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FIRST ANGLICAN RECTORY NIPIGON

 The corner of Second street and Riverview

First Anglican Rectory

The Hudson’s Bay Company sold this property to the Diocese of Algoma, Church of England in 1908 for the sum of two dollars so that a house could be built for the Anglican minister.  Using balloon construction with British Columbia  fir and nine –foot ceilings, it was  very modern for its time, boasting a full basement.

As well as being used as a residence for various clergymen and their families, between 1930 and 1938, the house was leased out as a detachment and barracks to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for $30 a month.  At that time, it was equipped with hydro and heated with three wood stoves.

A new rectory was built next to the Anglican Church, and this property was sold as a private home in 1956.  The house changed hands several times before the Horton family purchased it in 1975.  Nestled under the large trees, the house has retained its original charm while it has undergone modern improvements.

B. Satten 2003 A Historical Walk Through Nipigon

Red Rock Post

 

Red Rock House

The first permanent trading post  in the area was established by Claude Greysolon Dulhut  in 1678 near the location of the present railway bridge. Some 180 years later , the Hudson’s Bay Company  built Red Rock Post  to stop independent  fur traders from heading upstream.  Archaeological  evidence indicates  that this early post may have  consisted of three small log cabins.

In the early 1870’s, Chief Trader Robert Crawford, believing that red Rock Post would become  the terminus  of the Canadian Pacific Railway, set about an ambitious building program.  By 1872 he had overseen construction of a wharf 350 feet long by 52 feet wide.  Soon followed a farm with  house, stable and out buildings , a powder magazine, a men’s house, a trade store complex, boat houses, warehouse, machine sheds and a large eight-room officer’s living quarters.  The living quarters were built in Gothic Revival style with ornate gingerbread designs under  the eaves of the high peaked roof, complete with veranda,  attached kitchen, summer kitchen and wood shed.

Although Red Rock House did not become the railway terminus, it became increasingly important as a cargo trans-shipment point, with goods shipped by steamboat to be distributed throughout the Lake Nipigon hinterland.

B. Satten 2003.  A Historical Walk Through Nipigon

Why Forestry Matters

 

Just Naturally Speaking                 by Betty Jean Brill  Nipigon  July 5, 2010

 

Why Forestry Matters

 

“We, Canadians, acknowledging that we are depositories of diverse social, cultural and natural riches are resolved to build a country that safeguards its natural environment and USES IT rationally and responsibly to ensure prosperity for generations to come.”

 

The Preamble (I) to A Renewed Canada, the Report of the Special Joint Committee of the Senate and the House of Commons, February 28, 1992. pp. 126-127. (the capitals are mine)

 

Let us flash back to 1944 when the Canadian Legion Educational Service was creating vocational courses for Service Personnel. One course they chose was “Forestry”.

 

“It is noteworthy that in every forest region there persists a forest industry, even though the first logging may go back three centuries.”(End quote from p. 65.)

 

They stress that logging should be considered a permanent occupation for Canadians.  To back that up they point out there is a growing school of thought that considers “ forest crops as renewable and therefore perpetual and it is essential that forests be so treated.”

(page 63)

 

Seventy years ago they were not thinking of their life cycle deep carbon footprint but they were well aware of just what logging meant.  They expressed it this way:

 

“ Logging comprises all the technique of harvesting timber for commercial use.  In general, the word is used to include the job of opening up an area of timber by roads, the making of such other improvements or structures as are required, the cutting of the timber, its assembly from stump to first point of transport, loading and hauling and dumping, and very often its delivery to the mill or market by the most favourable method.”

(page 61)

 

Forest products constituted our first major export.  They supplied cheap housing materials and fuel.  They helped the development of railways into new areas by providing freight more quickly than agriculture could.

 

“Logging shaped the national character of Canadians by demanding industry and courage, self-reliance and ingenuity.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 1945 the Woodlands Section of Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, Montreal, published a little booklet called “Pointers to Woods Workers”.  Their preface was:

 

“Forest Conservation means careful, wise use of forests.  A woods worker’s part in this is of great importance to all, as the forest benefits everybody.  Take care of it.   Avoid waste.”

 

“Your work depends on the forest.  Treated well, it will continue to give work for generations.  Abused, the forest will not renew itself properly; even if it does come back it will be poor.”

 

“You can do a lot for forest conservation by preserving young growth of valuable kinds,  by being very careful with fire and by avoiding waste of good wood.”

 

In 1940 the merchantable accessible timber in Canada was estimated at a total (softwoods and hardwoods) of 211,656,000,000 cubic feet.  They figured another 100,000,000,000 cubic feet was rated not commercially accessible.

 

Flash forward to 2006.  The National Timber Inventory total tree volume on forest land was 47,957.07 million cubic metres.

 

Converting that to cubic feet we get 1,693,555,969,980 cubic feet.  Even if you dropped off a few lower age classes of trees, it looks like we still have more wood after seventy years of cutting than we had to start with.

 

Flash back to 1999, Philadelphia, The PEW Charitable Trusts: PEW Environmental Group:  They began to craft a strategy for Canada’s great boreal wilderness as part of their campaign to conserve intact old-growth forests.  They found Canada’s far reaching expanse of publicly owned forest and taiga a “ particularly ripe opportunity.”  Their Goal – one hundred million acres by the year 2010.

 

From 1999 to 2006 the PEW ‘ invested’ $35.4 million dollars in Canada.

 

They had 60,000,000 acres ‘protected’ by 2006.

 

They got their Goal, 100,000,000 acres ‘protected’ in 2007- three years ahead of schedule.

 

Basking in their success they had their campaign evaluated.  The evaluators asked Steve Kallick, the director of the Boreal Conservation Campaign, “How did you know what areas were important to protect?” He couldn’t answer because he had no idea scientifically why they did it. Unfazed, he said the evaluation had shown they needed to support better science.

 

 

How did this ‘foreign power’ manipulate our governments and industries into signing away our rights to use our natural resources in one hundred million acres of our boreal?  They explain it all on their websites. They developed and consistently projected a clear and compelling message that created a sense of urgency regarding the need to protect specific tracts of wilderness and then continued to extend their reach.

 

PEW takes credit for prompting the Manitoba government to create the ten million acre, pristine boreal forest World Heritage Site.

 

The Ivey Foundation (London, Ontario) takes credit for the creation and passing of the Species At Risk Act last year.  Their boast is that the foundation has an excellent political reach which it is not afraid to use.

 

The Ivey Foundation is one of the ENGO signatories of the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement of May 18, 2010.

 

PEW is one of the nine Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations that signed the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement of May 18, 2010 – 29 million hectares and counting.

 

Counting- an additional 200 million acres of Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec are expected to be designated as parks and refuges pending the fulfillment of previously made commitments.

 

Two interesting covenants that charitable organizations have to sign in the U.S.A.:

4.a. The corporation shall not lobby, carry on propaganda or other wise attempt to influence legislation…

4.b. Cannot participate in any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition of any candidate for public office.

 

Maybe these covenants have no repercussions if used in a foreign land, but what about Ivey?  What about ForestEthics and their fomenting intolerance of resource industries?

 

Michael:

Was it really cooperation between the forest industries and the environmental groups when the ENGOs used language such as:

Leverage existing government legislation.

Influence upcoming regulations.

Transform attitudes and behaviour  to create conditions for positive government action.

Fiscal policy used as a strategic way to influence public and corporate decisions in support of conservation.

Act strategically to set legal precedents.

Discourage buyers.

National Focus to drive the process…ie., the FPAC to an agreement in exchange for supply certainty.

 

 

 

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Thank you all for reading our Nipigon area history since we began in 2011.

Our film "Destination Nipigon" by Thunderstryker films was shown at Dec 1, film festival in the Thunder Bay auditorium and well received .

It was a hot summer and the air conditioning unit was on the fritz so that limited the time visitors took to look at our displays.

We did have a fisherman who drove all the way from West Tennessee to see our World Record Brook Trout display (and me).  A nice surprise.

Nipigon Historical Museum as Art Gallery

 

Nipigon Historical Museum

As

An Art Gallery

Have you ever thought that?

During the two weeks

July 16 – 27

We will show you that we are.

Our summer staff can tour you around as our “art’ is everywhere.

With over 20 artists represented, plus  Those who walked this earth

“Before Present”

Even a superbly crafted stone tool is seen by us  today as a “work of art”, whereas 5000 years ago it was “Life or Death” to the maker.

For those who think they’ve seen it all, we have a Surprise:

A two week loan of a Super Dooper  painting to lure you back in.

 

POETRY IN MOTION

Ode to the Nipigon has been made into a Silent Movie style with black and white photos of the river given ACTION.

Done by Thunderstryker Films

2 versions  one with music and the other with voice.

If you can access Nipigon History facebook page  you can watch and listen to  my poem.

See the Nipigon River Rapids that were, seethe and boil and the waterfalls, now gone, plunge  !