Memoir of Leslie McFarlane's childhood arrival in the silver-boom town of Haileybury, Ontario, in 1910, capturing the era's rapid growth and excitement through a boy's perspective.
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Memoir of Leslie McFarlane's childhood arrival in the silver-boom town of Haileybury, Ontario, in 1910, capturing the era's rapid growth and excitement through a boy's perspective.
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Haileybury was a boom town in 1910, the year the kid arrived. The timber and farm wealth of Tomiskaming had been suddenly multiplied by the riches from the Cobalt silver strike. The railway was through, heading north to gold. Dreams ran high, and there was money to indulge them. Haileybury blossomed with fine hotels, fancy clothes, splendid mansions, circuses, court houses, and a national league hockey team. Those were heady days. The kid was Leslie McFarlane, then age eight years. He went on in...
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