Cheers! To Our Northland

Archive

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Northern Ontario Railroad Museum and Heritage Centre

Name/Title

Cheers! To Our Northland

Entry/Object ID

2022.65.01

Tags

Kenora, Ontario, Red Lake, Ontario, Northern Ontario, Hunting and Trapping, Indigenous History

Scope and Content

Book describing the author's (Conrad Hanson) personal experience living and exploring the Red Lake and Kenora areas during the 1920s.

Context

The author had traveled up to Red Lake during the Gold Rush of the 1920s. The book discusses his experiences living in the bush, in a log cabin in a fairly rural and uninhabited area. The book is broken down into 18 chapters, they are as follows: 1. Cheers! To Our Northland 2. Red Lake, April 1926 3. Tenderfeet Exploring 4. Winter Campfire 5. Fresh Meat on the Hoof 6. Unscrambling and Getting Set 7. Enter Old Alec 8. Abandonment 9. The Truth About Young Pan's Crime 10. Personalities of that Time 11. Bear versus Fish 12. Mining as I Saw It 13. Dogs Come into Their Own 14. The Dog 15. Indian (Indigenous) Murder 16. George Dole 17. Humour as it Happened 18. Cheers! To Our Northland

Collection

District of Kenora, Northern Ontario History

Cataloged By

unknown

Category

Secondary Source

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Memoir

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Literary Works

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Archive Details

Creator

Conrad H. Hanson

Date(s) of Creation

circa 1920

Primary Language

English

Archive Items Details

Title

Cheers! To Our Northland

Description

Book describing the author's (Conrad Hanson) personal experience living and exploring the Red Lake and Kenora areas during the 1920s.

Creator

Conrad H. Hanson

Subjects

History, Camping, Log cabins, Logging, Prospecting, Gold mining, Mining, Indigenous peoples

Notes

Date of publication not listed

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Town

Red Lake, Ontario

District

District of Kenora

State/Province

Ontario

Country

Canada

Continent

North America

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Item Number (Assigned from FileMaker)

Other Number

1284

Dimensions

Width

5-1/2 in

Length

8-3/4 in

Location

Category

Storage

Date

January 18, 2022

Condition

Reason for Exam

At Acquisition

Overall Condition

Good

Condition Detail

Creasing

Date Examined

Jan 18, 2022

Examined By

Kat Bezaire

Materials

paper, ink, binding

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Ontario History (Town or City Specific)

General Notes

Note Type

Cataloging Note

Note

Originally cataloged by an unknown user, re-cataloged on January 18th, 2022 by Kat Bezaire

Created By

normhclibrary@gmail.com

Create Date

January 18, 2022

Updated By

normhclibrary@gmail.com

Update Date

January 18, 2022