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Red Rock/ Nipigon
The French Cruise Ship " Le Champlain " made her last visit to the area Wednesday at Silver Islet for the 2024 Season . I was able to capture her in 3 of the 4 anchorages they chose to give the passengers a close up of our Northern Beauty. Silver Islet , Red Rock , Rossport / Battle Island , and Terrace Bay / The Slate Islands (which I was unable to get to ) . I've added a little narative to the individual photos.
If you enlarge & look to the left towards the distant hills you will see the town of Nipigon , the Towers of the Suspension Bridge over the Nipigon River and near the white patch on the lower part of the distant bluff is Indigenous Drawings/ Pictographs that you can only see from the water.
Red Rock is a township in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, located in the Thunder Bay District. The community of Red Rock sits on the shore of Lake Superior, just south of where the Nipigon River drains into Nipigon Bay on the north shore of Lake Superior. The population as of 2021 is 895.
The Red Rock Folk Festival, held by the Live From the Rock Folk & Blues Society, is held each year.[2]
History
The Canadian Pacific Railway was built through the area in the 1880s. The first permanent settlers were Finnish homesteaders. Around 1920, its first school was built. That same decade, the Nipigon Highway was built, providing road access to the farming community.[3]
In 1937, construction began on a paper mill, along with a new town site for employee homes and bunkhouses. Also built that same year were the Quebec Lodge for company officials and the Red Rock Inn. But the mill company went bankrupt in 1938, and the project was abandoned.[3]
In 1940, the mill site was bought by the Canadian Government, who converted the bunkhouses into a prisoner-of-war camp, known as Camp "R". It housed German soldiers, merchant seamen, and even German Jews, the first of which arrived in July 1940. Guards and officers lived at the Red Rock Inn or in the few houses that had already been built. In October 1941, all prisoners were transferred to other internment camps and the site was closed.[4]
In 1942, a new pulp and paper company bought the site and construction of a mill began again in 1944. On July 20, 1945, the community was incorporated as the Improvement District of Red Rock. That same year, the mill became operational. The town grew with new stores, a theatre, a public school, two railroad stations, and a church.[5] In the 1950s, the mill changed ownership and expanded, further increasing the town's population. In 1961, the mill became part of the newsprint and container board division of Domtar.[6]
In 1980, the place was incorporated as a township with elected reeve and council. Its first reeve was Douglas McAllen.[6]
In the 1990s, operations and workforce at the mill were reduced, and in 2006, it shut down permanently.[7] See less
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Red Rock/ Nipigon
The French Cruise Ship " Le Champlain " made her last visit to the area Wednesday at Silver Islet for the 2024 Season . I was able to capture her in 3 of the 4 anchorages they chose to give the passengers a close up of our Northern Beauty. Silver Islet , Red Rock , Rossport / Battle Island , and Terrace Bay / The Slate Islands (which I was unable to get to ) . I've added a little narative to the individual photos.
If you enlarge & look to the left towards the distant hills you will see the town of Nipigon , the Towers of the Suspension Bridge over the Nipigon River and near the white patch on the lower part of the distant bluff is Indigenous Drawings/ Pictographs that you can only see from the water.
Red Rock is a township in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, located in the Thunder Bay District. The community of Red Rock sits on the shore of Lake Superior, just south of where the Nipigon River drains into Nipigon Bay on the north shore of Lake Superior. The population as of 2021 is 895.
The Red Rock Folk Festival, held by the Live From the Rock Folk & Blues Society, is held each year.[2]
History
The Canadian Pacific Railway was built through the area in the 1880s. The first permanent settlers were Finnish homesteaders. Around 1920, its first school was built. That same decade, the Nipigon Highway was built, providing road access to the farming community.[3]
In 1937, construction began on a paper mill, along with a new town site for employee homes and bunkhouses. Also built that same year were the Quebec Lodge for company officials and the Red Rock Inn. But the mill company went bankrupt in 1938, and the project was abandoned.[3]
In 1940, the mill site was bought by the Canadian Government, who converted the bunkhouses into a prisoner-of-war camp, known as Camp "R". It housed German soldiers, merchant seamen, and even German Jews, the first of which arrived in July 1940. Guards and officers lived at the Red Rock Inn or in the few houses that had already been built. In October 1941, all prisoners were transferred to other internment camps and the site was closed.[4]
In 1942, a new pulp and paper company bought the site and construction of a mill began again in 1944. On July 20, 1945, the community was incorporated as the Improvement District of Red Rock. That same year, the mill became operational. The town grew with new stores, a theatre, a public school, two railroad stations, and a church.[5] In the 1950s, the mill changed ownership and expanded, further increasing the town's population. In 1961, the mill became part of the newsprint and container board division of Domtar.[6]
In 1980, the place was incorporated as a township with elected reeve and council. Its first reeve was Douglas McAllen.[6]
In the 1990s, operations and workforce at the mill were reduced, and in 2006, it shut down permanently.[7] See less