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Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, February 8, 1984, page 5 community NEWS Duplicate Bridge Club Duplicate bridge was held Sunday, January 29th at Holy Angels School. There were 31% tables in play and the results were as _ fol- lows: Ist: P. Cebrario and G. Caccamo with 32.5 pts. 2nd: L. Fraser and D. Cooper with 27.0 pts. 3rd: B. McLaughlin and Y. Cebrario wit 26.5 pts. : Beginning Feb. 3, duplicate bridge will be held on Friday even- ings at Holy Angels School in Schreiber. If you like bridge, you'll love duplicate! Come on out and give it a try. For further informa- tion, call Jackie Bell at 825-9465. Bridge tables are in short supply, so if you own one, please bring it along. Bicentennial meeting The Schreiber Bicen- tennial Celebrations Committee will meet Thursday, February 9, 1984, 7:00 p.m. at the Recreation Complex Meeting Room. Any Schreiber resi- dent interested in learn- ing more about the "Bi- centennial Celebra- tions' is cordially in- vited to attend. New members are also need- ed for this Committee. So come out and get involved. For additional infor- mation please contact the Recreation Co-ordi- nator at 824-2317. Winter Carnival meeting The Schreiber Parks and Recreation Com- - mittee is staging the final 1984 Schreiber Winter Carnival Public Meeting on Thursday, February 23, 1984, 7:00 p-m. at the Recreation Complex Meeting Room. To date, a number of local groups and or- ganizations are going to be contributing to- wards this special com- munity event. Should you wish to become involved or should you just be inter- ested in hearing about the Winter Carnival plans, then please drop by. For more informa- tion, contact the Rec- reation Co-ordinator at 824-2317. Schreiber Minor Hockey Attention Minor Hockey parents and Schreiber residents. The Schreiber Minor Hockey Executive meets Monday, Febru- ary 13, 1984, 7:30 p.m. at the Recreation Com- plex Meeting Room 2. You are cordially invit- ed to attend this meet- ing. For more information please contact the Presi- dent Ian Fummerton. Terrace Bay Fire Report by ROLLY MOQUIN Deputy Fire Chief The Terrace Bay Fire Dept. reports three (3) fire call outs for the month of January. All three fires were chimney fires. _ Jan. 2nd - 11:45 a.m. - 69 Terrace Heights; Jan. 13th; 5:21 p.m. - 47 Superior Ave.; Jan. 17th - 9:30 a.m. - 9 Terrace Heights. A fire drill was on Jan. 17th with a film on Fire Supervision Sys- tems on Heavy Equip- ment Vehicles. Mr. Doug Stefurak of the Rossport Local Ser- vice Board toured the Terrace Bay Fire Hall. Mr. Steve Badger, the newest member of the Fire Dept. has been put on the standard 3 month probation period. For the interest in fire safety: Most people tend to use only one door in their homes during the winter months, whether it be the front door or back door. If you use your back door more of- ten, make sure you keep your front door clear of snow. Remember, this door is part of your fire escape route. New ambulance system for Thunder Bay A new 2.5 million dollars ambulance radio system was announced today for the Thunder Bay District. It will cover approximately 64,000 square kilometres, pro- viding air and land am- bulance coverage to all areas along major high- ways in Northwestern Ontario. The 'project was. an- nounced today by Health Minister Keith Norton. It will be phased in over the next three years, funded by the Ministry of Health. The system is the second phase of the health Ministry's North- ern Ontario ambulance radio system (NOARS) the first of which was completed for the Sault Ste. Marie district last spring. Mr. Norton said, "The whole NOARS concept is based on the premise that radio con- tact has been difficult and often impossible north of Lake Superior continued on page 19 MINING - A historic heritage of the North Shore people by ANNE TODESCO The wonderful min- eral wealth of Canada can hardly be estimat- ed as the great mining resources of our great Dominion have only just recently begun to be developed on a larger scale in our area. The great gold find at Hemlo has encouraged min- ing companies to move into the area. From fol- lowing the news media, there is a possibility that eventually the old find- ings along the north shore of Lake Superior from Silver Island, the Lakehead areas, Ross- port, Pays Plat, Schrei- ber and Geraldton might be hooked up to the new findings. The first settlers com- ing into our part of Ca- nada were forced to be- come _ agriculturists in order to secure enough food to serve with their wild meat. They had to hunt for a supply of meat such as rabbits, birds, bears, deer, moose and of course, store away large sup- plies of fish. In the winter the meat and fish had to be kept frozen or smoked, as well as kegs of salted fish and meat. If jars or crocks were available, supplies would be canned or pick- led. As the population grew, exploratory expe- ditions were planned; the great hidden trea- sures were discovered. With the improved transportation of today, helicopters, planes, snow machines, etc., have taken over from the canoes, boats, snow- shoes, horses mode of travel. The mining in- dustry has been de- veloped into the sec- ond most important ind- ustry of Canada. Much activity has been car- ried on in the mining fields; now we have a promise of future min- ing history being made in our district. Canada ranks first in the world's production of nickel, third in chrom- ite, fourth in- gold and silver. This ratio could be changing as the years slip by. Gold was first discovered in British Columbia along the Fra- ser, Thompson, and Columbia Rivers in 1858. A few years later in 1878, the largest gold rush was made in the Yukon. People came from all over the world to take part in these very rich gold findings. An- other rich gold-find was made at Porcupine in Northern Ontario. Co- balt also came in for its share of riches and pub- licity when silver min- ing was developed on a large scale along the shores of Lake Super- ior in 1866. Nickel was located in 1856 in the Sudbury area with the Murray Mine being the first nickel mine put into production. The first site of nickel found, was supposedly noticed on the blasting operation during the construct- ion of the C.P.R. in 1881-1883. Mining includes all the methods and pro- cesses involved in ob- taining useful materials from the earth known as various types of ore. Mining is purely an ex- traction process; that is, taking metals from ore. This procedure is called 'The Science of Metal- lurgy". The sad part of mining is that there can be no replacement of ore once it is taken from the earth. They do not grow or develop again like reforestation or the re- stocking of fish for fut- ure generations. With the develop- ment of the human race, the knowledge of min- ing has increased. Na- tive copper in this area was used by the Indians to make tools, or to barter with the white man. It was also held in great reverence by the Indian people. Substan- ces are classified as metal fuel and quarry stone. A good exam- ple of a quarry is the remains of an old quar- ry located in the late 1800's on an island at the entrance to our har- bour. It was from that great hump of an is- land known as Quarry Island after that oper- ation, that stone was taken by barge and used to build bridges, road beds, building and headstones. A "placer mine" is the washing of ore in nuggets out of scoops of sand, like in British Columbia. These gold nuggets were deposited by the glaciers thou- sands of years ago. Underground mining is the building of tunnels and shafts to follow a vein of ore. There are several signs in an ore body or vein that prospectors follow. Hére are a few; an oily spot seen on the ground may be an out- cropping of a vein; a rusty place or a strip of unusually rich or poor vegetation, can call at- tention to an ore depo- sit spot. Today geolo- gists and their know- ledge, as scientific ex- perts, are a big help to large companies in esti- mating the value and quantity of ore found. Core drilling forms a basis for fairly accurate estimates of the quality of ore expected at a location. Shafts are sunk and mills are construct- ed through time. Sev- eral hundred men are employed at the Hemlo area and a small com- munity has sprung up in the surrounding wild- erness. In looking over some notes gathered, a French man by the name of Master Simon dis- covered some valuable ore in Canada around 1604, but the location of these deposits is un- known. In a news item it appears that houses, apartment buildings and a skating rink are all available at these new town sites and several business establish- ments are in operation or have applied for per- mission to open up a business. An airport is on the planning board and airway companies Legislation to ban leg-hold traps on land Ed Philip, M.P.P. Etobicoke (N.D.P.) sub- mitted a Bill to the Ontario Legislative As- sembly entitled "An Act to amend the Game and Fish Act" which is a significant improvement over the existing Game and Fish Act for the following reasons: 1. The leg-hold trap will be banned for use on land, the situation in which the most cruel suffering is imposed on animals. 2. The leg-hold trap may still be used to trap only wolf, fox and coyote on land but the trap jaws must be. padded or otherwise rendered more humane as desig- nated by the Minister. 3. Muskrats, account- ing for approximate- ly 60 per cent of the 1,000,000 animals trap- ped in Ontario each year, would be required to be taken by either a quick-killing trap or by a drowning set as is now the case for beaver, otter and mink. 4. All traps will be prohibited for use by all persons in Ontario other than licenced trap- pers, farmers trapping on their own property or inexperienced users who may use _ unrestricted humane traps desig- nated by the Minister. At the present time, only body-gripping and leg-hold traps are regu- lated and the restrict- ions on use of traps do not apply north of the French River in cen- tral Ontario. 5. Traps will be re- quired to be inspected at least once each twenty- four hours south of the most northern C.N.R. line between Cochrane and Kenora, and at least once in every seventy- - two hours in zone 1 in northern Ontario where trap lines are too long to inspect daily. 6. Traps must be maintained in mechani- cally fit condition to avoid the cruelties aris- ing from poor jaw con- tact, weak springs or inadequate striking or clamping forces. 7. No person may possess or sell an oper- ative trap other than a trapper, farmer, dealer have applied to offer rail services. Small mining opera- tions have been in the area since early 1860 but many records of these mines on shore or is- lands have been lost or have left scanty rec- ords. Some of the tra- velling priests and mis- sionaries had a lot of this -- information but were lost in their travels. or a collector. 8. The owner must identify his trap by name or number. 9. A trap exchange program may be estab- lished by the Minister trading leg-hold traps and old Conibear traps for new modified Coni- bear traps. of meter Schreiber Hydro Customer NOTICE NOTICE Due to the illness of our meter reader in January a large number readings estimated. Please accept our apology. This will correct itself on next months reading. were service. Which RRSP Should You Choose? There is wide range of plans and benefits that deserve personalized Mary Cashmore Terrace Bay, Ont. 825-9152 Plata é&y Momill ested oth. 'countants 'Bookkeeping, accounting, auditing, consulting and taxation services. Squier Street Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B 4A8 Telephone: (807) 344-6684 ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. & Mrs. Zbigniew (Rudy) Gerlach and Mr. Mrs. Merton Burrows are happy to announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of NANCY and SCOTT The marriage will take place in Terrace Bay on March 17, 1984. Get your lifein shape. | wie fe: segs et