History of Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada

Name: Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada
Address: Kirkland Lake, ON, Canada

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Kirkland Lake, Ont, incorporated as a town in 1972... The Town of Kirkland Lake is located 241 km northwest of North Bay. Named after a secretary in the Ontario Department of Mines, Winnifred Kirkland, the lake around which the town grew has been filled with the tailings of the GOLD mines that brought the town to prominence. Sir Harry OAKES was not the first prospector into the district in the summer of 1911, but he and others such as Bill Wright and the Tough brothers were responsible for discovering and developing the gold mines (Lake Shore, Wright Hargreaves, Kirkland Minerals) that were the basis for the town's growth and prosperity during the 1920s and 1930s.

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Along the "Mile of Gold"
Kirkland Lake, Ont.
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1912 - January 8, 1912 - "Tough-Oakes-Burnside" (Toburn) mine
Harry Oakes and the Tough brothers snowshoe six miles through the dark and -40F cold from Swastika and at midnight start staking the expired...Read MORE...
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Sylvanite Gold Mines, Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada
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Kirkland Lake Collegiate and Vocational School
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1932 - Église de l’Assomption-de-la-Bienheureuse-Vierge-Marie and Church of the Holy Name of Jesus both established at Kirkland Lake

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Church of the Holy Name of Jesus
39 Kirkland St. W, Kirkland Lake, ONTARIO
Established 1932
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Lakeshore Gold Mines, Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada.
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Red Cross Hospital
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1941 - Gold Miner's Strike
"On 18 November 1941, the gold miners of Kirkland lake struck for union recognition. The Kirkland Lake strike was a bitter struggle between the mine...Read MORE...