WAWA LOCATIONS 2

This was a rock slide on the Hawk Road along Wawa Lake. A bulldozer is clearing the fallen rock from the road.

The rock slide has been cleared enough to allow traffic to pass through.

This is Hawk Road along Wawa Lake. The construction of the road was pretty rudimentary.

This another view of Hawk Road along Wawa Lake.

This is view of Highway 101 along Wawa Lake at approximately the same location as the previous photo.

This photo was taken in 1965 at the east end of Wawa Lake, when Highway 101 was under construction. The road was not paved until the following year.

(Photo provided by Eric Sillanpaa)

Everybody grows up on a street. My street was First Avenue. I took this picture in 1960 in front of our house. At the end of the street is the Sir James Dunn School yard. The north end of First Avenue continued on the north side of the school yard.

This is the same view taken August 2001 of the previous photograph.

I took this picture at the same time as the other one. There were only a few houses on the west side of the street. The white house on the right side of the picture belonged to the Rouse's. On the left side of the picture, there are two large towers. They belonged to the Lands and Forest (Ministry of Natural Resources) and were installed there in the early fifties.

This is the same view taken August 2001 of the previous photograph.

This photograph was probably taken around 1955 and shows the right-of-way having been cut for Trans Canada Highway.

This is the T-C Highway taken August 2001 at the same location as the previous picture.

This boat is tied up just inside mouth of the Michipicoten River at the rock beside the present boathouse belonging to the former Algoma Steel Lodge. If you look closely, you will see the Old Government Dock and its buildings in the far background as well as other buildings on the promontory, across the causeway/drive that goes to the present day, Naturally Superior Adventures office and lodge. You can't see the water of the Government Dock bay because it is between the causeway and Government Dock. (This information was provided by Kaireen Morrison.)

The dock in the previous photograph had a boathouse built on it.

This is the Magpie River above the scenic Magpie High Falls. The river was dammed in the 1990's to build a head pond for a hydro power station. On the right of the photograph is the top of the High Falls.

This picture was taken August 2001 at the former junction of the ACR spur leading to the right into the Sir James Open Pit Mine. The tracks have been removed between Michipicoten Harbour and Hawk Junction. Notice how sparse the vegetation is. This is because, this area was in the prevailing smoke plume of sulfur dioxide from the Sinter Plant.

This photo was taken in 1965 when the "Teddy Park" was relatively new.

(Photo provided by Eric Sillanpaa)