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Kirkland Lake is a town and municipality in Timiskaming District of Northeastern Ontario.The 2021 population, according to Statistics Canada, was 7,750. [1]The community name was based on a nearby lake which in turn was named after Winnifred Kirkland, a secretary of the Ontario Department of Mines in Toronto.
The Museum of Northern History is a historic house museum [1] located in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada with more than 10,000 artifacts (photographs, objects, etc.) highlighting the social, cultural and industrial history of the Kirkland Lake region, with a particular focus in relation to mining. The museum is located in the Sir Harry Oakes ...
The Lake Shore Mine is a gold mine located in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. In July 1912, Harry Oakes staked claims L-2605-6 which were in the lake itself and had reverted for non-performance of work. On September 6, 1912, he registered the transfer of claim L-1557 that Melville McDougall had staked for Oakes previously.
HMCS Kirkland Lake was a River-class frigate that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She served primarily as a convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named for Kirkland Lake, Ontario. Originally named St. Jerome, [1] she was ordered in June 1942 as part of the 1942–1943 River-class building program.
Today it is within the municipal boundaries of Kirkland Lake, Ontario. [1] It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names. [2] Swastika is a junction on the Ontario Northland Railway, where a branch to Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec leaves the ONR's main line from North Bay, Ontario to Moosonee.
The Miners Monument in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. The Kirkland Lake Miners' Memorial is a memorial in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, dedicated to the city's mining labourers.. During the 1930s the town's seven great gold mines (Macassa, Tough-Oaks, Kirkland Lake Gold, Lakeshore, Wright-Hargreaves, Teck-Hughes and Sylvanite) provided one million dollars to the province's economy and employed 4, 640 workers.
View history; General ... The Kirkland Lake kimberlite field is a 165 to 152 million year old kimberlite field in the Kirkland Lake area of northeastern Ontario, ...
The Wright-Hargreaves Mine is a gold mine located in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. [1] In late July 1911, Bill Wright and his brother-in-law Ed Hargreaves discovered the first visible gold in what would later become the Kirkland Lake camp. [2] In 1913 the No. 1 shaft was sunk to a depth of 85 feet (26 metres).