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Retired miner catalogues the past
Donald Parrott, a 65 year old retired miner living near Thunder Bay, chronicles Red Lake Ontario’s mining boom from 1926 to 1936. He details Lorne Howey and George Campbell, the Campbell Red Lake Mine, air transport, and the region’s wartime decline and postwar life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Parrott
Red Lake
Ontario
Don
Harbor View Terrace
Chronicle Journal
G.B. Weiler
Jellico
George Whitney Campbell
Red Lake District
Lorne Howey
Howey
Lakehead
Rockies
Howey Bay
Hudson
CNR
Campbell Red
Gold Pines
Sioux Lookout
Harold Farring
Western Canada Airways
Cox
Presbyterian Church
Gene
Campbell
George
Campbells
Stinson
Travelair
Kenora
Hell’s Acres
Avon
Author Parrott
Gene Campbell