Claybelt Tapestry
Weaving the Past
Volume 1
Claybelt Tapestry is a collection of little-known or forgotten happenings, endeavours and businesses in the early South Temiskaming District. Many businesses or institutions are no longer with us, and so documenting their existence provides a unique view into the area's history.
Knowledge of many of these little-known or forgotten happenings, endeavours and businesses in the early South Temiskaming District is now only remembered by a ever-decreasing number of seniors. The files of the Temiskaming Speaker were invaluable in chronicling some of these activities.
No attempt was made to re-write some stories. The Fire of 1922 is covered extensively in the book The Great Fire of 1922 [ISBN: 0-88954-413-1]. Northern Telephone's history is covered in Northern CallingThe Northern Connection: Ontario Northland Since 1902 [ISBN 0-921801-83-1]; and A Century of Travel On The Ontario Northland Railway [ISBN 0-9730521-1-2].
The Museum has shared what we know so that many of these stories are not totally forgotten. Any corrections or additional information can be sent to the Museum, where we can keep the documentation together, preserving our past as accurately as we can.
If you would like to order one, download this PDF form and mail it in with payment, or call a Museum director at 705-647-5580 or 705-679-5555 to get your copy. They are available at the Museum's Gift Shop, open in the summer while the Museum is open, other times by appointment. Available year round online at White Mountain Publications, and in store at 50 Silver Street, Cobalt, ON
Table of Contents | Index for this volume
ISBN: 978-0-9921605-0-0| 8½" x 11" | 114 pages | 168 photos, maps and illustrations | trade paperback | $30.00
Table of Contents
3 Introduction
6 ALERTS Running Club
8 Camp Lorrain
11 Canada Hotel
14 Andrew Carnegie Library - New Liskeard
18 Cenotaph - War Memorial
21 Cobalt Market
22 Earlton Airport
25 Wreck of the Eldorado
29 Energite Explosives Company
31 Ferguson Highway
34 Fort Temiskaming (Temiscamingue )
37 Frisby's Cement Block Factory
38 Gillies Airport
39 Haileybury Airport
40 Hill-Clark-Francis Limited
44 Hydro Electric Power Developments in the Cobalt - Kirkland Lake - Timmins Areas
48 The Land of the Stunted Poplar
49 The Lime Kiln
51 Marjorie Herridge United Church School Home
53 Ms Claybelt
54 New Liskeard Airport
55 New Liskeard Clock Factory
56 New Liskeard Creamery
58 New Liskeard Market
59 New Toronto
62 Nipissing Central Railway
66 Northern Lites Marina
68 Old Mission
71 Grand Opera House
73 Park Royal
76 The Perrin Shocker
78 Pete's Dam
80 New Liskeard Ladies Philharmonic Choir
83 Pioneer Picnics
85 Ragged Chutes
87 Canadian War Rations Coupons, WWII
89 Sherman Mine, Temagami, Ontario
92 The Splint Factory
95 Spur Line
97 Temiskaming Junior Farmers and 4-H Clubs
101 Thornloe Cheese Factory
104 Timiskaming Canning Company
107 Women's Institute
109 Wabi Settlement Map 1891-1900