Wednesday, 9 October 2013

24,000 Pageviews just slipped past

Thank you very much for reading the Nipigon Historical Museum's Archives' Blog Posts.
Lots of you are finding answers  and some are asking questions that sometimes I can answer.

Sunday, 15 September 2013

23,000 PAGEVIEWS, PASSED

While I was making apple pies the Pageviews mounted up, so,
 sometime around last Thursday we passed the 23,000 mark.
THANK YOU to all our readers.

Saturday, 24 August 2013

THE SEVEN MEN - GRAVES, MAYBE

GRAVES OF SEVEN MEN BLOWN UP IN DYNAMITE ACCIDENT
NIPIGON ONTARIO
NO DATE GIVEN
 

THIS SLIDE WAS JUST SCANNED FROM OUR ARCHIVES . AUGUST 24, 2013


I PRESUME IT GOES WITH THE GRUESOME JOURNEY AND SEVEN MEN FOR ST. MARY'S POSTS

HOWEVER, WE HAVE FOUR CROSSES  FROM THAT BURIAL (1909) IN OUR MUSEUM AND THIS PHOTO SHOWS GRAVE STONES.

THE CROSSES WERE IN ST. MARY'S SHED.

NO SEVEN HEADSTONES EXIST IN ST. MARY'S GRAVEYARD. HOWEVER THERE WAS A PROBLEM WITH HEADSTONES FALLING OVER SOME YEARS BACK SO THEY MAY HAVE BEEN REMOVED.

LAKE NIPIGON - OLD PHOTOS

THESE ARE ASSORTED OLD PHOTOS THAT "BUZZ" LEIN COPIED  FROM "SOMEWHERE". Notice that Nipigon gets an "e" in place of the first "i".

NEPIGON CHURCH LAKE NEPIGON


CANOES WITH BAGGAGE STARTING OFF
LAKE NEPIGON


ON THE WAY TO THE WHITE CHUTES


NEGIGOOSHTEQUAN, LAKE NEPIGON


FLAT ROCK PORTAGE ON LAKE HANNAH TO LAKE NIPIGON

FAMILY IN FRONT OF DWELLING


HUDSON BAY COMPANY POST , LAKE NIPIGON

Thursday, 22 August 2013

22,000 PAGEVIEWS AUG. 22, 2013

Thank You readers around the world.

 Special thanks to the "Wood Pusher" readers who jumped the Pageviews by a considerable amount this past week.

Welcome to new member D. Hope you continue to enjoy our archives.

Tuesday, 20 August 2013

KINGFISHER, AT REST

TUG KINGFISHER AT REST IN THUNDER BAY MISSION ISLAND AREA

TUG KINGFISHER

Thursday, 15 August 2013

NIPIGON MUSEUM NEW MURAL

August 14, 2013 SHOUT MEDIA of Thunder Bay installed the photographic mural on the front of the Nipigon Historical Museum.

Mixing old and new images.

Completed mural.

People are stopping to look, but will they come inside?
We hope.