Our town

my impression of Pembroke b4 i watch this.... the Murray brothers' were local merchants with political power. Canada Central Railway ( Duncan McIntyre group ) had run rail to this area and to Mattawa ( Timmins family base ) from Carleton ( Smith's Falls ) and originally from Cornwall and Brockville in the 1850's. In 1881 McIntyre sold to McDonalds government and CCR became the Eastern Division of the CPr which was created a corporation in 1881ish. They sent Worthington on a mission to extend the CP line to Sturgeon Falls and then to a site near the 1850's Salter mineral observation ( Sudbury Junction by 1884 ). Flanagan ( CPr geologist surveyor ) hit on a claim near the junction and they sold it to the Murray who sold it to the HH Vivian group. Murray mine was the first exploited mine in the Sudbury basin. Pembroke was also the home base of the little known Ferland who produced Arthur Ferland who married Louise Timmins as his story moved towards Nelson, BC ( where Alexander Donald Smith ( made Lord Strathcona in the 1890's ) put in the commemorative spike of the completed CP in 1885 while Shaughnessy, Van Horne and others watch on..). He would help the engineers build the western infrastructure along the CP before returning to Ontario where he and the Timmins bought mining claims in the silver and gold sites along the watershed. Ferland lived in North Bay ( wealthy district ) while his mine near Cobalt ( Nipissing Silver ) was very successful. Point being he was a Pembroke boy living in North Bay which was being developed by John Ferguson who was the nephew of Duncan McIntyre. Meanwhile the Murray had built an hotel in North Bay and ( i think ) Flanagan also built one. ... and the Timmins went further north and made their mark on Timmins after investing in the Hollinger claim. Follow the rabbit down the hole even deeper and this story leads to the son of Ferland and to a priest who became the curator of a parish in the Sudbury area while the Sault Ste Marie diocese was being created. The office of this diocese was never in SSMarie. Bishops of the SS Marie diocese always ruled from the Pro Cathedral in North Bay... !!!! now ... wonder how this 1980 film presents Pembroke ?

afterthoughts... well that was a very polite version of the story of Pembroke !!!

6:51 "still continuing" haha not anymore

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