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Howey Brothers Campsite March 1926 |
1926
Let me fill you in on a little history about the life, times and history of the Red Lake area before I tell you the story about my Grandfather Gus Dupont and how he and his family came to be in Red Lake, Ontario, Canada.
When news of the Howey brothers' gold deposit discovery, reached the outside world in March 1926, newspapers from across the continent and abroad sent reporters to Red Lake, Ontario, Canada to cover the story.
The following excerpt is from an issue of "Popular Mechanics": "With airplanes roaring overhead and dog teams mushing across frozen lakes below, the wildest gold stampede since the Klondike gold rush days is drawing hundreds of adventurous prospectors into the wilds of Northern Ontario.
Spurred by the reports of a rich gold strike on Red Lake, 160 miles northwest of Hudson, Ontario, Canada, which was the nearest railroad station to Red Lake, adventurers from all parts of Canada and the United States flocked to the scene.
Hudson Ontario, Canada circa 1926The trails lead across frozen lakes and rivers, through virgin wilderness inhabited only by an occasional aboriginal or non-aboriginal fur trapper.
News spread fast through the wilderness. Prospectors are pouring in by the hundreds and the shores of Red Lake are staked as far as the eye can see. They're arriving by dog teams and on snow shoes.
In their wake comes the first airplane, which could travel in one hour what takes others twelve days to cover overland. Those which come by plane are faring better than the hundreds who are mushing in on foot. Sleds are being pulled by hand, some are tramping in with packs on their backs and others are hitching horses to toboggans and sleighs.
The future of flying in the north is now assured. This gold rush will go down into history as the first gold stampede in which airplanes were used.
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H. Farrington and first passenger planes to Red Lake, Circa 1926To the little poplar trees that stud the shoreline, dogs are chained, prick eared huskies, collie curs, nondescript mongrels of intricate ancestry, fish eaters and self-scratchers. They fill the air with a doleful sound, the collies yelping shrilly, the huskies unable to bark, rousing the echoes with that wailing ululation that resembles the cry of neither dog nor wolf.
Through this chorus of mourning rings another song, the tapping of steel upon rock.
It explains this whole northland spectacle, for it is the noise of the samplers, patiently chipping channels across the wide band of quartz
were Lorne Howey had struck gold.
Norseman( Noorduyn) monument to the History of Air Travel to Red Lake (Norseman Capital of the World)RED LAKE 
Red Lake Circa 1926
Red Lake Circa 1927
Red Lake Circa 1936
Red Lake Present DayToday the Red Lake area is well known, for mining, logging, hunting, fishing and tourism.
Howey Bay Camp on the Shore of Howey Bay, Red Lake, Ontario, Canada
MILE MARKER
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