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      The method of transport used in the construction of the highway to Red Lake was by 'scow'. This lake barge carried trucks from Sioux Lookout to Ear Falls. Trucks were driven off one scow and loaded onto another scow to take them to English River. Before the highway, water transportation …

      Gravel trucks owned by Morris Waywenko at one of the many gravel pits used to provide fill for the road to Red Lake.

      Heavy equipment such as those shown in this picture had to be floated in by scow before they could begin the task of road building. Here, a gravel truck is being loaded at one of the gravel pits near Red Lake.

      Heavy equipment arriving at Pakwash Bay for highway construction to Red Lake in 1946. Photo of tugboat and caterpillar tractor on the shores of Pakwash Bay.

      A lonely stretch of highway on the way to Red Lake, surrounded by spruce forests. Before the highway, travel and shipping were done by the water systems or by air. The road to Red Lake required the clearing of 1325 acres of land, and the excavation of 400,000 cubic yards …

      Photograph of Gene Campbell, Red Lake, 1974. Eugenia Nadia Campbell (1910-1989), long resident of the Red Lake District, known as "Gramma Gene". She was the widow of George Whitney Campbell, one of the founders of Campbell Red Lake Mines, Limited.

      Photograph of Matti Hakala, Red Lake, December 1974.

      This is the shaft house at God's Lake gold mines taken in 1942.

      This was taken of my high grade operation at the Horseshoe Mine in June 1943. The bags contain gold and copper concentrates which I shipped to Trail, B.C., June 1943

      Map housed at the Brodie Resource Library

      Map housed at the Brodie Resource Library

      Map housed at the Brodie Resource Library

      A view of Red Lake.

      A view of the Generating Station for Hydro Electric Power in Red Lake.

      A view of industry in Red Lake.

      A photograph of Johann Antonius (Hans) Pokolm, Red Lake, December 1974. Born at Danzig, Germany in 1905, Hans was a pioneer and notable character of Red Lake, Ontario.

      Map housed at the Brodie Resource Library

      Please see accompanying East Half of map on separate record. Map housed at the Brodie Resource Library

      Please see accompanying West Half of map on separate record. Map housed at the Brodie Resource Library

      Map housed at the Brodie Resource Library