Mining Archives | Opportunity on the Mile of Gold: How Diversity Shaped Kirkland Lake

Miners Underground

A snapshot taken by Gordon Henderson, a miner at the Lake Shore Mine. The two men are working around the 3,000 or 4,000 foot level underground.

View of Kirkland Lake from Teck-Hughes Mine

The lake the town is named after is seen on the left side of the photograph. The photo was taken from the Teck-Hughes Mine property. The Lake Shore […]

Drilling 3,200 Feet Underground at Kirkland Lake Gold Mine

J. Bridle, J. Smaltz, and P.J. Harris (4th man unknown) drilling at the 3,200 foot level in the Kirkland Lake Gold Mine. They drilled two rounds in one […]

Rail delivery of mining machinery

Railcars at the Swastika station have hoists and boilers aboard. Until another branch of the T&NO was built to take these large pieces of mining machinery to Kirkland […]

Pamphlet for silver mines of Cobalt

The front cover of this pamphlet from 1910 reads: The Eldorado of New Ontario: Cobalt The Rich New Silver District and Porcupine – Where Rich Gold Discoveries Are […]

Sylvanite Miners after shift

This photo of miners from the Sylvanite was taken during the 1930s, but the men with their work clothes, lamps and lunch boxes look identical to the mine […]

National Geographic mentions gold boom of Kirkland Lake

The original article from 1932 that appeared in National Geographic was printed word-for-word in a 1960s edition of the Northern Daily News. This includes some of the derogatory […]

Hoping for a Day’s Work

A scene at the gate of the Wright-Hargreaves Mine during the Depression. Unemployed men are standing in a crowd, waiting for the guard to call out their name […]

“We’re Sticking to Our Union”

The Miner’s Strike lasted the winter of 1941-42, but was doomed to fail almost from the very beginning. The miners goal was for union recognition, but the mine […]

Iron Mining in Gold Country

Adams Mine officially opened in 1963 and brought hundreds of new mining jobs to the Kirkland Lake area over the next three decades. Unlike the hard rock gold […]

Macassa Mine Rescue Team, 1957

Mining is hazardous work, and to prevent fatalities underground, each mine had its own rescue team. These men wore breathing apparatus and were trained to remove injured miners […]

Prospecting in “New Ontario”

Prospecting in Northeastern Ontario meant long hours in an unforgiving remote environment. Most areas had to be explored either by foot or accessed by water. Sandy McIntyre (left) […]