progress. It is our sincere hope that progress will continue in the years ahead. NOTO!{ :i ilEINZ INSURANCT AGENCY Gordon Doak - Agent - Snow Lake

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CONGRATUTATIONS SNOW IAKE CENTEI{NIAL COMMIITEE

ON YOUR PUBLICATION OF THIS BOOKLET WHICH WILL BE READ AND ENJOYED BY MANY PEOPLE IN THIS OUR CENTENNIAL YEAR AND THE YEARS TO COME.

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CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS CENTENNIAL BOOKTET CONTAINING THE PAST HISTORY OF SNOW IAKE

CANADA 1867 - 1957 SilOW I.AKE fi,IEAT, GROCERY AND COFIEE SHOP WISH SUCCESS TO SNOW LAKE'S CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS AND FOR T}IE YEARS TO COME Itelen qnd Roy Boird

SU(CESSFUI CENTENNIAT YEAR 1967

AND MORE SUCCESS IN THE SECOND CENTURY OF OUR WONDERFUL CANADA.

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Proud We Stand In This Country To Celebfate Our 100th Anniversary To Our Communitys Pride and Integrity Of Hopes Of Expansion And Prosperity So We Take Ttris Memorial Opportunity To Offer Our Developing Mining Community Our Sincere Hopes And Wishes Of Prosperity DAOUST CIOT1IING CE}ITRE Prop. Joc Daoust Business Phone 358'2431 R.esidencc 358-2515

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CONGRATUTATIONS

CENTEIII NIAI. COilIilIITTtE

youR oN PRQJECT rN TH|S OUR r Ooth YEAR OF CONFEDERATION

From Your ITUIPERIAT OIt AGENT Murray D. Milne '?lways Look To lmperial For The Berf, -rtG

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The scenic beauty of the lakeshore community, strategically located midway between Flin Flon The Pas and Thompson, makes it the most attractive com- munity in Northern Manitoba.

Recreational opportunities in both summer and winter, the picturesque scenery of the surrounding countryside, and fishing and hunting all add up t0 something for every- one, no matter_ when you visit.

Community events such as the Kinsmen Carnival, Canada Day Celebrations and the lnternational Canoe Begatta, add a varied theme to summer activities.

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