Jackfish Coal Dock - Coal Boat Unloading
Description
- Creator
- Edwin Nicol
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- From the early 1900's till the mid-forties, Jackfish was the major centre for the distribution of coal in Northwestern Ontario as seen in this black and white photo. The steamships would come from the United States loaded with coal and provisions and unload at the 600 ft. trestle at Jackfish, Ontario. A crew of 300 men would work eighteen hours a day until the ship was unloaded by hand. In turn, the steamship would take shipments of fish caught by the fishermen at Jackfish, for sale in the United States or Canada.
- Date of Original
- ~1940
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- TerBPL:P126
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 48.78731 Longitude: -86.95855
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
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