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    The Howey Gold Mines open stope to surface in 1940. Open pit mining was practiced at Howey Gold Mine until a shaft pillar collapsed and the ground caved in. Howey Gold Mine closed the mine down forev

    Prospectors - standing on a gold vein. The claim is KRL200077. This is part of his claim that the prospector is working on now. This picture was taken in the 1940's.

    Howey Gold Mine - mine operations - Open pit Mining. 1940. Red Lake District

    A seasoned miner standing beside his steam powered diamond drill at Howey Gold Mine, an example of open pit mining, 1940. Red Lake District.

    Howey gold Mine- mine operations - open pit mining 1940. Red Lake District.

    Open Pit mining operations. Red Lake District.

    An excellent example of open pit mining at Howey Mine, Red Lake, Ontario in 1940. Howey Mine was closed due to a collapse of the shaft pillar, leaving hundreds unemployed in the town. However a few y

    Open pit mining operations - 1940 - Red Lake District

    Two unidentified miners working the open pit operations at Howey Gold Mine, Red Lake, Ontario.

    Ed Mumford, diamond driller for Howey Gold Mine, Red Lake, 1940. Howey Gold Mine began production in 1930, and continued for eleven years. It closed in 1941 due to a collapse in the shaft pillar in t

    Ed Mumford, diamond driller, working open pit mining operations at Howey Gold Mine, Red Lake, Ontario.

    Fourteen years after the claims were staked, the Cochenour-Willans mine went into full production in 1939, just before WWII. Cochenour-Willans Mine went on to produce gold until 1971 in Red Lake, Ont

    Entrance to the Howey Gold Mine near Red Lake, Ontario.

    Prisoners of war arriving in Red Rock by train from Quebec City and escorted by the Fort Garry Horse Regiment.

    Head gate for the dam at Ear Falls Generating Station being lifted by Gate Crane, assisted by unidentified worker. Photo was taken May 28, 1940. The head of a generating station is the difference bet

    Unidentified man standing in front of the Head Gate Crane which was used to regulate the flow of water to the dam, May 28,1940.

    Lifting a boom at the generating station during 1940's. The man in the photo is unidentified.

    Photo of a diving pump used to extract water during construction of the hydro plant on August 10, 1940's.

    Aerial view of Lac Seul Hydro Dam looking south, 1940's, Ear Falls Ontario. Work on this project began in the summer of 1928 and was completed in the spring of 1929.

    Canadian Pacific Railway locomotive class D10k was built in Montreal by the Montreal Locomotive works in October of 1912. It was used for weight/freight service on the Nipigon and Heron Bay subdivisi