The Fossmill Story: Life in a Railway Lumbering Village on the Edge of Algonquin Park

Archive

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Northern Ontario Railroad Museum and Heritage Centre

Name/Title

The Fossmill Story: Life in a Railway Lumbering Village on the Edge of Algonquin Park

Entry/Object ID

2021.797.01

Tags

Logging History, Lumber History, Fossmill, Ontario, Algonquin Park, Railway History, Canadian Pacific, Indigenous History

Scope and Content

Book detailing the history of Fossmill ON and how the town was founded.

Context

The village was founded by the lumbering boom and of course the emergence of the railroad. By the 1920s the town was prospering but fell into a decline during the Great Depression. Contains oral history accounts as well as archival materials.

Collection

District of Nipissing Collection, Canadian Pacific History

Cataloged By

Matthew Gill

Category

Secondary Source

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Archive Details

Creator

Doug Mackey, Paul Mackey, Past Forward Heritage Limited

Date(s) of Creation

circa 1990

Primary Language

English

Archive Items Details

Title

The Fossmill Story: Life in a Railway Lumbering Village on the Edge of Algonquin Park

Description

Book detailing the history of Fossmill ON and how the town was founded.

Creator

Doug Mackey, Paul Mackey

Date(s) of Creation

1999

Subjects

History, Railways, Logging, Lumber, Lumber camps, Rural areas, Rural life, Settlements, Land development, Industrial development, Indigenous peoples

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Ghost Town

Fossmill, Ontario

Township

Chisholm, Ontario

District

District of Nipissing

State/Province

Ontario

Country

Canada

Continent

North America

Provincial Park

Algonquin Provincial Park

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Item Number (Assigned from FileMaker)

Other Number

26390

Number Type

ISBN Number

Other Number

1-896974-10-4

Dimensions

Width

11 in

Length

8-1/2 in

Location

Location

Shelf

Ontario History Section (City or Town Specific)

Room

Dale Wilson Reference Library

Building

NORMHC Heritage Centre, Northern Ontario Railroad Museum and Heritage Centre

* Untyped Location

Capreol, Ontario

Category

Storage

Date

January 17, 2022

Condition

Reason for Exam

At Acquisition

Overall Condition

Very Good

Condition Detail

Fold, Crazing

Date Examined

Jan 17, 2022

Examined By

Kat Bezaire

Materials

paper, ink, plastic, binding

Notes

The item has two stickers on it, the one is a price sticker, the other is an award sticker from the Ontario Historical Society

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Past Forward Heritage Limited

Owner/Agent

Past Forward Heritage Limited

Deaccession

Deaccession

Duplicate Item

Notes

The duplicate copy was deaccessioned on July 6th, 2021

General Notes

Note Type

Cataloging Note

Note

Originally cataloged on July 20th, 2015 by Matthew Gill, re-cataloged on January 17th, 2022 by Kat Bezaire

Created By

normhclibrary@gmail.com

Create Date

January 17, 2022

Updated By

normhclibrary@gmail.com

Update Date

January 17, 2022