Claybelt Chronicles ~ Volume 1
In 2006, we started interviewing our Temiskaming seniors to capture their stories and help keep the history of the area alive with as many first-hand accounts as possible.
Volume ONE was very successfully launched Nov 26th, 2009
If you would like to order one, download this PDF form and mail it in with payment, or call a Museum director at 647-7200 or 647-5424 to get your copy. They are also available at Highway Book Shop, Highway 11, Cobalt and Chat Noir, 57 Whitewood Avenue, New Liskeard, now, and will be at the Museum's Gift Shop when we open in May 2010. At that time Volume Two will also be available. [Click here for special pre-order form valid until April 30, 2010.]
Go here for the INDEX to this volume.
Volume One includes the interviews from the following seniors:
Armstrong, Allen
Bisson, Ruby Madeline (née Simmons)
Caldwell, Alvin Manley
Calvert, John
Carson, Russell Garnett
Chamberlin, Frances Lillian (née Melitzer)
Desjardins, Raymonde Donalda (née Paiement)
Field, Dora (née Foley)
Fielder, Elsie (née Barker)
Foley, Gwendolyn Mary (née Walker)
Gilboe, Margaret Sylvia (née Sumbler)
Giles, Melville David
Hobbs, Walter Thornloe
Houston, John Hartley
Jarvis, William Hager
Jarvis, Mary Elizabeth (née Wright)
Jenkinson, Henry John
Josefowich, Tom Phillip
Kemp, Frank Edward
Kenty, Harold Arthur
Leslie, Bogart Norman
Maddock, Elsie Ashmore (née Arnold)
Malick, Florence (née Pirie)
Mason, Mabel Edith (née Overton)
McLaren, Peter Bertrum Dalton
McLaren, William David Ivan
Messenger, Donald Morgan
Peters, Roy Albert
Pipe, Robert Findlater
Pollard, Douglas Charles
Pringle, Edra Beatrice
Reid, Charles Douglas
Scully, Maurice Joseph (Father)
Seymour, Annie Farish Caruthers Shankland
Shortt, Ann May (née McKee)
Smith, Gwendolyn (née Bonney)
Spangler, Hazel (née Pringle)
Taylor, Wadie Bernadetta Theresa (née Kulakoski)
Wadge, Bessie Gertrude (née Jibb)
Walton, Harley Gillette
