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Nice postcard showing wooden houses and others being built in the town of Haileybury in Northern Ontario.
This area was near the site of the Cobalt Silver Mining rush. Interesting that the postcard defines the area as 'New Ontario'.
Labeled ‘Haileybury, New Ont.’
Published by Harry Walsh, Haileybury, New Ont.
Message says in French "Astorville by Callender (Ontario)..." Town SE of North Bay.
Postmarked ASTORVILLE ONT JUN 03 08 on 2 x 1 cent Edward VII stamps, mailed to France
Some slight corner damages.
Haileybury was founded in 1889 by Charles Cobbold Farr. Haileybury was formally incorporated as a town in 1904. Farr encouraged settlement in the area, penning his own promotional pamphlet, entitled "The Lake Temiskamingue District", in an effort to attract new settlers to the region. Marketed to settlers as prime agricultural land, Haileybury had only a handful of residents until the arrival of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway in the early 1900s, and the subsequent discovery of large silver deposits in neighboring Cobalt in 1903. During the Cobalt Silver Rush, Haileybury became a 'bedroom community' that served the needs of the many miners and, most famously, many mine owners and managers. These mine managers and owners were responsible for the construction of the row of stately homes, nicknamed 'Millionaire's Row' that stretched along the waterfront.
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