Lost Hope Mine

10/22/2026

10/19/2026

Advert from a magazine circa the 1970’s; everything old is new again 🍁⚡️

10/13/2026

10/10/2026

Happy Thanksgiving tout le monde 🇨🇦 Bonne l’action de grâce!

Taking a minute today to say thanks. Thanks to the prospectors, the old-timers, and the families who built Kirkland Lake and Cobalt, the ones who walked this ground long before us with a pick and a lot of grit. Merci, truly.

We’re also thankful for the folks following along as we dig into the history of our four Ontario projects and take a modern look at old ground. Kirkland West, Marshall’s Corners, American Bulldog and Silverside’s all started with someone’s curiosity, and yours keeps us going.

Hope your weekend is full of good food, good people, and maybe a little fall colour hunting in the bush. Take care out there! 🦃

10/04/2026

More newly rediscovered photos from the archives photo credits to R. Dufresne; Otto Township 1989

10/04/2026

This fire destroyed Toms Town and Marshall’s Corners; certainly a big setback for all industry in Northeastern Ontario at the time 🍁

🔥 Remembering October 4, 1922 🔥

One hundred and four years ago today, the Great Fire swept across the Temiskaming District. Fanned by high winds after a long dry season, flames raced through bush, farms and settlements, from Englehart in the north to Elk Lake in the west, and across Lake Temiskaming into Quebec, reaching Notre-Dame-du-Nord and Nédélec. At the southern-most end, the fire raged through North Cobalt and then the wind changed direction and carried the fire toward the lake.

Haileybury was the hardest hit. Much of the town was reduced to ashes in a matter of hours. Families fled for their lives, with many seeking safety in Lake Temiskaming.

But what followed is just as much a part of our story. Neighbours opened their doors, communities shared what they had, and aid poured in from across the province. Together, the region rebuilt, determined to rise again.

At the Haileybury Heritage Museum, we are proud to help keep those stories alive: the memories, the photographs and the resilience of the families who lived through it. Many of us carry a piece of that history in our own family stories.

💬 Do you have a story, photo or keepsake connected to the 1922 fire?

Moma Markovic presented this painting to Haileybury to commemorate the Great Fire of 1922.

Follow this link to see more of his artwork. https://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/goac/moma_markovich.aspx

09/30/2026

Today we pause for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 🧡

Our work takes us through old workings, historic drill logs and land with a long story. But that land has been cared for and lived on by Indigenous peoples since long before any claim map. The Southern Abitibi and Timiskaming region, where our projects are, sits on their traditional territories.

For anyone working in or around mining, that means listening first, learning the real history (including the hard parts), and doing better. Reconciliation isn't a one day thing, it's ongoing.

Today we're wearing orange, reading, and remembering the children who never came home, and the survivors and families who carry that truth. Chaque enfant compte.