“Miners on Site”
Lesia Dayneka
| While having
coffee with
the local miners, they would often lament that they were not
acknowledged. The mine structure would be made into monuments,
but never the individual working the rock. I saw the monument that Sudbury made in honour of their miners, which is awesome. So I tried to get pictures of early prospectors and their mine shafts. The prospectors wore fedoras, jodhpurs, and leather boots laced to just below the knee. On site, the shaft would be hand dug, drilled and dynamited. Logs were brought in by horse-drawn sledge. These logs were hand hewn as there were no chain saws in those days. Mail and information in the winter would be brought in by dog team. Their accommodations were tents and log dug out cabins. After work they did not have a warm shower and bedroom to go to. They also had to cook for themselves. |
 
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Dr.
Jeffries, a dentist from Sioux Lookout, came in by dog team to
service the men. Medical doctors and nurses came in a set up tent
hospitals until a log building coud be built.
My father came here in 1933 to work in the mines and brought in his family in 1936. I was born in Iroquois Falls.
My father came here in 1933 to work in the mines and brought in his family in 1936. I was born in Iroquois Falls.
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