We are focusing on a newsy front page of the Northern Times in this week’s look at local and area history.
The Wednesday, January 27th 1965 edition has a story about the Northeastern Ontario Municipal Association deciding to renew the port study on Moosonee. The group formed a new committee that included Kap town councillor George Maybury after learning that a mineral deposit north of Cochrane near the Ontario Northland railway is bigger than first thought. That deposit is now known as Detour Lake.
There is also a story about the Kapuskasing Fire Department winning a provincial competition for the annual fire prevention contest. The department also finished 26th in all of Canada that featured 362 participants. T
he district high school board announced that its new chairman was Kap resident A.E. Belanger.
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