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Monday, 15 September 2025

Pretty Catty part five conclusion by John Fisher 1949

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  TOP OF THE FENCE  Chapter one is over for Mr. Log… he’s prisoner now in a raft… and he has 60 miles to go  down Lake Nipigon… towed by tug...
Sunday, 14 September 2025

GUTS AND GRACE part four of PRETTY CATTY by John Fisher 1049

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  GUTS AND GRACE As far as Port Arthur goes  this story starts in Lake Nipigon...that lovely lake beloved by moose hunters and fishermen.   ...
Saturday, 13 September 2025

Pretty Catty part three by John Fisher 1949

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  LIKE A BALLET DANCER That serves to introduce a former Maritimer Bob Matchett .  They say he is a “Pretty Catty”. He only weighs 160 pou...
Friday, 12 September 2025

Pretty Catty part two John Fisher 1949

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  ROUGH, BURLY, MAGNIFICENT Now, a Maritimer may eat a lot of herring bones and codfish and so on…but, they also feed on pride… and I  was...

Pretty Catty by John Fisher 1949 part one of five

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  “PRETTY CATTY” The People’s Paper Canada March 16, 1949 John Fisher Scans: “Pretty Catty” These men are rough and tough,  They...
Friday, 11 July 2025

Open Hours 2025

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 Nipigon Historical Museum Open Hours 2025 Monday to Friday July August 9-5
Sunday, 1 June 2025

Elsie Gagnon Interview 2006

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  NIPIGON HISTORICAL MUSEUM             March 28, 2006   Elsie Gagnon Resident of Nipigon Parents names: Ida and Ed Oja ? Siblin...
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