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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM216M_jean-nicolet_North-Bay-Ontario.html
Born in France about 1598, this explorer, fur trader and interpreter came to Canada in 1608. Under orders from Samuel de Champlain, he spent the following two years with the Algonquins of Allumette Island. He was then sent to the Nipissing Indians…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM216K_la-vase-portages_North-Bay-Ontario.html
The historic La Vase (Mud) Portages began at the head of the nearby pond. These three portages, connecting Trout Lake and the lower La Vase River, were linked by small navigable streams and ponds. They formed part of the great canoe route via the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2168_the-reverend-charles-alfred-marie-paradis_Verner-Ontario.html
Born in Kamouraska County, Québec, Paradis studied at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière College and taught art in Ottawa. Following his ordination in 1881 he was posted to Lake Timiskaming as missionary of the Oblate Congregation. Paradis' trave…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2165_the-founding-of-sturgeon-falls_West-Nipissing-Ontario.html
The development of Sturgeon Falls began in 1881 with the arrival of Canadian Pacific Railway constructions teams and the opening of a post office. About a year earlier the community's first permanent settler, James Holditch, had acquired land here…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2161_reverend-silas-huntington_North-Bay-Ontario.html
A zealous Methodist missionary descended from an early New England family, Huntington was born in Kemptville. With his ordination in 1854 he commenced a long Christian ministry, serving various congregations in eastern Ontario and Quebec until 188…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM215X_the-ontario-northland-railway_North-Bay-Ontario.html
In 1900 the Ontario Government ordered a survey for a railway from North Bay to the head of Lake Timiskaming to encourage settlement and provide access to mineral deposits. Construction of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway began in 1902…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-25fa5_the-mattawa-route_Mattawa-Ontario.html
When west-bound voyageurs left the Ottawa here at Mattawa, "the forks," they faced 11 portages in the next 40 miles. The Mattawa, or Petite-Rivière, was a key link in the historic canoe route between Montréal and the upper Great Lakes and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-cd2e9_mattawa-house-1837_Mattawa-Ontario.html
Trading in furs at this junction of historic canoe routes probably began during the French regime. At intervals during the 1820's and 1830's Chief Trader John Siveright, commanding the Hudson's Bay Company's post at Fort Coulonge, sent men to trad…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-a3ed1_french-canadian-settlement-and-the-cpr-in-the-mattawa-area_Mattawa-Ontario.html
Francophone settlement rapidly increased in the Mattawa area with the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in 1881. During construction of the rail line, the local economy benefitted from the presence of thousands of French-Canadian worke…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-c0dff_canoe-route-to-the-west_Mattawa-Ontario.html
Here, when the canoe was the principal means of travel, explorers, voyageurs, missionaries and others bound for the West, left the Ottawa River and followed the Mattawa River to Lake Nipissing, the French River and the upper Great Lakes. For over …