Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – One school, two schools, three schools…By the time Marg Villneff and a research committee completed their work, they had uncovered 63 schools once in operation from Gillies Limit south of Cobalt to the Hilliard-Beauchamp boundary.And they were only the English-language
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Gordon Bowes: Infantry and wireless specialist in WWII
Women of letters
Pen pals corresponding 55 yearsDiane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – A schoolgirl’s letter more than half a century ago began a conversation that has stood the test of time.Bonnie Moore was a ten-year-old New Liskeard student in 1960 when she began writing to Heather Stewart, then
Our young people’s future
Dear Editor:I remember in the late 1940’s, when the Eaton Stove Works closed its doors putting over 100 men out of work.Like an animal that has lost too much of its habitat, the giant wood cookstoves were cast aside often with glee, and replaced by electric stoves.
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Letter to the Editor
Memories of that schoolDear Editor:I noticed in The Speaker a building that Lloyd “Strad” Wilson says was a school.It was also the home of the Second New Liskeard Scout Troop.I, along with Jim Grant and many others, started that troop.It began about 1957.My dad,
History buff tells his own story
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Clair Shepherdson spent years combing through records to trace his family’s genealogy.The exercise prompted the New Liskeard man to examine his own past.“I kept complaining because my grandfather and my parents never wrote anything down about their history. I thought I should put my money