The Great Fire of 1922
Compiled by the 75th Anniversary of the Great Fire of 1922 Committee
Now Out of Print (July 2010)
Those, who lived through the tragic event of October 4th, 1922, had an opportunity to reunite with old friends and acquaintances in the fall of 1997 as the 75th Anniversary Committee of The Great Fire in conjunction with the Haileybury Heritage Museum hosted a weekend of events to commemorate October 4, 1922.
The Haileybury Heritage Museum received numerous personal recollections of the Fire from both the survivors who participated in the commemoration and those who were unable to attend. As a result, the Birth Anniversary Committee decided to compile a book of these reminiscences so that future generations could understand and appreciate the impact that the Great Fire of 1922 had on the communities it affected.
Our objective was not to write a comprehensive history of the Fire, rather, to collect and compile the recollections of those who experienced devastation and loss, their struggles to rebuild, as well as some of the humourous anecdotes along the way. Unfortunately, due to space limitations and to avoid repetition, we were unable to use all of the stories that were submitted, however, these will be stored in the Museum's permanent collection and will be made available to both the researcher and the general public.
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Go here for a look at the Index | Go here for a map of the area covered by the Fire
ISBN: 0-88954-413-1 |Hard Cover | 11 x 8.5" inches approximately | 412 pages. many illustrations, sketches and photographs | $39.95
Now Out of Print (July 2010)
Table of Contents
Dedication
Map of Area Destroyed by Great Fire of 1922
Map from George L. Cassidy's book "Arrow North"
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Foreword
1 The 75th Anniversary Weekend
2. The Tours --Eastern Fire Route Tour ...
3. The Tours: Western Fire Route Tour
4. The Survivors' Stories ~Sudbury, Elk Lake, Robillard Township
5. The Survivors' Stories ~Charlton Area, Englehart
6. The Survivors' Stories ~Armstrong Township, Brentha, Earlton, Evanturel Township, Heaslip
7. The Survivors' Stories ~Brethour Township, Couttsville, Hilliard Township, Hilliardton, Whitewood Grove
8. The Survivors' Stories ~Harley Township, Thornloe Area
9. The Survivors' Stories ~Harley Township, Henwood Township, Kenabeek Township, Kerns Township, Maybrook, Quebec
10. The Survivors' Stories ~Harris Township, Hudson Township, Dymond Township, New Liskeard
11. The Survivors' Stories ~Clover Valley, West Road - Haileybury
12. The Survivors' Stories ~Haileybury - Brewster Street, Browning Street, Champlain Street, Lake Shore Road, Latchford Street, Niven Street, Seton Street
Illustrations
Reproduction of a painting by M. Markovich
Map - The Great Fire of 1922
Map - Wind directions and velocities
75th Anniversary Committee welcoming the survivors Survivors with a tour bus
Survivors in the 75th Anniversary Parade
Setting out the stakes for the bus tours
Survivor Irene Lemay with her certificates
Elta Little holding afghan for raffle
Tillie Reid holding afghan for raffle
Thanking the survivors at dinner - October 4, 1997
Alarm bell
Survivors looking through the October 1922 ruins
Copy of certificate presented to survivors
Haileybury High School
Map 1 -New Liskeard
Map 2 - Dymond Township
Map 3 - Harley Township
Map 4 - Hilliard Township
Government bridge crossing White River at Hilliardton
Homestead Church in Harris Township
Map 5 - Hilliardton School House Brethour Township
Map 6 -Casey Township The Afleen
Map 7 - Harris Township
Professor John Sharp
Bishop's Palace
Grand Union Hotel
The McCamus House
Judge Henry Hartman's House
Map 8 - New Liskeard west of the tracks . .
New Liskeard after the 1922 Fire
West of the tracks in New Liskeard - Circa 1923
Lady Minto, Hospital in New Liskeard
Map 9 - Dymond Township
Thomas Chester
Map 10 -Hudson Township
Map I I - Kerns Township
McCool Union Church
Kenabeek Community Hall
Map 12 - Henwood Township
Map 13 - Cane Township
Plaque at Chariton Power House .
Chariton Power House after 1922 Fire
Map 14 - Charlton
Savard School Bus
Map 15 - Evanturel Township
Englehart & Area Museum with Volunteer Fire Department
.Trinity United Church
Map 16 - Kerns & Armstrong Township
.J. Morrow farm after 1922 Fire
Map 17 - West Road, Bucke Township - Circa 1912
David Attwater & John Andrews
The Attwaters on new bridge in Robillard Township - Circa 1923
The Newton-Whites & Attwaters - Circa Summer of 1923
Main Street in Charlton in 1912
Mary Frances & Charles Saunders - Circa 1940
Charlton after 1922 Fire
Sewing machine receipt of Nat Oslund
Billie Weeks & his Gray-Dort Roadster
Billie Weeks fording the River after the 1922 Fire .
Billie Weeks in his Gray-Dort Roadster - Circa 1922
Englehart after 1922 Fire
One of the streetcar homes - Circa 1922-23
Marc, Rosaire & Armand Savoie - Circa October 5, 1922
Kirbyson Relief House near Earlton
Jim, Reg & Ellen Stubbs - Circa 1906
George, Amy, Millie, Charlie, Len, Emily & Phyllis Tucker - Circa 1919
First bridge over the White River at Hilliardton - Circa 1910
Gabrielle, Jeanne, Lucien, Corinne, Albert, Ulric, Emile & Blanche Favron- Circa 1938
Dollard Favron -Circa 1910
Joel Veilleux, Carole Favron, Irene 0 Reilly & Marie Favron At Ducks Unlimited Canada - Circa 1997
Whitewood Grove School (S. S. No. I Hilliard) - Circa 1923
Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Chrysler - Circa August 1929
Students at Whitewood Grove School
Students with Miss Marjorie Hogg at Whitewood Grove School
Gramophone of Osborne Keff
Whitewood Grove Sunday School Picnic - Circa 1912
Thornloe Village Children
Kathleen Ross & Foster Rice
Mrs. Maud Moddle with her family's new Ford Model T
Thornloe after the 1922 Fire
Sadie (Bourton) Hewitt & her daughters, Helen & Joyce
Jenny, Mary Belle, William, Frank, Allan, Ethel, Jean & Louise Foster -Circa 1917
Emily Batty with Kenabeek School Students - Circa 1915
Phyllis, Josie, Nellie, Winnie, Fanny, Lucy, Mary Jane, Ruby & Phillip Janes-August 1938
Mabel (Wilson) Smith
Barn on Burnett farm
Calamity Gulch Bridge - Circa 1924
J. H. Sumbler in front of burned greenhouse - October 1922
Clover Valley School Children - Spring of 1922
Convent & Holy Cross Cathedral ruins
Looking south on Ferguson Avenue
Jim & Sid Graham - September 19, 1937
Nelson farm
Georgina "Ding" Blackwall at age 13 - October 5, 1922
Clover Valley School before the 1922 Fire
Haileybury before the 1922 Fire
Elizabeth Dickson's cast iron pot, cup and saucer
Seymour Family Wedgewood cup & cream pitcher
Brent Wilson - Circa 1925
Phillip Henry Jory
George Caldbick
One of the temporary streetcar homes
George George's house
Students at Convent - Circa 1922 (before the fire)
Interior of the Convent - Circa 1922
Rose S lywchuk -Circa 1922
Kathleen, Marion, Mrs. R. P. MacGregor Alma, Peggy, Norma, Norman &Mr.R.PMacGregor
Freash MeatMarket
Haileybury Public School
A. F. Grozelle & Frank Hoard in front of boxcar
Funeral of Gervais Sutherland
A Streetcar Home in Haileybury After the 1922 Fire
Ruins of Ed Hargreaves home
Mrs. R. J. Russell & her daughter, Majorie
Last graduation class at Sisters of Providence Hospital - Circa 1922
Haileybury - Looking down Main Street toward the Lake
George Hoppins, Mrs. Welsh & Mrs. Welsh's sister
Twisted rails North Cobalt
Haileybury ruins - October 4, 1922
Remains of train station, Haileybury
Sisters of Providence Hospital, Haileybury
Arrival of Red Cross Nurses at Mines Hospital, Cobalt
Presbyterian Church ruins
Gervais Sutherland
Funeral of Gervais Sutherland
Captain Nelson
St. Paul's Anglican Church
First soup kitchen & relief station in Haileybury
The Armouries after the 1922 Fire
Osborne Kerr modeling relief clothes - Circa 1923
Old cars for the North - October 12, 1922
Jim
Streetcar home
Streetcar No. 124 in the 75th Anniversary Parade
Building of barn on Ayotte (Leng) farm, Dymond Township
Courthouse under reconstruction - Circa 1923
Temporary train station
Methodist Church Royal Bank reopens beside the tracks,
Haileybury Salvation Army Citadel ruins,
.Haileybury Ruins of Preston's Store S. S. No. 3 Hilliard School - Pre- 1922
S. S. No. 2 Hilliard School - Circa 1923
Thornloe House - Built after 1922 Fire Haileybury fire engine remains on . Main Street
Haileybury Fire Brigade - Circa 1906
Stearnpowered fire pumper
Barry Hewitt & Harold Sadler on the Ruggles Dorothy Houston delivering speech - October 4, 1972
.The plaque erected on October 4, 1972
Mary Abraham
Charles Burnett
George Dukovac
Harold & Elizabeth Hie
.Hartley Houston
Dan Lavigne
.Dave McLaren
.Susan Noakes
Christopher Oslund, Co-chair
Walter Oslund
Eileen Pritchard
C. B. 'Bud' Shaver, Co-chair
.Irene Shaver
Len Tucker
Patricia Wilson, Co-chair
.Map from George L. Cassidy's book "Arrow North"